Job Satisfaction at Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)

Analyst responsible for frontline supervision of a number of superannuation entities. Financial and non-financial analysis, meeting with Board and Executive of these funds as well as involvement in a range of working groups.

Probably still mostly compliance based in the end

As a grad, you do get exposure to the day-to-day responsibilities of a team and can contribute in many different ways. The work is generally of a high standard, and there are many opportunities to meet with very senior internal and external individuals and teams.

Day-to-day in the legal team I assist with drafting internal advices, reviewing contracts, drafting instruments and deeds, assisting with FOI requests and a lot of other varied work.

At the moment the focus for grads is to learn about the organisation and the role of their division. Day-to-day currently involves training, shadowing other analysts, ad-hoc work

Policy development, stakeholder engagement, data analysis

I analyse the performance of superannuation funds and hold trustee boards to account. This generally consists of data analysis and writing reports and analysis papers that are published internally and externally. No day is the same - on another day, I may be meeting with superannuation boards and executives; the next day, I may be shaping and providing input into APRA's policy and supervisory approach, then implementing it.

Supervision of range of entities, with varying prudential issues and concerns.

Engaging with Superannuation entities to ensure that they comply with the relevant legislative requirements and standards. You get a wide variety of stakeholder management, both internal and external, and be immersed in a range of work (e.g. data analytics,governance,e policy etc).