Executive Manager, Transformational Initiatives

Executive Manager, Transformational Initiatives, Risk Oversight
- Permanent
- Sydney/Melbourne I Hybrid (2-3 days in Office)
- Exciting time in Risk Oversight as we support the simplification of our offering to customers through technology

**How will I help?**

Due to growth in transformation initiatives across Westpac Group, we are growing our 2nd Line of Defence to strengthen our team over this period of exciting change. Multiple roles available with responsibility to provide oversight of a range of transformational programs across multiple business lines.

As an Executive Manager in Group Risk, you will play a key role in the provision of insight, oversight, and challenge of key initiatives, including UNITE, our multi-year technology simplification program. You will be responsible for the review and challenge of business initiatives, reporting for program forums, risk committees and ad hoc requirements. Additional responsibilities will include:

- Attending workstream or initiative steering committees, in addition to regular attendance at Line of Business or Business Unit portfolio committees.
- To challenge and oversight BAU and UNITE change initiatives, whether product or project driven, to ensure the risks delivered through change are adequately controlled.
- To provide the business with insights into emerging risks arising from potential changes in business strategy, thematic reviews of internal events, key external learnings, or changes in inherent risk environment.
- To drive and support the innovation of risk management solutions which are simpler as a foundation for competitive advantage, as well as being aligned and integrated across business units.

**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 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 be a passionate risk professional, with proven risk experience in a financial services environment, including large scale technology transformation. You will demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and the ability to thrive in a demanding and fast-moving project delivery environment where the Customer and Risk Management is core to delivery.

**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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