Executive Manager, Credit Policy

Executive Manager, Credit Policy

**Executive Manager, Credit Policy Governance**
- Permanent opportunity
- Sydney location
- Hybrid working model

**How will I help?**

As an Executive Manager, Credit Policy Governance, you will help in driving the uplift of governance practices within the context of our overarching Credit Risk Management Framework and Strategy. The role requires putting in place practices that will help manage, uplift and improve our overarching control framework. This includes monitoring and reporting, policy publishing practices, stakeholder communication and training.

You will also be required to provide policy advice and support the effective implementation of frameworks and policies

**Some of the key accountabilities are**:

- Development, review and maintenance of key frameworks including: Credit Risk Management Framework, Credit Risk Management Strategy, Credit Risk Appetite Statement, Credit Approval Authority Limit (CAL) Framework, Policy Exceptions Framework, and Hindsighting Framework
- Managing the overall governance framework across Group Credit Policy including but not limited to: developing, maintaining, evaluating and testing key controls impacting the credit policy function, CAL management (credit approval authority limit) and annual review.
- Contributing to Credit Policy's compliance and supporting the Group's overall compliance with regulatory prudential standards
- Communicating credit policy changes including impacts and rationale to stakeholders

**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?**
- Extensive experience in credit risk policy, and risk governance development and implementation
- Strong experience in people management
- Knowledge of APRA'S prudential regulations (advantageous)
- Advanced writing skills including attention to detail and accuracy and ability to convert complex technical content into simple and unambiguous statements
- Exceptional time management and planning, and ability to respond effectively to ad-hoc requests

**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.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

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Job ID 300002929110205