Advanced Analytics Manager

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Office in Sydney

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank's CommSec Data and Insights COE seeks an Advanced Analytics Manager to lead BI, reporting, and analytics initiatives. You will work with SQL, Python, and AWS to extract insights and support risk, compliance, and customer decisions.

In this hybrid Sydney-based role, you will deliver analytics across multiple platforms, build dashboards, and shape the analytical roadmap. You will mentor the COE team and drive AI/ML-driven solutions for business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale data analytics and data governance.
• Proven ability to build automated analytical workflows.
• Experience delivering advanced analytics solutions in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver BI, reporting, and analytics solutions to support decision-making.
• Analyse data from CommSec and Group platforms to provide insights across compliance, risk, and performance.
• Develop dashboards and perform impact and trend analysis to drive recommendations.
• Collaborate with Risk, Digital, and Product teams to shape analytics backlog.
• Upskill COE in AI, ML, and agentics foundations.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Statistical thinking

Data storytelling

Communication

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Teradata

Python

VS Code

AWS

Job description

• You are passionate about all things data related with a positive attitude
• We are a high performingteam with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement
• Together we can deliver an exemplary experience for our stakeholders and the Group

• You are passionate about all things data related with a positive attitude
• We are a high performingteam with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement
• Together we can deliver an exemplary experience for our stakeholders and the Group

Do work that matters

Business Banking (BB) offers a wide range of services and solutions to our small to medium enterprise customers and our regional and agribusiness customers. We also take care of our personal and institutional online trading customers.

CommSec is Australia’s leading online broker providing equities, international shares, exchange traded funds, research and margin lending services to our retail and sophisticated clients.

The CommSec Data and Insights Centre of Excellence (COE) is a central Data and Analytics function that supports the delivery of Data and Advanced Analytics offerings and services. The COE’s mission is to provide trusted data, capabilities and actionable insights in partnership with our stakeholders, to drive customer experience, empower decision making and safeguard our data.

See yourself in our team

The Insights and Decision Science Chapter, within the Centre of Excellence (CoE), is responsible for delivering CommSec's insights, advanced analytics, data science, and AI capabilities. The team enables strategic decision-making by providing actionable insights through reporting, diagnostic analysis, predictive analytics, and data-driven recommendations. We leverage integrated online and offline behavioural data to develop advanced analytics frameworks, AI-powered solutions, and decision-support tools that enhance customer engagement, optimise business performance, improve operational efficiency, and support effective risk management.

In this role

As the Advanced Analytics Manager within the Business Intelligence and Analytics Squad, you will deliver business intelligence, reporting, and advanced analytics solutions that support strategic decision-making across CommSec. Using SQL, Python, VSCode and advanced analytics techniques, you will analyse data from CommSec and Group platforms to provide insights across compliance, risk, financial crime, customer, and operational initiatives. You will develop dashboards, perform impact and trend analysis, and deliver actionable recommendations that improve business performance, enhance risk management, and support data-driven decision-making.

Other Responsibilities Will Include

• Use CommSec and Group data and systems to complete complex and advanced data analysis that gives the business essential information to help manage risk
• Perform detailed analysis of CommSec and Group data to provide the business with information to respond to regulatory requests within specific timeframes
• Complete required project work stream outputs with quality assurance/approval for your area of responsibility or other additional requests for analytics
• Collaborate with key business partners such as Risk, Digital or Product teams to understand business needs and help shape the advanced analytics backlog.
• Upskill the broader COE in Advanced Analytics and help engineer the foundations for the future of AI, ML and Agentics in CommSec

We’re Interested In Hearing From People Who Have

Please note that we’re interested in hearing from people who might not meet all the following criteria. We’re open to working with the right candidate to fill any skill gaps during your journey at CommBank:

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and modern data technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Python, VS Code and AWS with a proven ability to manipulate, analyse, and model large-scale, complex datasets using efficient and scalable practices.
• Sound experience across data management, information strategy, and analytics, including data governance, data quality, advanced modelling, and the development of automated analytical workflows.
• Demonstrated expertise in delivering advanced analytical solutions within high-complexity environments, including applying sophisticated statistical, predictive, and machine-learning techniques to support business decision-making.
• Sound level of proficiency in key capabilities – IT SDLC processes, Agile delivery, written documentation/specification skills

Working with us

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

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