Lead Business Analyst

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Lead Business Analyst.

This role will play a crucial part of the UNITE team. UNITE is our business-led, tech-enabled transformation, and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering 'one best way' to make our processes, systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.

• Location: Sydney/Gadigal-based role only

• On-site Requirement: 3 days in the office per week

• Why On-site? This is a highly collaborative position involving regular face-to-face workshops and close team interaction, making in-office presence essential.

What’s the role?

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will lead business and data analysis activities across strategic initiatives, driving high‑quality, scalable, and compliant solutions. Acting as a bridge between business and technology, you will ensure requirements are clearly defined, solutions align to business objectives, and delivery outcomes meet enterprise standards. You will provide strong leadership across initiatives while promoting consistent analysis practices and supporting effective execution.

Additionally, you'll mentor senior and junior business analysts, conduct peer reviews of analysis artefacts, and define best‑practice frameworks to ensure quality and consistency. You will partner closely with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to shape solution design, translate requirements into user stories, process flows, and data mappings, and validate solutions to ensure they are fit for purpose.

You will engage stakeholders across business and technology, support data analysis, migration, and governance initiatives, and contribute to delivery, risk, regulatory, and governance reporting within Agile or hybrid environments

What do I need?

• Previous experience as a senior or lead business analyst

• Solid understanding of data migration, transformation, governance, and data quality principles

• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language

• Strong working knowledge of SQL and data querying concepts, with the ability to read, interpret, and validate queries

• Experience with enterprise data platforms and reporting tools such as Teradata and Power BI

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments, supporting structured documentation and high attention to detail

Why join us?

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

Create your future today

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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