Executive Director, AI & Quant Analytics
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Job Summary
Create your best future as an Executive Director AI and Quant Analytics!
Whats the role
The Executive Director AI and Quant Analytics plays a key role in shaping applying and interpreting quantitative models and analytics that support pricing risk portfolio and strategic decision making across Commodities Trade and Transition (CTT). This role is for an experienced quantitative analyst who combines strong analytical depth market understanding and commercial judgement working closely with trading risk and quantitative engineering partners to ensure analytics are economically sound explainable and decision relevant. The role focuses on model insight analytical leadership and business partnership rather than core platform or software engineering ownership. This role focuses on analytics that inform real pricing risk and portfolio decisions engaging directly with stakeholders helping shape real outcomes.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Quantitative Analysis & Modelling:Lead analytical investigations into model behaviour sensitivities limitations and economic realism.
- Analytics Insight & Decision Support: Translate complex quantitative outputs into clear insights recommendations and trade-offs for Markets and Risk stakeholders.
- Model Governance & Control:Take accountability for model documentation assumptions validation evidence and ongoing performance assessment.
- Markets Partnership & Thought Leadership:Provide guidance and mentoring to junior analysts uplifting analytical standards across the team.
What do I need
This role suits a commercially minded quantitative professional with a strong academic foundation and handson experience applying analytical models in financial services. Youll bring the ability to balance technical rigour with practical decisionmaking and to communicate complex ideas clearly to a broad range of stakeholders.
Additional experience and skills include:
- Strong grounding in applied quantitative techniques including statistics probability and optimisation
- Experience applying pricing risk or portfolio models within banking or financial markets environments
- Proficiency in Python or R for quantitative analysis and modelling
- The ability to explain complex analytical and quantitative concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences
- Sound judgement in balancing analytical depth with realworld commercial needs
- It is desirable to have exposure to commodities trade finance derivatives or structured products
- Strong SQL capability and experience working with large complex datasets is ideal
- Familiarity with model validation model risk or governance frameworks would be advantageous
- Exposure to machine learning or advanced analytics in applied environments
- Experience collaborating closely with quantitative or software engineering teams
- Strong engineering capability in Python with proficiency in at least one of C Java or C#
- Advanced SQL skills and confidence working with largescale dataintensive workloads
- Solid grounding in applied mathematics statistics probability or optimisation
- Proven experience building scalable productiongrade analytics systems
- Background in quantitative development analytics engineering or frontoffice analytics within financial services
- It is desirable for you to have experience with cloud platforms preferably Azure and modern CI/CD practices
- You will ideally have exposure to machine learning tooling (such as PyTorch or TensorFlow) and LLM frameworks
- 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.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Westpac has a long and proud history as Australia's first and oldest bank. It was established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales under a charter of incorporation provided by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In October 1982 it changed its name to Westpac Banking Corporation following th ... View more