Credit Decision Analytics Specialist

Westpac; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks standard holiday

5 wellbeing days

Additional leave options up to 4 weeks

Banking benefits and superannuation

Growth and development opportunities

Recognition for performance

School holiday subsidy

2 volunteer days per year

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand seeks an Analyst in Credit Decision Analytics to help automate and optimise lending decisions across home loans and cards. The role involves working with large data sets, building analytical models, and presenting insights to stakeholders.

You will collaborate with Risk Management and product squads, prototype new techniques, and monitor strategy changes within Westpac's decisioning platform, contributing to growth and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in analytics or a similar role.
• Strong SAS skills, which are essential, along with SQL or experience using other coding languages such as R or Python.
• Experience in data manipulation and quantitative analysis.
• Familiarity with reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to communicate insights clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• A degree in a statistical, mathematical, economic or related field.

Responsibilities

• Work with large, complex data sets.
• Collaborate across Risk Management and product squads to deliver customer-centric lending solutions.
• Prototype new analytical techniques, data sources and decision strategies.
• Develop, implement and monitor decision strategy changes within Westpac's decisioning platform.
• Present actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Undertake ad-hoc data analysis to support strategy decisions.

Skills

Analytics experience

SAS

SQL

R

Python

Data manipulation

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Statistics/Math/Economics degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Westpac New Zealand seeks an Analyst in Credit Decision Analytics to help automate and optimise lending decisions across home loans and cards. The role involves working with large data sets, building analytical models, and presenting insights to stakeholders.

You will collaborate with Risk Management and product squads, prototype new techniques, and monitor strategy changes within Westpac's decisioning platform, contributing to growth and customer outcomes.