Head of Trade

Sydney Based
- Full-Time Permanent role
- Hybrid working model (2-3 days in office)

**How will I help?**

Are you ready to lead and shape the future of risk management within the Westpac Group? Reporting directly to the National GM Working Capital, this pivotal role oversees the comprehensive risk management of our Invoice Finance and Trade Finance lending portfolios.

As the Head of Trade & Invoice Finance Risk and Operations, you will be instrumental in driving the training and development of our team, ensuring exceptional service delivery to clients, and maximizing the profitability of our portfolio.

Work with teams to ensure new lending meets standards. Review and recommend Credit Applications. Provide risk input for new customer lending requests. Join us and make a significant impact on our business and clients.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Minimising compliance risk, operational risk, and reputation risk within overall portfolio
- Comply with legislative and regulatory obligations and the banks operational, compliance and audit risk framework.
- Understand issues and opportunities facing business customers by interacting with network and working with customers to resolve issues.
- Ensuring the quality of service and support provided to customers is of the highest standard.
- Build strong stakeholder relations within the bank to ensure focus is to achieve win outcomes for the bank and the end customers
- Meet portfolio quality and bad debt targets.
- Ensuring appropriate action is taken on exit accounts or accounts at risk.

**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?**
- Proven leadership experience, with a focus on implementing and embedding change.
- Business lending background, ideally with a focus on Invoice Finance and/or Trade Finance
- Strong capacity for numerical and analytical thinking
- In-depth knowledge of legal, statutory, and regulatory frameworks related to insolvency, debt recovery, and Invoice Finance
- Comprehensive understanding of operational risk and compliance

**What is 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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