Em, Business Controls

**How will I help?**

Westpac Group Risk plays a critical role in identifying, monitoring, and managing a range of risks. We provide expert advice and help our business partners make informed decisions. We ensure that however or wherever we operate, we have controls and frameworks to protect our business and our customers.

The Executive Manager role plays a leadership role in driving, implementing and managing risk management and monitoring obligations, supporting consistent implementation, and embedding of risk management frameworks, policies and controls.

This role is also responsible for partnering with key stakeholders on all matters risk and control, developing pragmatic solutions to risk and control problems through to implementation.

It is an expectation to promote a strong risk culture that embodies our ethics and integrity, balancing commercial and customer needs.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide senior risk expertise to the business in the identification, assessment, actioning and remediation of risk issues to drive a strong risk and controls culture that helps achieve business objectives.
- Support the proactive and effective monitoring, management and reporting of current and emerging risks and facilitate a strong risk culture, risk awareness and ownership of risk throughout the business.
- Oversee the coordination of risk forums and reporting requirements to support operational risk management activities
- Support the development of the business' risk profile and operation within risk appetite, including defining and operationalising relevant RAS metrics, and develop and implementing plans to achieve this.
- Work closely with key senior stakeholders to identify and enable more efficient and effective risk practices in the business.
- Provide risk expertise to the business in the identification, assessment, and actioning of risk issues to drive a strong risk culture that helps achieve business objectives.
- Provide risk expertise to support the business with regulatory requests and remediation.
- Support the business in the delivery of remediation programs.
- Partner with the business in the identification, assessment and control of delivery risks through change.
- Provide insights and reporting for risk committees and board risk committees.

**What’s in it for me?**

You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world’s great service companies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.

**What do I need?**
- 10 years work experience
- Experienced risk management professional with strong banking/ financial services / risk assessment experience, including a material risk policy component related to the relevant risk class.
- Tertiary qualifications preferred
- Quality assurance
- Proactive, organised and outcomes focussed
- Customer focus
- Ability to think strategically and be innovative
- Ability to achieve objectives in a changing environment
- Risk Culture development and execution

**Risk Specific Competencies**
- **Risk Management**:

- **Regulatory Requirements**:

- understanding of the financial services regulatory landscape
- **Compliance**:

- **Operational Risk**:

- **Business Acumen**:

- **Collaboration**:

- builds effective relationships to achieve strategic objectives
- **Influencing and Negotiating**:

- skilled at successful negotiating with stakeholders to meet the strategic objectives of the team
- **Leadership**:

- proven ability to deliver the best possible results for the organisation
- **Planning and Quality**:

- manages self and others to a high quality and stated timeframes
- **Problem Solving**:

- adept at solving complex, multi-faceted organisational problems
- **Stakeholder Management**:

- ability to effectively manage and satisfy multiple completing stakeholders

**What is it like to work in Westpac?**

As well as good pay 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?**

The health and wellbeing of our employees is our top priority. We’ve developed clear standards to ensure our people are confident, safe and healthy whether they’re working from a Westpac Group site or working from home. These are based on expert medical advice and Safe Work Australia guidelines.

Our people are our highest priority