Portfolio Governance Lead

1 week ago

Sydney, Australia Westpac Group Full time
  • Location: Melbourne or Sydney
  • Permanent role
  • Career growth and development

How will I help?

As the Portfolio Governance Lead, you will be responsible for measuring, tracking, and improving engineering, operational, financial, and compliance KPIs and metrics. This role involves strategic execution of non-delivery items with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Leadership Team (LT), performing portfolio reviews for four lines of business, and maintaining demand vs. supply and workforce data. 

The Portfolio Lead will also handle resourcing and vendor management, including interviewing and onboarding, and ensure all KPIs, and metrics are accurately reported through dashboards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Measure, track, and improve engineering, operational, financial, and compliance KPIs and metrics.
  • Execute strategic non-delivery items in collaboration with the ELT and LT.
  • Perform portfolio reviews for four lines of business.
  • Maintain demand vs. supply and workforce data.
  • Manage resourcing and vendor processes, including interviewing and onboarding.
  • Ensure accurate reporting of all KPIs and metrics through dashboards
  • Develop and document new processes.
  • Ensure project recovery compliance for all project resources.
  • Complete cost reset actions.
  • Own the SDLC process for data platforms, including tracking and maintenance.

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?

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Proactive, self-initiated, creative, and innovative in solving non-delivery problems.
  • Proven experience in portfolio management, preferably in fintech or financial services industry
  • Extensive communication skills with senior management and managing senior stakeholders.
  • Exposure to corporate finance, P&L management, and FP&A is preferred.
  • Experience with SDLC and agile methodologies is required.
  • Advanced skills in JIRA and MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Strong analytical skills and experience with KPI and metric tracking.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with executive and leadership teams.
  • Proficiency in using dashboard tools.
  • Strong organizational and documentation skills.

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.

How do I apply?

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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au

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