**Opportunity to join Westpac's Institutional Bank**:
- **Established career path and progression opportunities**:
- **Sydney Based
**How will I Help?**
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Associate Director with solid credit analysis skills to join Westpac's Institutional Bank (WIB) in the Consumer Analyst team covering NSW.
This team is responsible for high quality origination and delivery of best-in-class customer and industry insights to differentiate our sales proposition and enhance our conversations with valued clients.
The primary responsibility of this credit analyst role is to efficiently manage a portfolio of Corporate & Institutional sized clients across numerous sectors and provide robust analysis and deliver sound & sustainable credit recommendations, including the origination process for new transactions and the ongoing support and monitoring of the customer portfolio as the primary credit analyst.
You'll collaborate with your analyst peers, product experts, and Relationship Managers to help initiate and structure a range of banking transactions, whilst being sensitive to the customer's needs. This includes providing value added research that can be used by both our customers and internal stakeholders.
You will also:
- Build relationships and establish rapport with clients and with internal stakeholders
- Ensure that all aspects of the credit process, including the required due diligence, are properly executed
- Write credit submissions including detailed risk analysis and financial forecasting, and be able to present and negotiate submissions through WIB's risk management decision process
- Test proposals against approved business and credit strategies, target market acceptance criteria and underwriting standards
**What's in it for me?**
You will play a key role in the Corporate and Institutional Banking division and work closely with key client stakeholders, internal Relationship Managers, business leaders, and Risk. Through this exposure you will further develop your commercial and business acumen as well your professional network which will lead advanced professional opportunities. Westpac is passionate about developing its people, and you will be encouraged to drive your own training and development as well as have access to experienced leaders in the business to guide and mentor you on a formal or informal basis for your career progression.
On a personal note, whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
**What do I need?**
To be successful you will have the following:
- 6+ years' experience in Corporate or Institutional banking or a related field, with experience in credit writing, analysis, and assessment.
- A familiarity with Institutional clients and the various aspects of Institutional Banking that go with this across Financial Markets, Syndications and multi-bank relationships will be viewed favourably.
- You will demonstrate strong attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple priorities while building relationships with a variety of stakeholders and external clients
Some further advantageous skills:
- Advanced Microsoft excel and financial modelling skills will be viewed favourably
- Knowledge of how to build customer relationships and experience managing customers would be beneficial.
- Strong communication and influencing skills required to manage significant relationships with stakeholders
**What is it like to work there?**
For the past 200 years, we've been backing people, businesses, communities, and ideas. As Australia's first bank, we've adapted and evolved, inspired by our customers and a genuine desire to create better futures.
Together, we're creating better futures for all our people, customers, communities, and shareholders. This has been our enduring Purpose.
- **We inspire our people and together we are creating better futures **. It's our passion for embracing diversity and creating opportunities that enables them to dream big and fulfil their potential.
- **We empower our customers **. It's our strength, agility and heart that gives them the confidence to navigate change and forge new paths. Empowered, our customers are creating better futures.
- **We make change happen in the community **. It's our shared vision of a safer, greener and more inclusive world that sees us back new ideas, innovations and individuals who are creating better futures.
- **We deliver for our shareholders by creating better futures together **. It's our ability to generate value for this generation and the next, which makes our shareholders proud to invest in us.
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