Economist

1 week ago

Canberra, Australia Finity Full time

Role overview:
Finity is searching for an Economist to join our Consulting practice based in Canberra.
- We are looking for:
**About Finity**
Finity is the market leading actuarial consulting and strategic analytics firm in Australia and New Zealand. We are proud to have been recently acknowledged as ANZIIF Professional Services Firm of the Year for 2024. At Finity, we combine industry knowledge with technical analysis to offer innovative solutions and practical advice to our large client base. Our clients range from tech starts up through to large scale organisations across insurance, finance and government.

Our team of over 270 experts cover a diverse range of skills including; actuarial, analytics, technology, management consulting and support staff. Our consultants assist our clients with a wide range of banking & finance services including; pricing and customer & product insights, automation, risk & capital allocation, financial management, compliance & regulation and data science and analytics. Alongside our consulting work, we also develop a range of software products, offering our clients leading technology to navigate business challenges.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Working as a part of high performing team of problem solving
- Delivering firm wide capabilities across multi-disciplinary teams
- Conducting applied research on current issues
- Supporting wide array of modelling and analysis and report writing
- Areas of focus include economics, labour market modelling and analysis
- Delivering engagement within in a small team, working closely in the area of economics, climate change, labour market etc.
- Actively assisting the team in proposals and new pursuits

**Skills and Attributes**:

- 1-5 years experience in economics, finance or business analysis at Analyst and Consultant level depending on skills and experience
- Strong problem-solving abilities
- Undertake relevant economic research and writing reports on key findings
- Excellent numerical & analytical, teamwork and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to undertake qualitative or quantitative analysis to support projects.
- Analyse economic and financial information by using statistics, software or mathematical models
- Ability to engage with multi-task to meet engagement and stakeholder requirements
- Positive, collaborative and proactive work approach in a team
- Based in Canberra and able to attend the office 3 days a week

**Desirable Knowledge**:

- Macroeconomics
- Industry experience ideally in one of the areas: energy, banking & finance, climate or sustainability
- Climate Change Impact
- Economic modelling - numerical and analytics skills, using Excel or other tools (e.g. R, Python or others)
- General knowledge on labour market and demographics (population)
- General knowledge on econometrics or Input-Output (or CGE) modelling

**What Finity Offers**:

- Multi-disciplinary, diverse and inclusive working culture and environment
- Success as defined by you: a fast-growing team with lots of career opportunities
- Developing sophisticated modelling and analysis skills

Applicants who are short listed will be required to go through a National Police Check prior to the completion of the hiring process.
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted._
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