Westpac

Senior Analyst

To become number one for customer service

  • Strategy and analysis

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Why Westpac

Westpac is Australia’s oldest bank and company, one of four major banking organisations in Australia and one of the largest banks in New Zealand. We provide a broad range of banking and financial services in these markets, including consumer, business and institutional banking and wealth management services.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to measure Westpac’s existing and emerging operational risks. 

The role holder will support compliance with Prudential Standards APS 115 Capital:

Standardised Measurement Approach to Operational Risk, Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management, Prudential Standard APS 330 Pillar 3 disclosures, ensuring leading practice is defined and implemented consistently across the Group in line with regulatory requirements and Board expectations, and work with other Risk teams to ensure that the Group's operational risk measurement activities are appropriately executed.   Key Accountabilities include:  

  • Support the Group’s approach to Operational Risk Measurement (ORM), ensuring leading practice is defined and implemented consistently across the Group in line with regulatory requirements and Board expectations. 
  • Support the Executive Manager Operational Risk Measurement to perform day to day tasks and analysis required to support the ORM teams’ broader objectives.
  • Inform the assessment of existing and emerging operational risks, using historic loss analysis and forward-looking scenario analysis.
  • Manage and uplift Group’s Internal Loss Data (ILD) reconciliation process ensuring General Ledger and JUNO are in synch with the financial impact of the losses.
  • Manage submission of ILD data to the third party ORX (Operational risk exchange) based on the submission procedures agreed with ORX.
  • Be responsible for downloading, maintaining External Loss Data (ELD) received from ORX.
  • Perform data analytics and insights-based reporting on ILD and ELD data to create a loss data experience analysis story and inform ORM leadership and divisional stakeholders about the emerging trends and the “So What” of the data.

 

What’s in it for me? You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure.  Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need?

  • A relevant undergraduate degree from a recognised university is desirable
  • 3+ years’ experience in data analysis or quantitative modelling is a must.
  • Experience working in financial services.
  • Strong stakeholder management and engagement
  • High level of use with data tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL 
  • Demonstrable experience leading change 
  • Knowledge of risk management disciplines
  • Knowledge and experience in risk measurement or capital management preferred

What you'll be responsible for

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    Problem Identification

    Identify the problems and needs of key stakeholders to guide data analysis

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    Execution and Project Management

    Plan and deliver project plans by managing people, resources, budget, and timelines, to support the organization’s goals

  • Stakeholder Engagement

    Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

Skills you'll need

  • Prioritization

    Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions

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    Decision Making

    Considers the costs and benefits of potential actions and determines the most appropriate one

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    Problem solving

    Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems

Meet the team

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Strategy and analysis

Westpac