Senior Conduct Risk Analyst

Senior Conduct Risk Analyst

• Location: Sydney
• Full-Time Permanent role 
• Hybrid working model (2 days in office)

How will I help?  

As a Senior Conduct Risk Analyst in Business & Wealth Division, you will support and advise our Risk and Compliance partners by providing in-depth analysis and actionable insights using Westpac’s data and analytical assets.

In this role, you will enhance Westpac’s capacity to provide self-service information to business partners and support the detection and reporting of misconduct, compliance issues, and sales quality. You will manage data using SAS software, offer technical support, and ensure the effective implementation of SAS systems. Your efforts will help mitigate risk, prevent financial loss, and minimize impact on stakeholders and customers.

Key Accountabilities:  

• Developing, supporting, maintaining, analytics frameworks to identify, quantify and manage compliance breaches, lending practices and sales quality.
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize existing SAS applications, ensuring smooth and efficient operation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to SAS applications, systems, and processes.
• Extracting and analysing data using data warehouse and database management software to conduct complex database queries and setting up automated processes for ETL.
• Monitoring and analysis of non-compliant behaviours by detection performance and improvements through the development of rules, automation, creation of mitigation strategies etc.
• Troubleshooting technical and data issues in collaboration with data analysts, and communicating issues to business stakeholders
• Configuring, managing, and troubleshooting batch job scheduling tools such as Fortra, AutoMate, Control-M or ESP
• Lead stakeholder discussions to understand the situation and requirements that enables a problem to be defined with clarity and precision.
• Explore, develop, and maintain analytical dashboards in PowerBi, or Tableau and detection scripts for compliance and conduct risk from various data sources.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving, and communication skills to translate technical information/insights to non-technical audiences.
• Presenting and articulating the findings back to the stakeholders using visualisation tools and ensuring that learnings are incorporated into future initiatives.
• Assist in the provision of data and analysis to management or any other internal or external users as requested and authorised.

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? 

• Excellent programming skills in:
  • SAS (SAS certifications) will be a plus.
  • Teradata SQL
  • SSIS packages
• Excellent Dashboard PowerBi/Tableau dashboard design skills
• Familiar with and have experience setting up automated jobs.
• Experience with configuring, managing, and troubleshooting batch job scheduling tools such as Fortra, AutoMate, Control-M or ESP
• Experience with troubleshooting technical and data issues in collaboration with data analysts, and communicating issues to business stakeholders
• Experience with integrating batch systems with multiple components (e.g. Excel, SharePoint, point-to-point solutions such as Sterling, Unix/Linux systems)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to tell stories about data.
• Clear and articulate communication of technical matters to a technical and business audience
• Collaboration with a variety of technical and business stakeholders in a banking environment to deliver projects and changes of various sizes
• Know-how of R or Python preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of various analytical and problem-solving techniques.
• General banking industry and financial concepts knowledge (Preferred)
• Knowledge of and experience in a Risk analytics or an environment where data analytics provided strategic or operational insight would be highly advantageous.

What is 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.   

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between. 

We’ll empower you to shape your career path.  Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.  

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

How do I apply? 

Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button. 

At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application. 

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au. 

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process? 

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates, including those with disabilities or specific accessibility needs. For further information and additional contact details visit the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website https://www.westpac.com.au/about-westpac/inclusion-and-diversity/Inclusion-means-everyone-matters/disability-and-accessibility/