Fraud Analyst

What's the role?

As a Fraud Analyst at Westpac Group, you will apply your mathematical and creative problem-solving skills to detect suspicious behavior in Westpac customer data. These insights will be used to prevent financial loss to customers.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, testing, and deploying rules and statistical models to detect fraud and scam activity as it happens, and constantly adapt to new trends as they emerge.

This is a unique role where you get to play an important part in Westpac's fraud strategy as a bank, through solving a range of challenging and interesting problems with clear customer impact.

What do I need?

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is at the beginning of their career, rolling off a graduate program or finishing up university. You will bring your background and education in a technical area as well as your strong mathematics and problem-solving skills to the role. In turn, Westpac will help you learn and grow in this unique role!

• Recent or soon to complete Tertiary Qualification in relevant disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Studies, Computer Science or Econometrics is preferred.
• Have some technical knowledge in SQL, Python, R, SAS or other programming languages used to interrogate and manipulate large data sets and fit statistical models.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience or keen interest in games such as strategy board games or chess is advantageous as these display similar thought processes to fraud detection.
• Ability to think creatively to solve problems.

Why join us?

Westpac Group is obsessed with becoming their customers #1 banking partner for life and they’re looking for people who are passionate about helping them achieve that goal. In return, they’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways they’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 their many volunteering initiatives.

Key skills/competency

• Fraud Detection
• Statistical Modeling
• Data Analysis
• SQL
• Python
• R Programming
• SAS
• Problem Solving
• Risk Management
• Financial Crime