Job Description

This role can be based in Syndey or Melbourne.

Westpac Institutional Bank Technology supports the Financial Markets business through the delivery, operation, and ongoing enhancement of critical trading, risk, post-trade, regulatory, and data platforms. The Murex platform is a core Financial Markets capability supporting Front-to-Back trade processing, operational control, risk management, financial reporting, and regulatory outcomes across institutional markets products

What’s the Role:

Provide senior Murex Back Office specialist capability to support Financial Markets delivery, controls, and production stability. The role translates business and operational requirements into practical Murex outcomes across settlements, confirmations, accounting, lifecycle events, workflows, and downstream integrations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of Murex Back Office initiatives across analysis, configuration, testing, implementation and production support activities.
• Translate business, operational, risk and regulatory requirements into clear functional solutions, documentation and system enhancements.
• Provide expertise across post-trade processes including confirmations, settlements, payments, accounting, lifecycle events and workflow management.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, trade exceptions, reconciliation breaks, integration defects and operational incidents.
• Partner with stakeholders across Front Office, Operations, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Technology to deliver business-critical outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement through automation, knowledge sharing, peer review and the enhancement of Murex platform capabilities.

What do I need?

• Strong experience delivering Murex Back Office solutions within Financial Markets environments, supporting trade processing, settlements, confirmations and accounting functions.
• Solid understanding of Front-to-Back trade flows, STP processes, static data management, controls and downstream system integrations.
• Proven experience supporting a range of institutional markets products, with strong analytical capabilities across trade breaks, production issues and workflow exceptions.
• Ability to create high-quality requirements, solution documentation, process flows, test plans, implementation artefacts and support materials.
• Technical exposure to SQL, data analysis, automation, MxML Exchange, batch processing, monitoring tools and workflow management is highly regarded.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills, with a focus on risk management, regulatory compliance, production stability and continuous improvement.

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.
  

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