AddressPosition: Business Analyst - Treasury
Reporting to: Head of Funding Solutions
Location: Sydney/ Hybrid
Meet Athena, the Home Loan Wrecker
Athena Home Loans burst into the industry in 2019 to shake things up and change home loans for good.
We're reimagining home loans and showing Australia there's a lender on their side. Home loans are all we do. We continue to rewrite the rules of home lending, creating tools, products and policy that put the power back in our customers' hands. Athena has been recognised amongst multiple consumer lending and industry awards including Canstar Outstanding Value and Innovation Excellence awards, RateCity and Mozo awards, and Fintech Lender of the year and made AFR Boss best places to work list.
We place the power of independence in our customers’ hands and in yours. At Athena, you shape the pace and the place shapes you. Can-do and will-do, every person makes a big difference. Released from traditional hierarchy and norms, you’re free to be the person you know you are and want to be. Athena adds layers to your learning, not layers of bureaucracy, so you can do what you do best.
If you’re looking to shake things up and make a difference in a diverse, unified team with no elbows, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced analyst to help run and develop the capabilities, processes, reporting, and technology solutions that underpin our successful asset and liability program now and into the future.
Primarily working within Treasury and Finance teams but also across the broader business as an agent of change responding to the demands of an evolving lending business and it’s diverse funding program, while also providing technical expertise and support to day to day funding operations.
To be successful in the role you will have a passion for analysis and understanding how things work, first to roll your sleeves up diving into the detail, improving existing processes and gaining insights as to the levers we can pull to manage risk and optimise performance. This role will be critical for preparing Athena to scale up and enter the next phase of our growth.
What you will do
- Requirements Management: Be a key player between multiple internal and external stakeholders ensuring that requirements are catalogued, captured, and delivered to expectations.
- Operating Landscape: Have an end-to-end understanding of our processes and the upstream/downstream dependencies, ensuring our processes are well documented and risks and controls actively identified and managed.
- Reporting Landscape: Have a deep understanding of our data-model and how that translates to our reporting requirements, ensuring reporting is catalogued and specifications documented and change controlled.
- Treasury & Financial Analysis: Conduct analysis and produce data driven insights supporting core treasury/finance operations and management decisions.
- Operational Excellence: Identify and implement process improvements to increase the efficiency and quality of treasury and finance outcomes.
- Planning & Strategy: Partner with the Head of Funding Solutions in creating and maintaining our reference architecture and developing and refining the debt funding roadmap guiding the development agenda.
- Stakeholder Management: Be responsible for treasury and finance impacts and input for external change, you will work with product and engineering to ensure continuous engagement and alignment of requirements and delivery outcomes.
What will help you succeed
- Bachelor/advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, engineering or a related field
- Minimum 3+ years experience in business/product analysis in financial services
- Direct experience in structured finance, securitisation, or financial markets highly regarded
- Inquisitive and thrive in an environment with a steep learning curve
- Desire to deeply understand commerciality and risk
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail
- Self-organising and autonomous operating rhythm while reporting up
- Proven track record in improving processes and delivering against deadlines
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to work with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to think strategically and implement initiatives focusing on business outcomes
- Intermediate/advanced proficiency in excel, SQL, business intelligence tools
Benefits & Perks
- Inclusive, Flexible and casual working environment
- Hybrid working with HQ Anchor Days in award winning office space
- Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health
- Perks program with access to discounts to every day expenses
- Fantastic team culture with monthly events
At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.
