Senior Manager Consumer Partner

Description:

Job Description:

• Permanent assignment
• Sydney based role
• Flexible working arrangements

How will I help?

This role reports into the Expense Services & Processes, CCS Finance team and is a Finance job family role with particular focus on the needs of the Consumer Division. Working with a group of professionals, this role is accountable for delivering strong expense management, capability uplift and financial control through the adherence to policies, processes, and standards; provide financial insights and advice to help our business leaders achieve target outcomes; and build and maintain strong relationships with our stakeholders.

The Expense Services & Processes team performs activities including reporting, forecasting, analytics, investment management, cost allocations, spend management and expense transformation delivery. In addition, the team partners into finance and the business to deliver against non-standard, forward-looking and commercially material business priorities.

You will support the Consumer Division Finance and your team to uplift capability for expense management through enhancement of services and processes across the financial management cycle and partner with key stakeholders to empower the group to deliver on its ongoing cost accountabilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with Consumer Division Finance teams in the context of end to end Expense Management
• Provide decision support leveraging your offshore team members and service and process peers in the Expense Services and Processes team.
• With Group Finance, formalise finance guardrails around finance activities and embed with Finance and the Business
• Ensure corporate reporting and financial reporting risk is well-managed including any required financial control uplift to strengthen our Financial Control Framework, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and supporting Value Chain framework and deliver high quality and effective services and efficient processes
• Establish and embed the service catalogue and service level agreements for standard activities
• Establish an effective operating rhythm (time, quality, value) to deliver to strategic or ad hoc activities
• Lead the stopping, standardisation, simplification, and digitisation (SSSD) of finance activity (reporting, forecasting and analytics services and processes) related to investment management with the support of the Finance job family
• Collaborate across Expense Services and Processes team to ensure standard expense management services and processes are meeting Consumer Finance needs and set Finance service levels.

What's in it for me?

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure.

Whatever shape your family takes, we 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 continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need?

• Understanding of the Consumer business, cost base and drivers including how these interplay with the broader financial management of the business
• Strong critical thinking and analytics capability focussing on risks and opportunities to commercial value
• Managing large teams including offshore teams
• Senior stakeholder management
• Influencing & negotiating
• Financial expense management subject matter expertise

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 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 .

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

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