Senior Manager| Business Controls |amp| Monitoring

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Permanent Full-time
Sydney based
Fantastic opportunity to join the cash and transactional banking risk team
How will I help?

As a Senior Manager you will play a crucial role in line 1 risk squad for the Cash & Transactional Bank (C&TB) line of business’s (LOB) technology simplification & transformation program. Your focus will be on managing risks through appropriate controls and ensuring alignment with both LOB, divisional and group risk appetites.

You will provide first line-of-defence review and endorsement on project artefacts, ensuring they meet the Transformation Delivery Standard for all initiatives. You will also ensure that both delivery and delivered risks are managed within the C&TB risk appetite, while optimizing controls and establishing a robust risk in change capability to proactively address potential issues.

Furthermore, you will oversee risk in change outcomes, simplify the risk and control matrix process, optimise project resources, and ensure critical decisions and sign-off points are managed effectively. You will report on Risk in Change Governance to both C&TB and Divisional Governance Forums, providing insights and read-across of LOB initiatives for thematic consistency. Additionally, you will oversee the transition from project to business-as-usual, ensuring that risks and controls are properly embedded and handed over to the appropriate business units.

Other additional responsibilities include:

Work with and participate in divisional governance forums providing insight and key call outs
Actively lead project risk working groups and meetings, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement
Ensure the impact of the change is understood, and that ownership and acknowledgement of the delivered risks and new/modified controls are adhered to
Ensure sustainability of the change, and ongoing ownership accountabilities are agreed with the business owner
Manage the scope of the change and impacted processes, and report to the business for development requirements
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 within this role you will need prior risk management experience within financial services or consulting/professional services. You will have led prior risk in change projects and have knowledge of material risk policy component’s related to the relevant risk class. You must also have strong influencing and negotiating skills, strong attention to details, and presenting 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.

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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, ****** 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