Research Data Analyst – Institutional Equties recruitment
The Institutional Cash Equities business is part of the Institutional Equities and Debt Capital Markets group within Institutional Banking Markets. It provides equities broking services targeted at large Australian institutions (superannuation funds, insurance companies and investment managers) and Australian Corporates.
This role is responsible for providing analytical, reporting, statistical and campaign support to Institutional Cash Equities. Majority of the role resides under the direction of the Institutional Equity Research, assisting in the analysis of Bank's data for purposes of providing unique insights to Institutional clients. Part of the role resides under the direction of Equity Capital/Debt Markets (ECM/DCM), assisting with preparation of material for ECM pitches and post-deal market and customer analysis through the provision of data analytics and insights.
Role Purpose
- Interrogate Group Data Warehouse to extract relevant customer, product and market information.
- Provide insights by analyzing data from large data sets
- Prepare quality data feeds to relevant businesses.
- Assist in 'Special Projects' requiring data support such as new Product launches and ECM pitches
- Ensure that security and compliance requirements surrounding access to client and bank's information are met and followed
Key Accountabilities
- Providing assistance with scoping and documenting of data projects
- Ensuring that the Bank's framework for data access is followed at all times and making sure that all data supplied is compliant with the guidelines
- Developing the code required to deliver data projects and ensuring quality of output
- Creating relevant documentation to support data projects, including documenting all assumptions and statistical methods used in generating the outputs
- Producing and presenting relevant documentation and insights in support of the modelling and analytical process that clearly details the impacts to their business
- Business focused advanced analytics (database marketing, customer insights or product analytics) in support of ECM pitches
- Working with CommSec marketing personnel and IT programmers in managing the IPO centre on the CommSec website for ECM deals
Qualifications and Experience Required
Essential
- 2+ years of experience in data analytics is required, ideally within financial markets (Equities)
- Individuals with experience in database marketing, customer insights or product analysis are also going to be considered, but they have to demonstrate active interest in Equities
- Background in statistical analysis and econometrics is required. The candidate needs to have very good understanding of (at least) distributions, regressions and time series analysis.
- The candidate needs to have strong technical background in SQL programming (3 years +), experience with Microsoft Office products and be proficient in Excel VBA development.
- The candidate needs to be highly motivated, have strong problem solving skills and high attention to detail. They need to have keen interest in data analytics.
Preferred
- Experience with Teradata and statistical packages (S PLUS, Matlab) is preferred.
Please apply online to be considered for this position