Associate Director, Project Finance

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Group Full time $120,000 - $250,000 per year

Create your best future and join Westpac as an Associate Director, Project Finance

What's the role?

This is a full-time opportunity based in either Sydney or Melbourne, where you'll join an industry-leading Project Finance team specialising in the financing of renewable energy, infrastructure, and PPP projects across Australia.

The Project Finance team provides non-recourse debt financing solutions to Westpac Institutional Bank's customer base, with a focus on sectors including Infrastructure, Power, and Natural Resources. In this role, you'll work on high-profile Australian infrastructure projects that support the growth of Australia's renewable energy transition (in line with Westpac's recent Net Zero Banking Alliance commitment).

Reporting to a Director, you'll play a key role in originating and executing Project Finance transactions. This includes evaluating the credit quality of complex debt deals across Power & Renewables, Infrastructure & PPP, and Natural Resources, helping deliver impactful financing solutions that support sustainable growth.

What do I need?

To succeed in this role, you'll bring a strong mix of technical capability, commercial insight, and collaborative energy. If you're ready to own it and make an impact, here's what will help you succeed:

  • Robust experience in credit writing, structuring, negotiating and financial modelling, whilst understanding key business drivers.
  • Proven success of working collaboratively within a team environment, supporting pitches and research projects, in partnership with relationship, syndications, agency and risk teams.
  • A passion for driving client advocacy and growth in the team's portfolio, underpinned by your ability to share deep thought leadership to the market of topical issues (e.g. providing unique insights into market and industry conditions impacting WIB and its customers, in partnership with the Consumer Insights and Analytics team).
  • A shared and passionate vision for supporting the pipeline of infrastructure projects to propel our market leading position
    A respected brand, known for your professionalism, advisory skills and proven business acumen, coupled with a commercial mindset.

Why join us?

We're obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we're looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we're committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we're already doing that:

  • Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates
  • Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
    Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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We're all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website .

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