Senior Analyst | Data & Financial Crime / Reg Reporting

• Location: Sydney (Hybrid)
• Rate: $950/day + Super
• Contract: Initial 12 Months

This role offers the opportunity to leverage your technical expertise in SAS, SQL and data analytics. You will play a key role in developing automated reporting solutions, maintaining critical systems and controls, and delivering actionable insights to stakeholders across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Analytics & Regulatory Reporting: Deliver efficient and effective data analytics to support Westpac's Financial Crime Detection capabilities, including assessing the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of regulatory reporting to AUSTRAC.
• Automation & Scripting: Develop and maintain SAS scripts and automated routines to improve reporting processes and data quality.
• Data Management: Extract, validate, transform and load data from multiple sources to support analytics and reporting requirements.
• Stakeholder Reporting: Develop and maintain meaningful metrics, reports and insights to support business stakeholders and informed decision-making.
• Systems & Controls: Maintain, support and enhance existing systems, processes and controls managed by the team.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business divisions, including the Financial Crime Transformation team, to gather feedback and continuously improve reporting performance and system effectiveness.

Key Skills & Experience

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Advanced SAS and SQL programming skills.
• Strong data manipulation and analytical capabilities, with the ability to work with complex datasets and systems.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Experience developing automated reports and delivering clear, concise presentations to stakeholders.
• A minimum of three years' experience in a comparable data analytics, financial crime or regulatory reporting role.

Highly Desirable Experience

• Database design and development.
• Teradata SQL Server experience.
• Oracle SQL experience.
• Business intelligence (BI) report design, development and implementation, using tools such as SAS BI and Tableau.

If you have strong SAS and SQL skills, a passion for data analytics and an interest in financial crime detection and regulatory reporting, we'd love to hear from you. Candidates must be based in Sydney with full work rights