Westpac
Senior Analyst - Audit, Financial Services
To become number one for customer service
Finance and accounting
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
Senior Analyst – Audit, Financial Services
- Permanent Full-time opportunity
- Sydney based
- Hybrid working model
How will I help? As a Senior Analyst, you will interact with key business stakeholders and other Group Audit teams. You will be part of a team to conduct independent reviews of control frameworks, systems, policies and procedures, and deep dives across the Westpac Group and identify areas for remediation and opportunities for enhancement.
**Some of the key accountabilities are: **
- Support the delivery of audit planning, including the identification of processes, risks and controls for testing.
- Support audit engagements throughout the end-to-end audit process including testing the design and operating effectiveness of controls
- Identify and document audit issues, including performing a significance analysis and agreeing management action plans.
- Collaborate within own home team and with Group Audit subject matter experts as needed across credit, technology and risk and compliance.
- Support the day-to-day group audit activities including thematic deep dives, continuous improvement activities, and other group audit initiatives.
What’s in it for me? You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 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?
- Extensive experience within the financial services industry in Audit or similar risk discipline
- Experience in financial markets (desirable)
- Strong knowledge of financial products (consumer and business banking knowledge preferred but not required)
- Intermediate analytical and communication skills with attention to detail.
- A proactive, solution-focused attitude and the ability to think critically to solve problems and recommend actions.
- Knowledge, qualifications and/or experience in data analytics techniques using Alteryx, SQL and any data visualisation tools is advantageous.
**What’s it like to work there? ** We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
What you'll be responsible for
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Process Management and Ongoing Improvement
Manage and improve organizational processes to minimize complexities and increase productivity
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Accounts Payable and Receivable Management
Maintain and update accounts payable and receivable, issue invoices and undertake reconciliations
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Pipeline Management
Prioritize and maintain pipeline while owning the sales cycle from discovery to close, in order to meet targets and goals
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Prioritization
Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables
Meet the team
Serves a fundamental role in making financial decisions for internal and external affairs. A business’s activities depend on the competence of a company’s finance department and the individuals who comprise it. A finance department is organized by, and runs according to, specific roles and duties.