Senior Analytics and Insights Specialist

Westpac New Zealand Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday

Wellbeing leave

Insurance discounts

Internal development and mobility

Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Ltd is seeking a Senior Analytics & Insights Specialist to bridge data, strategy, and decision making. You will partner with stakeholders to deliver reporting, visualisation, and analytical solutions that turn complex information into actionable insights for smarter commercial outcomes.

You will build analytical models, dashboards, and decision-support tools using Power BI/Tableau, SAS/SQL, and large datasets, driving clear recommendations across pricing, performance, and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering analytics, reporting, insights, or BI solutions.
• Ability to build analytical models or decision-support tools that influence outcomes.
• Turn complex data into clear stories that stakeholders understand and act on.
• Experience creating impactful dashboards with Power BI or Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Create dashboards, visualisations, and reporting solutions for strategic decisions.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into analytical solutions.
• Build and maintain analytical models that support business decisions.
• Enhance critical reporting and decision-support tools for the organisation.
• Deliver insights shaping pricing, performance, portfolio, and customer strategies.

Skills

Analytics delivery

Data storytelling

Power BI

Tableau

SAS/SQL

Requirements gathering

Commercial thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

SQL

SAS

Excel

Job description

Senior Analytics and Insights Specialist From insight to impact. Help shape decisions that matter. At Westpac, we're looking for a curious and commercially minded Senior Analytics & Insights Specialist to help transform complex data into meaningful insights, actionable recommendations, and better business decisions. This isn't just a reporting role. You'll work alongside stakeholders across the business to understand challenges, uncover opportunities, and bring the right information to the right people at the right time. Along the way, you'll help develop analytical solutions, decision-support tools, and reporting capabilities that enable smarter commercial outcomes. Whether you're building executive dashboards, developing analytical models, identifying emerging trends, or helping leaders make confident decisions, your work will have genuine impact. If you enjoy asking "why?", connecting the dots, and turning data into conversations that spark action, we'd love to hear from you.

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

As a Senior Analytics & Insights Specialist, you'll be at the intersection of data, strategy, and decision-making. You'll partner with stakeholders to understand business needs, gather requirements, and deliver reporting, visualisation, and analytical solutions that bring complex information to life. Using large and varied datasets, you'll uncover insights into performance, customer behaviour, market dynamics, and commercial opportunities. You'll also play a key role in supporting business-critical analytical capabilities, helping to develop data models, reporting solutions, and insights that support strategic and commercial decision-making.

What you'll be doing

Create dashboards, visualisations, and reporting solutions that support strategic decision-making. Partner with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate requirements into analytical solutions. Build and maintain analytical models that support business decision-making. Support the development and enhancement of business-critical reporting and decision-support tools. Deliver insights that help shape pricing, performance, portfolio, and customer strategies. Analyse trends, market dynamics, and competitor activity to identify opportunities and risks. Present findings in a way that is clear, compelling, and tailored to a range of audiences.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Strong experience delivering analytics, reporting, insights, or business intelligence solutions.
• Experience building analytical models or decision-support solutions that influence business outcomes.
• A talent for turning complex data into clear stories that people understand and act on.
• Experience creating impactful dashboards and visualisations using Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Advanced SAS and/or SQL capability, with experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Confidence gathering requirements and partnering with stakeholders across different levels of an organisation.
• Strong commercial thinking and the ability to connect insights to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and build trusted relationships.
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach and genuine curiosity to understand how things work.
• Experience within financial services is helpful but not essential.

Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac

In addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:

• 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
• Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
• Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
• Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
• Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
• School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
• 2 Volunteer days per year

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation

At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together. What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you! Tono mai ināianei!

Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater

Our culture is rich with stories of how our people like to help, our customers, our community and each other. This is reflected through flexible working arrangements to ensure that our people have a balance in their life with those things that are important to them. Through ensuring that we provide opportunities to everyone regardless of what society throws at them, we are a safe place to work where you are treated equally and appreciated.

Applications close: 10 October 2026