Manager, Expense Management

Permanent Full Time
- Sydney Location
- Hybrid working model

**How will I help?**

This role is part of the Expense Management team in the Finance Function. 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 Management team performs activities including month end close, forecasting, analytics, and investment management and partnering. It also delivers services for Group Functions, Lines of Business (LOB), Divisions and the Group.
You will support the Senior Manager, Expense Management to uplift capability for Groupwide expense management through enhancement of expense management services across the financial management cycle and partner with key stakeholders to empower the group to deliver on cost accountabilities.

**Some of the key accountabilities are**:

- Support the delivery of timely, accurate and insightful management reporting to the Group Executives, General Managers, and relevant business partners for Group Functions and Customer & Corporate Services
- Preparation, rationalisation and automation of journal entries to support earlier close of results
- Uplift transparency and efficiency in cost attribution and allocation processes
- Support the execution of risk management and financial control (including SOx) requirements in line with all financial standards, policies, frameworks, and standards
- Ensure process risks in financials and systems processes are escalated promptly
- Support Expense Management team members and other stakeholders to ensure financial and system process improvements are resolved

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 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?**
- Previous experience in financial management and the financial services industry
- Professional accounting qualification completed - CA, CPA or equivalent
- Qualifications in commerce or business-related discipline
- Ability to effectively influence, negotiate and manage expectations with peers and senior team members
- Ability to develop and maintain productive relationships
- Solid understanding of technical finance & accounting competencies
- Understanding of business performance drivers

**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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