Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
ASIC’s Virtual Experience
Australia, Online/remote
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What is this?
Welcome to ASIC’s Graduate Virtual Experience.
This activity has been developed by ASIC’s Data Science team within the Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO). The Data Science team in the CDAO functions as an internal consulting team for data analysis at ASIC. Other teams approach the CDAO for various data analytics needs. On a given day, an analyst in the CDAO team could working on an ad-hoc piece of data analysis on behalf of another team, or work on a larger project that helps other teams perform data analysis. These larger projects include building dashboards, auditing data pipelines, or use natural language processing to speed up the analysis of written documents.
Why should you do this?
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 2 to 4 hours to complete.
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a graduate at ASIC. Apply your engineering to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.
What skills will I gain?
Exercising your basic data manipulation skills
Learn simple slicing, dicing, filtering and manipulation
Have given thought to how data translates to insights in a financial context
What you will do?
Module 1: Entry Level - Charting and interpreting data (1 - 2 hours)
In this module, you will create a chart of financial advisor numbers and interpret the data
Module 2: Advanced: Research and Data Analysis (1 - 2 hours)
Analyse publicly available information on financial advisors to draw out key insights
Ready to get started?
Click Register to begin
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
Reviews
My role is to provide IT support to internal staff. My responsibilities include helping customers who need help, daily BAU health checks and writing code for new releases/bug fixes.
Generally providing legal advice and assisting in the conduct of litigation.
My day to day responsibilities varies with the team I work in - some teams have more demanding day-to-day responsibilities than others but there is always work to be found if sought
About the employer
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
4.2
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Government & Public Service
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator.
Pros and cons of working at Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Pros
The opportunities for development. They continually offer opportunities for personal and professional development.
15.4% super. You can join different societies such as Women in IT and Women in ASIC. Culture is very friendly, relaxed and helpful. Flexible working arrangements.
From day 1, I have felt supported to grow, learn and challenge myself in my work.
Great location. The Sydney office is close to Town Hall station, access to shops/food. Flexible - flex time, work from home, hot desking. Environment - atmosphere is welcoming/friendly, focus on diversity.
The breadth of interesting work available, Positive attitude towards graduates from managers and the broader organisation who are keen to involve graduates in the more interesting work, Reasonable working hours
Good work-life balance; unique, interesting, high-profile and challenging work that you can't do anywhere else.
Cons
Limited career progression
Sometimes bureaucracy slows the introduction of new work processes allowing us to be behind when compared to private sector
Processes and IT systems are slow and outdated.
Sometimes there isn't enough expectation on you to produce
Progression can be difficult because the promotions process is not simple.