Manager, Product Solutions - Data and Analytics

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.  

At Rabobank, our culture is unique, because every day our people work knowing that we are all playing our part in supporting our farmers to feed the world. Our culture is focused on growing each other. We strive to create an open, balanced, and flexible workplace where people feel that they belong, can be open and honest and are supported.

Rabobank Australia has recently been awarded 18th place in LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2023: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Australia. We are extremely proud of this achievement, as it reflects the investment in our people, their growth and development.

About the role

This role will be responsible for analysing data to deliver key business insights and impact assessments as a part of business solution design or an issue investigation. The person in this role will have to work with stakeholders across business, operations, compliance, legal, risk and IT team.

The person in this role will help the bank in realising its vision of “Excellent Customer Focus” and “Rock Solid Bank” by playing a critical role in designing business solutions and investigating regulatory and operational issues identified through regular course of business and sophisticated data analysis.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Gain an in-depth understanding of systems, data flows and product, customer and transaction data objects stored across data stores for Country Banking, Rabobank Online Savings and Wholesale business lines.
• Identify system and corresponding data objects to be analysed for deriving business insights in relation to a business change or for investigating a specific business issue
• Use exploratory and statistical data analysis techniques to analyse large volumes of Data and derive key insights to support business decision making.
• Conduct impact assessment as a part of investigating potential regulatory breaches and business issues.
• Hold workshops to enable and advocate for data quality and data definitions.
• Visualisation and story boarding of results from data analysis and exploration.
• Contribute towards writing papers for the executive committee and regulatory responses.

To be successful in the role, you will have:

• Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in data science, information systems or any equivalent engineering discipline
• Experience in a financial services environment
• Experience in a data analyst role within the business
• Experience of working and presenting to senior stakeholders
• General understanding of regulatory environment in Australia and regulatory requirements from ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC
• Practical knowledge data analysis tools such as Python, SQL, Excel, etc. 
• Practical knowledge of visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• General understanding of business analysis techniques and methods such as DMAIC
• Practical understanding of Database, Datawarehouse and Data Management concepts
• Good understanding of DMBOK, Source to Target and Data Transformations
• Competent in use of ETL tools such as Informatics, SSIS, for data extraction, transformation and analysis etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills – able to identify an audience’s needs and clearly present concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative, and relationship management skills; an ability to interact at multiple levels

Our Values, Vision, and Mission

Rabobank Australia fully embraces inclusion and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here. We are committed to our values; we are client focussed, action oriented, purposeful, and courageous in our work.  We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning.   We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are.

What we're proud to offer you:

Rabo@Anywhere is our hybrid way of working at Rabobank and for Australia, which means we have a blend of time working between the office and home.

Wellbeing leave. These 2 extra leave days support greater work/life balance and is just another way we are helping our employees to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.

Relocation allowance. If moving for this opportunity relocation allowance and support to assist you get settled into your new home is also on offer.

Education Assistance Program. Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development.

Parental Leave that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (Primary carer up-to 14 weeks paid leave)

Bonus and Additional Leave. We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough! At Rabobank we provide an incentive for eligible employees to receive 1 extra week Annual Leave and an option to purchase another 2 weeks Annual Leave.

Extra Insurance. Rabobank recognises that employees need to protect their financial wellbeing, in the event of serious illness, injury, or even death. Rabobank provides eligible permanent employees with employer-funded Death, TPD and Income Protection Insurance.

Rabo Workplace Giving program. As part of Rabobank's global Corporate Social Responsibility, Workplace Giving aims to encourage employees to contribute to our community. Rabo Workplace Giving program matches employee donations to selected Social Partners.

Rabobank is committed to a culture where diversity and inclusion is valued, respected, and encouraged. We welcome applicants from diverse cultures, faith, and sexual orientation.

If you’d like to discuss how we can make our opportunities more accessible to you, please let a member of the Talent Acquisition team know.

Rabobank is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.

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