Analyst, Responsible Investment

Rest; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rest days

Parental leave

Learning & development

Income protection

Additional leave

Rest Excellence Awards

Job summary

Rest is Australia’s leading superannuation provider focused on long-term outcomes for its 2+ million members. The Analyst, Responsible Investment, will help integrate ESG considerations into investment decisions and support RI outcomes across the portfolio.

The role sits in a high-performing RI team, working at the intersection of sustainability and financial materiality to support private markets and overall fund stewardship.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated work experience in sustainability or responsible investment.
• Familiar with ESG metrics and reporting frameworks (PRI, ISSB, PCAF).
• Strong quantitative skills with ESG datasets.

Responsibilities

• Assist ESG data analysis, due diligence, and monitoring across investment strategies.
• Support development of RI tools, frameworks, and processes for portfolio monitoring.
• Help track ESG/climate data, trends, metrics and targets, incl. Sustainable Growth criteria.
• Assist with updating strategies, policies, and risk standards; draft sections for reports.

Skills

ESG analytics

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Financial acumen

Education

Related bachelor’s degree

Tools

ESG data platforms

Job description

We've been around since 1988, and today we're one of Australia's largest profit-to-member super funds.

That means everything we do is focused on delivering better outcomes for our members – not shareholders.

Please note we have 1 role available that can be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier

Job Description

At Rest, we help more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members — from their first job through to retirement*. Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That's how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

Join us as an Analyst, Responsible Investment, where you’ll help integrate ESG considerations into investment decisions and support responsible investment outcomes across our portfolio. This is your opportunity to make a real contribution to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a high-performing and highly collaborative Responsible Investments (RI) team for a universal owner and long-term investor across global markets.

The analyst will play an important role in supporting the implementation of Rest's responsible investment approach, including integrating the material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process and decisions, and supporting ESG integration and active ownership in Private Markets. This role will primarily operate at the intersection of sustainability and financial materiality across taking a whole of fund lens with a focus on private markets.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Assist with ESG data analysis, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring across a range of investment strategies.
• Assist with the development and implementation of responsible investment tools, frameworks, and processes to inform investment portfolio monitoring and decision-making
• Assist with the research, measurement, monitoring, analysis, and reporting on ESG and climate-related data, trends, metrics and targets, including the enhanced ESG criteria for the Sustainable Growth option
• Assist with the annual review, updating or uplifting of strategy, policies, protocols, and risk standards; draft relevant sections for reports, disclosures and other communications.
• Assist with the development of responsible investment questionnaires and disclosures that require internal coordination, e.g. RIAA, PRI, SuperRatings
• Coordinate and draft responses for external disclosures and communications, including preparation for assurance and audit activities.
• Enhance skills and knowledge of relevant industry standards, guidance and initiatives to improve capabilities internal and external to the organisation.
• Contributing to the overall effective operation of the RI&S team by delivering a consistently high standard of work in a timely manner, and contributing to any other relevant duties.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Business, Economics, Applied Finance, Environmental Science, Engineering or similar.
• ESG certifications and/or sustainability qualifications highly regarded.

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated work experience in a similar sustainability, responsible investment, financial services, consulting, or business role.
• Strong business acumen and familiarity with listed equities and/or fixed income.
• Working knowledge of ESG metrics, disclosure standards, reporting frameworks, sector benchmarks, and performance indices relating to responsible investment and sustainability (e.g., UN PRI, ISSB, PCAF).
• Strong quantitative skills, including experience identifying, collecting, processing, and generating large ESG datasets. Preferably familiar with ESG data and investment management systems.
• Working knowledge of carbon footprinting and awareness of climate-related scenario analysis and portfolio decarbonisation.
• Understanding of emerging themes, concepts, and trends in RI and sustainability, as well as how ESG factors can be integrated into investment decision-making to optimise risk-adjusted returns and advance sustainability outcomes.
• Attention to detail, strong intellectual curiosity, growth mindset and a passion for learning.
• A strong team player with a willingness and flexibility to support the RI&S team deliver against multiple and sometimes competing priorities

Additional Information

.What you'll find at Rest

• 5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave
• Eligible employees are entitled to22 weeks paid parental leave (gender neutral)
• Learning and development opportunities, including AI & Data Academy, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and professional memberships
• Income Protection Insurance
• Option to purchase additional leaveRecognition through our Rest Excellence Awards

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

We welcome applications from all candidates. To be considered, you will need the right to work in Australia.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2026. Rest is recognised as a superannuation leader across a range of areas including performance, responsible investment and member value. Find out more at https://rest.com.au/why-rest/awards .