Westpac

Senior Business 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

What’s the role? We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a portfolio of initiatives impacting Treasury Technology systems and processes. You will play a key role in the UNITE transformation program, aligning business objectives with technology outcomes and ensuring seamless integration within the existing environment. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in a collaborative and inclusive setting.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements, assess the impact of changes, and craft solutions through data analysis and engagement. Your role will involve creating technical specifications, coordinating projects, and contributing to testing to ensure quality outcomes. You will also define business rules, resolve data integrity issues, and support efforts to simplify and consolidate data, all while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.

What do I need?

  • Expertise in advanced data analysis, requirements elicitation, and intermediate SQL Server.
  • Strong understanding of banking products and systems.
  • Proven experience delivering high-quality analysis and leading successful projects.
  • A collaborative approach to building and managing diverse stakeholder relationships.
  • Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Preferred background in liquidity, transfer pricing, or interest rate risk projects.
  • Ideal: Experience in banking, particularly within Treasury.

Why join us? We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

  • Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
  • Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave. 
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank. 
  • Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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