Executive Manager, Operational Risk, Gts Digital

Executive Manager, Operational Risk, GTS Digital and Data

**Executive Manager - Operational Risk GTS**
- Permanent I Sydney
- Experienced Executive Manager role
- Support Global Transactional Services (GTS) & WIB Digital Transformation.

**How will I help?**

Join the Operational Risk Team for Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB) as a 2nd Line Operational Risk Executive Manager, specialising in Global Transactional Services (GTS) and WIB Digital Transformation.

This role exists to provide 2nd line risk oversight and advice over the digital and data business activities in Westpac One Core and Westpac One Programs to ensure the appropriate risk identification, documentation, and management of risks by the business. This will be in accordance with Operational Risk Management Framework and other polices under the Risk Management Framework including management of Prudential Standards.

The scope of the role focuses specially on digital and data risks arising through business activity including product development and transformation initiatives (specifically WIB's digital transformation strategy). A key focus will be on risks arising through change delivered by the program through incremental releases, working with business, and stakeholders for assessing impacts and reviewing controls and mitigations.

Core responsibilities:

- To provide the businesses with specialist, outcome-focused risk and control oversight and advice that ensures complete and accurate risk and issue capture, optimises risk-reward balance and contributes to the attainment of business strategy and objectives.
- To provide independent Line 2 oversight of the effectiveness of the business' operational risk management practices.
- To lead thematic analysis across risks, providing specialist guidance from these reviews.
- 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 challenge and oversight business transformation initiatives, whether product or project driven, to ensure the risks delivered through change are adequately controlled.

**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?**
- 7+ years of operational risk in change advisory experience in any WIB business, or in another financial services organisation; or
- 9+ years of operational risk experience with Investment Banking exposure from another financial institution.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of investment banking activity and associated processes.
- Demonstrable experience of influencing senior business leadership teams, strategic thinking, and prioritisation
- Relevant industry qualifications.

**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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Job ID 300002261152560