Head of Property

**How will I help?**

The Head of Property and Security Governance is responsible for ensuring appropriate governance and compliance in project delivery and services performed by Group’s Property & Security for Westpac. This spans, project management, change and communications management, data management, supplier governance and operational risk management. The objective of the role is to maintain high standards of compliance and governance and ensure all teams (including outsourced providers) operate within process, meet service levels and maintain high levels of performance while supporting the teams continuous improvement and achieving strategic goals.

The Property and Security governance team comprises of operational risk, project management office and compliance experts. The team drive a culture of excellence, governance and compliance by ensuring projects and service catalogue items are delivered within process, delegations of authority, service levels and costs.

In this role you will take responsibility for:

- Overseeing the governance of property and security projects and operations, ensuring they are delivered in line with agreed processes, time, scope, service levels and budget
- Developing and delivering communications related to property and security initiatives.
- Overseeing data management to enable accurate and timely reporting and insights
- Overseeing the governance and management of all the Group’s property and security services providers to ensure best practice performance is delivered and robust controls measures are in place.

The Head of Property and Security Governance is accountable for ensuring governance and assurance of all property and security projects and operations; implementing effective change management and communication strategies; ensuring data is appropriate managed to enable accurate analytics and reporting; maintaining strong governance and control over suppliers; and identifying and mitigating risks effectively.

**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?**

You will have demonstrable experience in property management with a focus on governance and project delivery. To find success in the role, it is imperative that you have excellent project management and leadership capabilities. You will have exceptionally strong strategic planning, operational risk, process excellent, compliance and governance skills, gained through leading governance activities. You will have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills. Fastidious about accurate and comprehensive data management, you’re also dedicated to creating environments with high standards of operational performance and efficiency. You will be familiar with the delivery of robust supplier governance and compliance. You’re a motivated leader who will thrive in the effective management of change and clear communication across Property & Security teams.

**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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