Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
APRA/RBA Brian Gray Scholarship (Mar 2025)
Online/remote, Remote
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 15000 / Year
- $15,000 per recipient, per scholarship.
- 1-4 vacancies
- Apply by 6 Apr 2025
- Start date 19 Mar 2025 - 5 Feb 2026
APRA and the Reserve Bank of Australia have established the Brian Gray Scholarship program in memory of Brian Gray, who died on 24 August 2001 while serving as Executive General Manager of APRAโs Policy, Research and Consulting Division.
The Brian Gray Scholarship program will fund up to four scholarships annually, to the value of $15,000 each. The scholarship purpose is to support final year Honours and PhD students in finance, economics, commerce, actuarial science, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, data science, legal or related disciplines, who intend to focus full time on their studies and research. Recipients are students that are researching topics that relate to the work APRA or the RBA conduct. Such as the Banking, Insurance, Superannuation, financial stability or economic outlooks and impacts.
Under this Scholarship program, the recipients will devote a substantial amount of time to an agreed research topic and present their findings to APRA upon completion of their research. Scholarship holders may also be able to gain valuable work experience with APRA during their final year of study.
Apply for the scholarship by visiting the APRA Careers Page.
Scholarship Program eligibility
You are welcome to apply to the APRA/RBA Brian Gray Scholarship if you have:
- Australian citizenship (at the time of submitting this application). New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency NOT eligible.
- Open to final year full-time Honours and PhD students in finance, economics, actuarial science, econometrics, statistics and related disciplines or topics.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor (Honours) or higher
Reviews
Always doing new things, never boring
Mixture of financial analysis, research and meeting with key stakeholders. As a graduate, much of the work is assisting others in the team.
Work plans typically follow an annual cycle of expected activities and then other ad-hoc activities or 'project' type activities (typically on a volunteer/EOI basis). Day-to-day revolves around these 3 types of activities, and includes document review, drafting lines of questions in preparation for meetings, making judgements on the adequacy of risk management etc.
About the employer
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
4.2
500 - 1,000 employees
Government & Public Service
Start your career with a 'View from the Top' of the financial services industry. Help to strengthen the Banking, Insurance & Superanuation sectors.
Pros and cons of working at Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
Pros
Work hours are amazing and everyone advocates a healthy work-life balance.
The culture of the company is great. Everyone is welcoming, caring and supportive of all graduates to learn and get as much experience as possible.
The rotation structure is great as there is a lot of exposure to various areas in the organisation.
There are plenty of opportunities, but as it is a government role, promotion opportunities... are highly structured.
Very flexible hours, so long as you do the work and minimum contracted hours.
Cons
There's a bit of bureaucracy which takes time and patience to navigate.
Development and progression is not consistent and opaque.
A lot of technical pieces are typically passed on to specialist teams to handle.
Rigid structure of employment hierarchy and pay structure that comes with a government role.
Graduates not given appropriate roles to settle in post-graduate program.