Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring

All roles at Westpac Group can be considered for flexible working arrangements, such as flexible hours, working remotely, part time work, or job sharing.
- Permanent Full-time
- Sydney based - Hybrid working
- Demonstrate your leadership prowess

The Consumer, Customer and Corporate Services (C&CCS) Risk team provides Risk oversight, insight and control for the Consumer division and Customer and Corporate Services division across all Risk classes.
We support the business to execute its strategy within risk appetite, strengthen its control environment, and identify emerging and thematic concerns. Our team is a key contributor to achieving sustainable outcomes for our customers and sustainable success for our business.

**How will I help?**

As Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring, you will perform the lead role in driving, implementing, and managing risk as well as monitoring obligations in Customer and Corporate Services (CCS). Specifically, you will report into the Head of Risk and support the Chief Brand and Marketing office ensuring consistent implementation, and embedding of risk management frameworks, policies and controls.

You will also be responsible for leading and developing a team of Risk professionals to enhance and uplift the first line risk management across Brand and Marketing.

You will also be responsible for partnering with key stakeholders on all matters risk and control, developing pragmatic solutions to risk and control problems through to end-to-end implementation and valued stakeholder engagement.

**Further key responsibilities include**:

- Lead, coach & develop to grow a team of risk professionals ensuring the divisional and business risk management frameworks, metrics, priorities, and strategies are aligned to the Groups risk frameworks, strategy, and appetite
- Provide senior risk expertise to the business in the identification, assessment, actioning, and remediation of risk issues to drive a strong risk and controls culture
- Support the proactive and effective monitoring, management, and reporting of current and emerging risks
- Facilitate a strong risk culture, risk awareness, and ownership of risk throughout the business
- Support the development of the business' risk profile and operation within risk appetite, including defining and operationalising relevant RAS metrics, as well as developing and implementing plans
- Work closely with key senior stakeholders to identify and enable efficient and effective risk practices in the business
- Provide risk expertise to support the business with regulatory requests and remediationProvide insights and reporting for risk committees and board risk committees

**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?**

To be successful in this role, you must be a highly experienced risk manager and people leader from a Banking or Finance background. You must have demonstratable experience in various classes of Operational Risk and have a track record of enhancing processes as well as thinking outside the box. You must also have demonstrable experience as a People Leader with the ability to manage a team, as well as uplift and develop their skills.

**Further key attributes include**:

- Be orientated toward sustainable relationships with key stakeholders
- Have demonstrable experience in working with diverse stakeholders and highly engaged to provide 1LOD risk advice and support
- Be highly engaged and motivated to support team members and stakeholders
- Maintain the ability to think strategically and be innovative
- Have a willingness to be hands on and develop team members and business partners
- Have strong relationship building, teamwork, and negotiation skillsProactive, organised, and outcomes focussed

**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