Senior Data Scientist — AI for Finance & Audit (Hybrid)

Xero; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Community volunteering

Employee mortgage discounts

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Data Centre of Excellence Advanced Analytics within Group Audit in Sydney. This hands‑on role focuses on delivering production‑grade AI solutions, automating audit activities, and extracting actionable insights from complex data.

You will collaborate with Technology, Risk and Compliance teams, applying Python, SQL, Alteryx and Copilot Studio to solve real business problems and help advance the analytics roadmap across Group Audit.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years practical data science experience, ideally within financial services, audit, assurance or risk environments.
• Hands-on experience applying ML/AI, automation or predictive analytics to business problems.
• Strong Python and SQL capability, including complex structured and unstructured data.
• Experience designing, building or productionising AI/Generative AI solutions, including model pipelines and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver advanced analytics and production‑grade AI solutions for audit and assurance.
• Identify opportunities to automate audit activities and uncover emerging risks and insights.
• Collaborate with audit teams and cross‑functional partners in Technology, Risk and Compliance using Python, SQL, Alteryx and Copilot Studio.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Generative AI

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Python

SQL

Alteryx

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Azure

Snowflake

LLM integration

MLOps

Job description

Westpac Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Data Centre of Excellence Advanced Analytics within Group Audit in Sydney. This hands‑on role focuses on delivering production‑grade AI solutions, automating audit activities, and extracting actionable insights from complex data.

You will collaborate with Technology, Risk and Compliance teams, applying Python, SQL, Alteryx and Copilot Studio to solve real business problems and help advance the analytics roadmap across Group Audit.