Description:
How will I help?
We're on the lookout for an Executive Manager to join our dynamic team in Business Controls & Monitoring within the Group Property division. In this pivotal role, you'll lead a talented team of risk professionals, steering the implementation and management of risk management and monitoring obligations. You'll play a key role in driving and supporting the consistent adoption and integration of risk management frameworks, policies, and controls across the division.
Your partnership with our Senior Leaders, including the BU General Manager, will be crucial. Together, you'll tackle risk and control challenges head-on, crafting pragmatic solutions and seeing strategic ideas through to end-to-end implementation. You'll also champion a strong risk culture that reflects our core values of ethics and integrity, always striking a balance between commercial objectives and customer needs.
In this role, you'll be instrumental in elevating the risk maturity of our business. You'll lead by example, fostering improved risk capability and building a 'community of practice' across our 1st line teams. Ensuring alignment with our frameworks, policies, risk strategy, and regulatory obligations will be second nature to you, as you guide your team in managing risk issues and developing effective action plans.
Your leadership will extend to overseeing risk management and reporting functions, providing vital monitoring and assurance. You'll also play a pivotal role in enhancing our risk governance by facilitating Board and risk committee reporting, ensuring consistency, quality, and effectiveness.
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 grown, 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?
To thrive in this role, you'll need 10-15 years of operational Risk experience, coupled with extensive experience in banking, financial services in risk assessment. Your background should include a significant focus on compliance, risk policy development and quality assurance.
In addition you'll demonstrate strong stakeholder management and relationship skills with the ability to build trust, fostering collaboration, and ensuring successful outcomes.
What is it like to work there?
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion
How do I apply?
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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, 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 call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au