Associate, Fi

Opportunity to join Westpac's Institutional Bank
- Established career path and progression opportunities
- Sydney Based

**How will I help? **We have a clear vision here at Westpac - to be one of the world's great service companies. The Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB) helps us realise that vision both here in Australia and overseas - and as one of our Credit Analysts, you'll have your own important role to play too within the Customer Insights & Analytics (CI&A) team.

The primary responsibility of this Associate - Credit Analyst role is to efficiently manage a portfolio of primarily Financial Institutions (FI) and Public Sector customers, including the origination process for new transactions and the ongoing monitoring and management of the existing customer portfolio. You will build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and clients to help originate and structure a range of banking transactions.

You will also:

- Write credit submissions including detailed risk analysis, assessment and recommendations and help to present and negotiate submissions through WIB's risk management decision process
- Manage credit and portfolio risk including preparation of annual reviews, actioning triggers and monitoring covenants
- Monitor and research market and industry trends and provide relevant insights and thought leadership to stakeholders

**What's in it for me? **Inspiring locations. Flexible workspaces. And unexpected opportunities. Plus, the backing and great benefits from one of the most refreshing employers in Australia. For example, you'll be able to have access to some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market, be paid well, as well as an entire suite of online learning and career planning tools so you can grow.

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?**
Some experience in institutional or corporate banking or a related field with experience in credit writing and credit assessment is preferred. You will demonstrate strong attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple priorities while building relationships with a variety of stakeholders and external clients.

Some further advantageous skills:

- Clear and concise communication abilities
- Tertiary qualified in an analytical focused field such as finance, business, or economics

**What's it like to work there? **We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us reach our vision to become one of the world's great service companies. Working with us you'll discover new ways of working, and an exciting range of roles to showcase your skills. As an equal opportunity employer, we're proud to have created a culture where people can be their best, in an environment that values diversity and flexibility. And one where everyone belongs.

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The health and wellbeing of our employees is our priority and we will ensure that physical distancing requirements are met in all our workplaces as long as required.

Our employees are required to comply with the policy regardless of whether they are in customer-facing or non-customer-facing roles (as employees in non-customer-facing roles are required to attend the workplace under our Hybrid Working Strategy). Further, the Westpac Group is required to comply with State/Territory issued public health orders/directions which require relevant workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter workplaces.