Data Analytics Manager - Financial Crime Intelligence

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Data Analytics Manager - Financial Crime Intelligence

• Permanent Full-time opportunity
• Sydney based
• Hybrid working model

What's the role?

The Financial Crime Intelligence (FCI) team is part of Westpac's Risk Division. FCI at Westpac is responsible for helping the bank identify, assess, and respond to threats such as money laundering, terrorism financing and other illicit activity. Its role is to collaborate with regulators and industry partners (e.g. AUSTRAC, Fintel Alliance) to support public-private initiatives, generate actionable intelligence for risk decisions, and strengthen monitoring and detection controls.

As a Data Analytics Manager within FCI, you will apply advanced data, analytical and reporting capabilities to identify patterns, anomalies and emerging financial crime threats across the Westpac Group. You will extract, validate, transform and analyse data from multiple sources to produce intelligence-led insights, identify typologies and support strategic and operational responses to financial crime risk.

You will also develop and improve analytics techniques, dashboards and data products that strengthen FCI's monitoring capability and provide clear, decision-useful insights to support risk management and intelligence priorities.

What do I need?

• Strong experience in data analytics, intelligence analysis, or data science.
• Advanced capability in SQL and Python (essential), or SAS (desirable) for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and analytical tools
• Proficient in MS Office and data visualisation tools (incl. AI-enabled capabilities)
• Ability to deliver dashboards, insights, and analysis to support decision-making and risk outcomes
• Must be an Australian citizen and willing to obtain Baseline security clearance due to the nature of the role

Why join us?

We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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