Manager, Capital Risk

Manager, Capital Risk

**How will I help?**

As a Manager in the Capital Risk team you will work with a wide range of stakeholders to provide line 2 oversight, guidance and review and challenge across the Group's end-to-end Capital, Stress Testing and Recovery, Exit and Resolution Planning processes

With the changing Regulatory Landscape on both Capital and Recovery Planning, there is great opportunity to drive key discussion with multiple stakeholders across the Group and your expertise will enable the Capital Risk team to lead change and generate ideas to improve risk management processes

Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to:

- Supporting the Executive Manager, Capital Risk & Recovery Planning in fulfilling the Risk purpose to provide leading risk oversight and insight
- Enable the team to provide oversight and enhance the Group's **Recovery and Exit Plan **through activities such as,
- proactively researching and adopting industry / global best practices
- Provide risk expertise to support the Group's functions and divisions to comply with regulatory requirements for recovery and exit planning
- Provide guidance and oversight to offshore teams for subsidiary Plans
- Support the team to provide Line 2 oversight, review and challenge guidance to the Group's **Capital Stress Testing** and Industry Stress Testing processes.
- Other General responsibilities may include:

- Understanding the key regulatory standards for capital, stress testing and Recovery, Exit and Resolution Planning
- Review and contribute to papers for Executive Risk committees the Westpac Board and regulators as required
- Support internal and external audit processes
- Build and maintain strong and trusted relationships with peers and key stakeholders
- Enable the capital risk team to conduct appropriate review and challenge of business proposals including the **Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)** and other capital related activities, such as
- Analyse and investigate trends and variances in capital risk metrics
- Develop and maintain analytical tools used for risk analysis
- Contribute to development of the Capital Risk Frameworks & policies

**What's in it for you?**

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?**

A successful applicant will bring relevant and thorough Finance, Accounting, Treasury Or capital risk experience (either line 1 or 2) and working knowledge of bank capital management and prudential risk topics.

You will be liaising with cross functional teams, group risk, and wider teams; as well as with varied levels of seniority. It is imperative you bring excellent communication skills in both written and verbal platform combined with the ability to present information articulately both formally and informally.

Lastly, a proven experience in meeting deliverables and tracking objectives will be highly desirable, as a pragmatic mindset combined with apt problem solving will ensure success across both team and individual deadlines.

**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.

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Job ID 300001872539956