The Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst supports the NSW Department of Education's day-to-day finance, accounting and cashflow operations.
Based in Parramatta, the role covers invoices, payments, financial transactions, budgets, forecasts, team workload, management reporting, stakeholder advice and service improvements across the EDConnect finance function.
This can be a strong government transition role for an experienced shared-services, banking-operations, cash-management or finance-operations professional.
The panel is likely to compare applicants on more than transaction knowledge.
The role needs someone who can interpret data, advise stakeholders, manage a busy operational service and improve the system behind the daily workload.
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Applications require a resume of no more than five pages, a cover letter of no more than two pages and two pre-screening responses of up to 300 words each.
The ongoing full-time role pays $116,981 to $129,492 plus superannuation and annual leave loading, and closes at *****pm on Tuesday 8 September ****.
Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst Role Snapshot
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Role title Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst
Organisation / Entity NSW Department of Education
Job location Parramatta, with flexible work and mandatory office presence for business requirements
Job reference number ****** / **************
Work type Ongoing full-time
Salary package $116,981 to $129,492 plus superannuation and annual leave loading
Verdict:
Existing Education or government shared-services candidates may bring direct knowledge of local systems and approvals, but the role has a transparent private-sector comparison.
Senior analysts and team leads from transaction banking, treasury operations, accounts operations, payment services and high-volume shared-service centres can be highly credible when they show accounting depth, customer judgement and continuous improvement.
You could be very competitive if...
You have owned a complex cashflow or finance-operations problem,



use advanced Excel or Power BI to find the cause, and can explain how the analysis changed stakeholder action.
Experience monitoring daily team workload while improving controls or service performance is particularly close to the role.
What a transferable candidate should make obvious
State the transaction volume, value, service users, controls, systems and time pressure.
Explain how your work protected both financial accuracy and customer experience.
A banking or commercial candidate should also show that they can work within policy, prepare concise briefings and communicate with governance or management forums.
What is probably not enough
A technically strong analyst may still fall short if all examples end with producing a spreadsheet.
The role expects advice, operational oversight and improvement.
Likewise, team coordination without accounting or cashflow depth is unlikely to compete.
If your Excel and Power BI claims are limited to basic reports, the first 300-word question will be difficult to answer convincingly.
Your application test
Can you describe a financial or cashflow issue where you structured the analysis yourself, found something that was not obvious and secured stakeholder action?
Can you pair it with a different example where you met a hard transaction deadline and still improved the process?
Those are the two stories the application is explicitly designed to test.
Application Requirements For Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst
Cover letter, maximum 2 pages, outlining how you meet the role requirements and capabilities
Pre-screening response, maximum 300 words, on solving a complex financial or cashflow problem using advanced Excel or Power BI and presenting the findings to stakeholders




Pre-screening response, maximum 300 words, on balancing daily transaction processing with a continuous-improvement initiative under tight deadlines
Tertiary qualification or relevant experience in administration, finance and accounting or a relevant discipline, and/or demonstrated successful stakeholder or customer-engagement experience in a shared-services or contact-centre environment
Proven experience across accounting and finance functions, with sound knowledge of accounting principles, financial data processing and reporting
Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education
Australian work rights under the conditions stated in the vacancy
Pre-employment National Criminal History Check and Working with Children Check conditions for the successful candidate
NSW Government Candidate Requirements
The role joins analytical work with operational service.
Panels often receive applications that demonstrate one side but leave the other unclear.
Make sure your evidence shows that you can understand the data, maintain financial control, help people act on the answer and keep the daily service moving.
Candidate Requirements For Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst
Evidence area
How to demonstrate it
Cashflow and finance operations Describe the payments, invoices, transactions or cash position you managed and the controls around them.
Advanced analysis Show the Excel or Power BI techniques you used, why you chose them and what the analysis revealed.
Stakeholder advice Explain how you turned technical findings into a clear recommendation and secured action.
Operational leadership Demonstrate how you monitored workload, managed priorities or supported a team during a high-volume period.
Briefings and reporting Use an example of concise correspondence, management reporting or advice for a governance forum.
Continuous improvement Show a change that improved efficiency, control, timeliness or customer experience while operations continued.
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📌 Senior Transactional Banking Services Analyst (New South Wales)
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📍 New South Wales