**Modeller**
- **Permanent**
**- Location: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne**
**How will I help?**
The Credit Risk Models develops and maintains a range of credit risk models including risk estimate models (PD, LGD and EAD) and portfolio models that drive credit capital and provisioning for the Westpac Group. This position exists to oversee the development of credit portfolio models and methodologies utilised for stress testing. The role of Modeller will report into the Executive Manager, Risk Analytics and be part of the stress testing team.
Key responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Develop statistical credit risk models (Probability of Default and, Loss Given Default) to establish and maintain 'best practice' risk management, including
- Responsible for ensuring credit risk provisioning models are maintained to a high standard to facilitate compliance with legislation, regulatory requirements, governance frameworks and policies
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with managers to ensure our projects, business-as-usual activities, governance framework and compliance obligations are conducted in a coordinated manner
- Ensure that all processes, procedures issues and outcomes are appropriately documented and controlled.
**What's in it for me?**
You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. 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?**
- Moderate years of experience within an analytical team or equivalent ideally within financial services industry.
- Analytical experience using programming skills such as SAS, Python, SQL, R, Matlab, or similar
- Tertiary qualifications (Maths/Statistics/Quantitative/Business or other relevant degree)
- Sound data management expertise
**What's it like to work there?**
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.
As an equal chance employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.
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📌 Modeller
🏢 Westpac Group
📍 Sydney