About Future Group

Future Group is not your traditional financial services company – we're a collective of super funds and services committed to changing our planet now for a better tomorrow. When you join us, you’ll become part of a team united by a clear and important mission: to lead the investment movement by advocating and campaigning for a future worth retiring into.

We are looking for someone to join our Impact and ESG team in our purpose-led high-growth scaleup. The Junior Sustainable Investments Analyst will be core to the administration of our sustainable investment processes and assisting with our reporting. Your north star: ensuring our investments align with our sustainable investment philosophy.

And the best bit, you’ll get to work with some fantastic work mates. Our team is small, collaborative, and we work in fortnightly sprints. We have an output-focused approach to work (it matters more that you do what you’re meant to, not that you spend enough time sitting in front of a computer). 

We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse lived experience and identities, as the problems we face are complex, and the more diverse our team is, the better our solutions become. We are a team that is all about building a strong workplace culture, that's not only diverse, but competent. We are always learning and doing better together, and holding ourselves to account on our values.

Future Group values lived experience and we encourage applications from people with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, who have caring responsibilities, from culturally and racially marginalised groups, people with disability, people who experience ageism, LGBTQIA+ people, and people who experience social exclusion because of their social class.

If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to our talent team at careers@futuregroup.com.au. We want to ensure our recruitment process is equitable for all, and we’ll happily make any reasonable adjustments where required.

You’ll love this job if:

• You find superannuation opaque and frustrating, if you had the chance to revolutionise the industry to be better for people, you would 

• You love sharing your ideas and seeing what happens. At this scale-up, you're not just a small fish in a big pond. Your contributions have a direct influence on our impact and how we work

• You like to be kept on your toes - change is inevitable here. You like to tackle new challenges, and maybe even discover talents you never knew you had

• Care about making the world a better place for everyone

• Can keep the values and priorities of our members and clients at the centre of your decision making – embodying the values and priorities of different stakeholders in different projects

• Can stay focused on complex tasks and problems, including projects that can span weeks

• Take delivering on deadlines seriously: staying mindful of prioritisation and innovating on processes when appropriate

• Are curious about the world and enjoy learning at least a little bit about a lot of things

• Enjoy communicating and connecting with people

• Collaborate well in a team environment, can manage your own time, and deliver on your priorities 

• Enjoy getting into the detail of how the companies are acting & holding them accountable to our standards

• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy pulling together lots of different information and feedback to make decisions

We’re looking for someone who:

• Believes in Future Group’s mission and has a passion for moving Australia’s money out of fossil-fuels and into renewable energy 

• Believes in using the power of money to build a sustainable and equitable world

• Is confident with Microsoft Office (especially Excel and Word), online databases, workflow tools, and the Google suite of products

•  Has research or data entry experience, in work or in your studies

• Is uber detailed oriented

Some nice-to-haves but are not essential are: 

• Familiarity with (or an interest in) ethical investing, ETFs, Financial Services, or superannuation.

A day in the life of a Junior Sustainable Investments Analyst could look like:

• Flexing your google stalking to assess companies’ sustainability credentials 

• Analysing and advising on shareholder votes

• Reaching out to companies we invest in for a deep dive into their sustainability approaches

• Monitoring companies we invest in to ensure that they continue to comply with our screening criteria

Don’t tick all the boxes?- that’s okay, we like thinking outside the box anyway. We value skills, passion and who you are over what you’ve done or where you’ve studied. So if this job strikes a chord, we want to hear from you!

Why would you enjoy working at Future Group?

• A purpose-driven organisation - spend your days working on making this world a better place! The more we grow, the bigger the impact we are making on climate change and inequality

• A B Corp organisation that cares about how it behaves inside and out

• AFR’s Best Place to Work 2022 for the banking, superannuation and financial services sector 

• Flexibility to fit work into your life (not your life around our work). School drop-offs/pick-ups and lunch-time gym sessions are a thing here

• The choice to work from home, from one of our co-working spaces, from anywhere within Australia or even from overseas (for a short period of time)

• The potential to own a piece of the Future Group pie with our unique Employee Share Ownership Program (with some fineprint) 

• Fun company-wide events 

• Progressive, people-focused policies and benefits including Menstrual and Menopausal Leave, Public holidays swaps, Cultural Leave, Mental Health Leave and Gender Affirmation Guidelines and Leave (you can check them out here)

• We offer employee network groups for people from diverse backgrounds: SuperGenders for cisgender women, trans men and women and non-binary and gender-diverse folks; SuperGlobal for culturally diverse folks; and SuperPride for LGBTQIA+ folks. The groups are a safe, supportive space for people to share experiences and ideas  

• An inclusive parental leave package, with 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• A laptop you can use to work remotely plus an allowance to make your working from home setup comfortable   

• Other perks such as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), the ability to purchase leave, novated leasing arrangements for electric vehicles, and a few more to find out

Applying for a job at Future Group

• The application will require answering short questions so give yourself time to complete it. Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. We know job hunting can be time consuming, we don’t expect for you to spend more than 30 minutes on your application

• We use Applied as our de-identified recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process. If you are curious to know more about how it works, check out this blog post

• You’ll hear from us about a week or two after the closing date. If your application is successful, you’ll be invited to a 20 minute phone chat with someone from our Talent team. If your application missed out this time, we won’t ghost you, we’ll let you know and we’ll provide you with some feedback which you can check-out if you want

• Following the good old telephone call, should your application be successful again, you will be invited to a couple of interviews by Zoom

Questions? Please reach out to our awesome Talent team at careers@futuregroup.com.au.