James Hennessey
Senior Business Analyst at Westpac Institutional Bank
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hennessey is a Senior Business Analyst with over 28 years in financial services and 14 years of dedicated analytics and BA experience, currently focused on risk, compliance and data quality at Westpac Institutional Bank. He specialises in data migration, process and application design, and pragmatic use of tools such as Power BI, R and SQL to strengthen risk reporting and conflicts-of-interest systems. Comfortable working across Agile frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), he bridges business and technical teams to deliver auditable, secure solutions involving cloud and ETL ecosystems. His background spans market and credit risk, regulatory reporting (VaR, stress testing), and system ownership across platforms like Algorithmics, Murex and CAMS. James is continually upskilling—pursuing a Bachelor of Data Analytics and holding multiple Agile and cloud certifications—which complements a practical interest in startups, AI and computer vision seen in his GitHub pursuits. He brings an uncommon combination of deep risk-domain knowledge, hands-on data tooling, and long-term institutional perspective that helps turn complex regulatory requirements into operational systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Financial Markets Finance General, Financial Markets Finance General at AFMAGraduate Certificate in Finance - Economic Analysis for Business Finance General, Graduate Certificate in Finance - Economic Analysis for Business Finance General at RMIT UniversityCertificate IV Computer Programming/Programmer General, Certificate IV Computer Programming/Programmer General at TAFE NSWBachelor of Data Analytics (currently studying) Data Analytics, Bachelor of Data Analytics (currently studying) Data Analytics at University of South AustraliaMoney market Treasury Operations for Derivative Products, Money market Treasury Operations for Derivative Products at Securities Institute Of AustraliaInformation Systems Fundamentals, Information Systems Fundamentals at Swinburne University of TechnologyAccounting for Financial Decision Making, Accounting for Financial Decision Making at Monash University
Github Skills (81)
simulator10
mnist10
sentiment-analysis10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
sentiment10
rendering9
carla9
nlp9
computer-vision9
unreal-engine-49
computer-graphics9
transcript9
autonomous-driving9
ros9
simulation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JWHennessey/JWHennessey.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
JWHennessey/meshmixer
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:64 commits in 19 days
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