Product Owner

**Manager - Product Owner Consumer Financial Crime
- **Join Westpac's Financial Crime Team in Consumer Banking COO**:

- **Established career path and progression opportunities**:

- **Sydney based permanent role**

**How will I help?**

The Consumer Financial Crime team supports the consumer business in managing their financial crime risk while enabling change to uplift the division's control environment and maintain compliance with financial crime obligations. They provide specialist knowledge to the business in identifying and managing financial crime risk. This role works within the first-line financial crime advisory team in the Consumer Banking Division and is a bridge between FC Advisory and various transformation teams, managing the Financial Crime value delivered by the team and ensuring that it aligns with the overall Consumer FC roadmap. As a Product Owner, this role is accountable for getting the teams to develop the right thing, while the teams are accountable for developing it the right way.

It is an expectation of this role to support a strong risk culture that embodies our ethics and integrity, balancing regulatory obligation and customer experience.

**You will also**:

- Support Executive Manager/ Senior Manager to facilitate requirements, endorsement and SME support to the transformation teams
- Work closely with the various transformation teams to provide financial crime SME advice
- Close engagement with Consumer FC project teams participating in their day-to-day cadence e.g. stand ups, PI planning, retros & reviews, etc
- Escalate project risks, requirement/ technology gaps as required, helping to navigate to an effective outcome within the division's financial crime risk appetite
- Responsible for supporting prioritization and review of Consumer FC backlog
- Working closely with all advisory team members to translate BAU gaps/ issues into program of work
- Reviewing any policy changes to identify impacts to the ongoing and pipeline projects

**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?**

**Experience**
- Extensive experience in the financial services industry
- Demonstrated experience working in a large and complex organisation and working with senior stakeholders and understanding their viewpoints
- Experience in financial crime (AML/ CTF/ KYC) / FATCA/ CRS
- Experience working as a Product Owner and in transformation project environment would be preferred
- Managing multiple and competing stakeholder interests
- Analysis and Problem Solving
- Stakeholder management

**Education**
- Business and/or technology tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience (required)
- Product Owner (advantage)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
- Scaled Agile (advantage)
- SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner (SPMPO)

**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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