Senior Analyst

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

Reporting to the
_Portfolio Insights Manager_, you will be responsible for providing and producing effective reporting, insights and analysis to stakeholders that support regulatory and portfolio management functions to meet governance frameworks and compliance obligations.

Using your experience in complex analysis skills you’ll be anticipating, identifying, and mitigating risk exposure for the Bank. You’ll be creating and enhancing internal and/or external regulatory risk management reports to understand risk exposures and track key trends, analysing and communicating your findings back to the business. You will be relied upon for your support of management initiatives and your ability to identify value-add opportunities. This is a highly collaborative role with exposure to the wider risk insights team, Australia, and other departments internally.

As a Senior Risk Analyst in Portfolio Insights team, you will be expected to collaborate with other team members and wider risk team to:

- Create and enhance risk management reports to understand risk exposures and track trends
- Monitor performance across all customer lifecycle stages, identifying emerging trends, risks and opportunities
- Perform data analysis to support risk management initiatives and validate hypotheses
- Provide ad hoc analytical support to the wider business
- Document workflows, share ideas and implement improvements to drive progress across the team
- Mentor junior analysts, transferring quantitative and qualitative analytical expertise
- Drive the maturation of data management and analytics capabilities in the team
- Collaborate with Risk Analytics colleagues and other Westpac departments (e.g. Product Management, Customer Insights, Collections and Fraud) to identify and implement business opportunities

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
- 5+ years’ experience with applied quantitative analysis, data manipulation and reporting
- 5+ years’ experience in Credit Risk or the Finance Industry
- Strong SAS (Enterprise Guide) and/or SQL computer language experience, including ability to query and manipulate large data (essential)
- Knowledge of Credit products (essential)
- Outstanding report writing skills
- Preferred experience using data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or SAS Visual Analytics
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral, including articulating complex analysis to non-analytical people and presenting to senior stakeholders
- Self-driven with ability to anticipate requirements
- Commitment to one team and take ownership
- A drive for industry-leading performance and constant improvement including task automation and simplification
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across the business
- Undergraduate degree in a statistical, mathematical, economics or related field is preferred

Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac

Immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, and receive some of the best banking, and lifestyle benefits in the market along with:

- 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
- Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
- Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we have programmes that recognise star performers
- Generous parental leave - and top up government paid parental leave
- School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
- 2 Volunteer days per year

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation

At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.

What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac - it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us - we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities - your attitud