Manager, Credit Assurance

Permanent fulltime opportunity
- Sydney based position Exciting opportunity to join our Credit Risk Assurance team

**How will I help?**

We're looking for a Manager of Credit Assurance to join our team. In this role, you'll play a crucial part in monitoring and reviewing the credit risk controls for lending activities across our Consumer Mortgages, Consumer Finance, and SME businesses. Your expertise will be essential in assessing credit processes and activities, completing validation activities, and ensuring the sustainable resolution of risk issues identified by our Credit Assurance team.

You'll be responsible for undertaking targeted reviews to address any issues or concerns, providing constructive feedback, and suggesting effective solutions that will enable us to proactively manage remediation or oversight. As a key player in our risk management strategy, you'll assess the management of credit risk within the business, identify control weaknesses, and provide guidance to our local credit, distribution, and operations teams on acceptable practices.

In terms of coaching and development, you'll contribute to our learning environment by participating in necessary professional development to enhance our risk management capability. You'll share your learnings and best practices across business sites and teams, coach underwriters, bankers, and delegated authority holders to improve their credit risk management capabilities, and make recommendations for national policy and process changes based on review activity findings.

**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 grown, 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'll need to have at least 5 years of relevant consumer and small business banking/credit experience, demonstrated risk management experience within a large corporate, and a solid understanding of risk management & risk optimisation practices. Knowledge of industry issues, trends, practices, and regulatory/statutory legislative requirements related to consumer and small business banking is essential. Experience in control testing, strong communication skills, influencing & persuasiveness, problem-solving abilities, and the ability to manage change and strive for continuous improvement are also key requirements.

**What is it like to work there?**

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

**How do I apply?**

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