Head of Risk, Cib

Permanent, full time
- Sydney location
- Supportive team environment

**How will I help?**

We have an excellent opportunity for a Head of Risk to join our Westpac Institutional Banking (WIB) second line risk team.

You will provide independent non-financial risk oversight to the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) and Global Transactional Services (GTS) including operational risk, ensuring risk decisions remain consistent with risk appetite, enabling development and monitoring of a strong risk culture, embedding the 3LoD model, and embedding supporting frameworks and policies into the second line to meet regulatory and governance requirements.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Provide 2LOD Oversight over WIB line of businesses (CIB, GTS), WIB Finance and NZ Branch.
- Provide oversight of key WIB line of business artefacts including the risk profile, risk appetite statement and risk management framework implementation.
- Provide independent advice and support to the relevant LoB Leadership Teams on risk appetite, risk profile and control environment.
- Provide 2nd line independent challenge and oversight of the design and implementation of material projects within WIB to ensure that risks are well managed and controls are appropriately designed, tested and implemented. Full oversight of High-risk projects as agreed with divisional CRO and delivered risk oversight of all projects impacting the control environment.
- Drive embedding, monitoring and continuous improvement of the Risk Management Framework and key supporting policies to achieve business objectives in line with regulatory and policy requirements.
- Improve risk involvement in execution to simplify and speed delivery
- In partnership with WIB risk teams, ensure regular Board and Executive reporting to ensure the appropriate governance and escalation of key issues, emerging risks and incidents.
- Act as a central contact point for WIB 2LOD, co-ordinating activities across the risk profile to support a holistic approach to risk management
- Represent WIB Risk on key initiatives as agreed with the divisional CRO and as outlined in annual oversight plans

**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 of creating 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, 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?**
- 15+ years global risk and compliance experience in a major financial institution
- Deep understanding of Banking international Compliance and Regulatory requirements
- Deep understanding of financial sector trends and disruption
- Demonstrated Risk and Compliance experience
- Experience in Payments and Corporate and Institutional Banking.
- Strategy development and execution
- Strong business acumen with a commercial approach
- Ability to establish close networks and working relationships across the Westpac Group
- Broad financial sector experience including risk challenges, trends, competitive & regulatory environment
- Strong leadership and people management
- Ability to influence others to drive results
- Highest level of senior stakeholder management
- Superior presentation and communication skills
- Demonstrated success leading cultural transformation and driving major change
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Experience in a similar role is preferred
- The ability to meet constantly changing deadlines and prioritise workloads while being able to use one owns initiative
- Well developed analytical skills to identify business requirements, solve complex problems
- Ability to liaise with all levels of staff, external clients and build relationships
- Excellent negotiation & influencing skills
- Strong customer focus
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to prioritise workloads

**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.

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