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Risk Manager - Governance & Regulatory Engagement, BC&M COO

Job Description

• Permanent role
• Sydney based - hybrid working
• Excellent opportunity to join Westpac's Business Controls and Monitoring team

How will I help?

The Manager - Governance and Regulatory Engagement BCM, will be responsible for assisting with the consistent, efficient and best practice governance, and informed regulatory engagement to the BCM COO and Consumer Division. Your role will work across the Governance and Regulatory Engagement domains to support the successful operation of the Consumer Division Risk Committee and support inflight Regulatory matters. You will be supporting the division to implement best practice governance practices, paper submission, risk paper assessments and applying optimised governance practices for storage and retrieval of risk documents and committee papers. You will develop and monitor detailed timelines and action plans for submission of key risk and regulatory artefacts to Chief Operating Office, and Chief Executive Office, Consumer Division, and will be responsible tracking and monitoring of consistent styling of risk committee papers. You will liaise with the Chief Executive Office, Consumer Bank for Risk committee and regulatory response matters and will support the coordinate Community of Practice for CD governance across all Business Units and Lines of Business.

In addition to this you will:

• Support Governance and Secretariat of CD Risk Committee and COO BCM Risk Committee
• Act as a co-ordination point to Regulatory responses and engagements for Consumer division matters including status tracking and reporting
• Assist with the development of risk papers for Group Risk Committees and Board
• Support the team to provide advisory services across Governance and Regulatory engagement matters
• Provide excellent stakeholder management (Consumer Division, Lines of business BCM and Business Unit BCM, 2LOD, Risk and Regulatory Change, COO)
• Promote a strong culture of control awareness and risk mitigation.

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 in this role you will have 3+ years of operational risk, compliance, assurance or legal experience. You will have demonstrated experience in Governance activities (e.g. Regulatory Reporting and/or Risk Committee paper writing) and be confident with stakeholder management and outcome tracking. You will be proactive, organised and outcomes focussed, with the ability to think strategically (be innovative and simplify), with the ability to achieve objectives in a changing environment. In addition to this you will:

• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Have excellent time management skills, with the ability to capture, prioritise and manage competing deadlines.
• Have a track record of risk and compliance advisory services in a complex regulatory environment
• Be a team player, as well as being able to work autonomously.
• Have high energy and a drive to achieve outcomes.

What is 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

Job ID 300002596689944