Description:
Description- Full time 12-month fixed term contract opportunity
- Sydney based and hybrid working
- Lead risk management and provide key insights as a Senior Manager in our Cash & Transactional Banking team!
How will I help?
In this 12-month fixed term or secondment opportunity as a Senior Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the Governance and Reporting team within the Cash & Transactional Banking Line (CTB) of Business (LoB). This role provides the business and the CTB LT with risk support for all elements of the operational risk management framework, including risk reporting, monitoring compliance with risk frameworks and analysis of risk data to provide insights to the business.
As a dedicated risk professional, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our business operations and risk management practices are in line with the Group's frameworks, policies, risk strategy, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite.
Reporting to the Executive Manager, Governance and Reporting, your responsibilities will include:
- Support the delivery of Group and divisional programs, including the Privacy Program
- Lead all aspects of the annual refresh of the CTB Risk Appetite Statement and promote its use in business decisions
- Conduct semi-annual Risk Management Framework Maturity assessments
- Assist in LoB and divisional risk committee reporting
- Prepare attestations for Managing Director support and approval
- Perform annual Risk Culture self-assessments
- Develop and be responsible for action plans to uplift risk culture and maturity
- Implement the policy monitoring plan for CTB to ensure compliance.
- Improve compliance awareness and understanding across CTB BCM
What’s in it for me?
Joining Westpac means being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation where your contributions are valued, and your career can thrive. As a Senior Manager, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the future of our Governance and Reporting team within the Cash & Transactional Banking Line of Business. You'll have the opportunity to develop and refine your skills in risk reporting, compliance monitoring, and data analysis, positioning yourself as a key player in the industry.
You’ll be set up for success in your transition to the role. With a team of 7 Sydney-based colleagues, you’ll collaborate in person in our Barangaroo office to re-group and engage with multiple stakeholders across a number of teams at any given time, including your Business & Control Monitoring colleagues, the product teams, Line 2 and the Division Chief Operating Office teams.
Additionally, whatever shape your family takes, we’ll offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we’ll continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
To excel as a Senior Manager at Westpac, you should bring extensive experience, ideally within the banking or financial services sector. We are looking for a seasoned professional with a robust background in risk and compliance advisory. While relevant industry qualifications in risk, compliance, or business-related fields are desirable, they are not essential. Your expertise and experience will be key in driving our commitment to excellence and regulatory adherence.
Further advantageous qualities and experience includes:
- Ability to complete work and make decisions (within delegated boundaries) autonomously
- Demonstrable experience of translating the complex into the simple and communicating with passion
- Developing or applying risk policies with a flair for detail and nuance
- Ability to establish relationships, work as part of a team and quickly adopt feedback
- Proactive, organised and outcomes focused
- Customer and team focused with a passion for mentoring and coaching
- Ability to achieve objectives in a changing environment
- Commercial savvy
What’s it like to work there?
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
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How do I apply?
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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au
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