Westpac
Senior Credit Risk Analyst
To become number one for customer service
Banking and Investment
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 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
How will I help? Your role as Senior Credit Risk Analyst within Credit Risk Collections contributes to our vision of being one of the world’s great companies, helping our customer’s, communities and people to prosper and grow.
You will establish and maintain "best practice" risk management processes and techniques that support the stated product and customer strategy, produce superior reporting and analysis of portfolio trends to drive change and improve portfolio profitability and customer experience. You will be a key support to Senior Risk Managers in developing profitability-based strategies for delinquent account management across multiple brands. You will also assist with monitoring profitability-based strategies for account management, and syndicate.
Some other major accountabilities of this role include:
- Development, research, analysis and interpretation of significant portfolio performance trends
- Maintaining effective partnership with business owners by providing timely support in relation to credit risk, delinquency performance, collection strategy, and decisioning system issues
- Liaise with outsourced collection agencies for operational effectiveness monitoring and problem-solving
- Contributing to the monitoring of risk-based Collections / Recoveries Management strategies
- Providing insight to portfolio performance and forecasting delinquency as well as bad debt loss accurately
- Participate in business development initiatives and risk related projects
- Development, implementation and monitoring of effective credit policies
- Support the management of external stakeholders including Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia, ASIC and the Privacy commissioner where applicable to collections and recovery activities
- Ensure credit policy and risk strategy is communicated effectively to the frontline and stakeholders
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? To be successful in this role, you must have experience in financial services risk management and be familiar with Credit Risk Policies. An understanding of banking, the credit risk lifecycle, delinquency monitoring/reporting, credit scoring, behavioural scoring, scorecard development and monitoring is needed. You will also have a strong grasp on the credit lifecycle, collection strategy, workflow, with exposure to a credit risk decisioning system. Other advantages attributes include:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent risk analytics experience
- Strong SAS, SQL programming and Excel/Tableau skills
- Practical experience in consumer lending and collections
- Proficient with data extraction, manipulation and analysis
- Analytical and problem-solving skills and forecasting experience
What you'll be responsible for
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Risk Monitoring
Monitor risk levels and report potential risks to senior management and other stakeholders
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Risk Management Policies and Procedures
Develop and implement risk management policies and procedures to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks to the organization
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Risk Identification and Assessment
Conduct risk assessments to identify and evaluate potential risks, and develop strategies to manage and mitigate these risks
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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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables