Lead Data Analyst

Permanent
- Barangaroo, Sydney
- Hybrid Working Model

**54408 Lead Data Analyst**

**How will I help?**

As a Lead Data Analyst, you will play a critical role in supporting strategic decisions within our KYC/AML program. Collaborating closely with Business Analysts, you will source, analyse, and present data to various stakeholders, helping to shape the future of the Westpac Group's financial crime profile.

Your primary goal is to deliver high-quality data insights and analytics that will enable effective decision-making. You'll work in a dynamic environment, utilising your technical expertise to streamline processes, automate workflows, and enhance reporting accuracy.

You will also be coaching and leading a team of senior data analysts.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with Business Analysts to define data requirements, source information from both standard and unconventional data environments, and deliver clear, actionable insights.
- Translate complex business logic into maintainable SQL and Excel processes, ensuring all data outputs are accessible and understandable by non-technical teams.
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement, leveraging your data expertise to increase business efficiency.
- Prepare detailed status reports and provide data-driven analysis of program performance, presenting multiple approaches with associated pros and cons.
- Take ownership of the technical solutions, overseeing data files for remediation purposes and conducting deep dives into data elements to assess impact.
- Identify gaps in the current risk and compliance frameworks and recommend actionable improvements, with a focus on implementation.
- Engage heavily with stakeholders, including leadership and cross-functional teams, to translate project requirements into effective data flows and reporting.

**What's in it for me?**

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 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 succeed?**
- Extensive experience in data analysis, preferably in a financial crime or financial services setting. Experience in large banks or specialised operations teams is highly valued.
- Proficiency in SQL (Teradata experience is a plus) and experience in large-scale enterprise data warehouses.
- Strong skills in data visualisation tools, particularly Power BI, to create meaningful dashboards and reports.
- Exposure to working with complex business entities, such as Trusts and Partnerships, is a bonus.
- Experience with the **Control-M Automation API **to automate scheduling processes and integrate with other enterprise systems.
- Proven ability to develop and optimize automation scripts to streamline workflows, reduce manual interventions, and enhance efficiency.
- Solid understanding of **DevOps **practices, leveraging tools like **Jenkins **, **Ansible **, and **Git **for pipeline automation and version control.
- Hands-on experience in developing and deploying **machine learning models **for predictive analytics.
- Familiarity with **big data platforms **(e.g., Hadoop, Spark) and cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong **communication and presentation **skills, with the ability to convey complex findings to non-technical stakeholders.

**What's 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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