Fraud Analyst

**Full time | Permanent**:

- **Sydney, NSW Location**:

- **Amazing entry level opportunity
**The Opportunity**

The is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is at the beginning of their career, rolling off a graduate program or finishing up University

You will bring your background/education in a technical area (Statistics, Data Science, Econometrics, Actuary etc.) as well as your strong mathematics and problem-solving skills to the role. In turn we will help you learn and grow in this unique role

**How will I help?**

As a Fraud Analyst, you will join the Intel Analytics team working on a range of strategic pieces of work where you will experience a constant stream of interesting data problems with tangible impacts on Westpac and its customers.

Working closely with the fraud intelligence team, you will be responsible for designing, testing, and deploying rules and machine learning models to identify and mitigate fraudulent activity occurring using Westpac Group products.

The role will require you to analyse past data as well as new trends in suspicious customer activity to mitigate risks using your creativity, critical thinking and mathematics knowledge.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Analyse and interrogate data to support detection of banking fraud (such as money muling and crime syndicates)
- Identify emerging fraud trends.
- Make continual improvements to our fraud detection system rules.
- Maintain and create internal automated reporting through dashboard and website creation.
- Become an expert in payment systems and processes.

**What do I need?**
- Recent or soon to complete Tertiary Qualification in relevant disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or Econometrics etc.
- Have some technical knowledge in SQL/Python/R or other programming languages used to interrogate and manipulate large data sets and fit statistical models.
- Experience or keen interest in games such as strategy board games or chess is advantageous as these display similar thought processes to fraud detection.
- Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to think creatively to solve problems.A keen and curious mind

**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 creating 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, 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 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.

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**How do I Apply?**

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