Cpo, Downstream Finance & Risk

Westpac; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mortgage discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development opportunities

Community volunteering

Job summary

Westpac is seeking a Chief Product Owner – Downstream Finance & Risk to lead migration outcomes and align cross‑functional teams across Finance, Risk, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Data, Technology and business units. You’ll shape roadmaps, set priorities, and drive data quality, testing, and cutover to ensure regulatory compliance and robust risk management.

This senior role emphasizes stakeholder alignment, governance, and delivering customer‑focused migration strategies in a dynamic banking

Qualifications

• Broad expertise across banking Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting and Data domains.
• Minimum 6 years' experience in risk, capital, and regulatory environments.
• Experience leading complex migrations and translating strategy into priorities.
• Strong knowledge of banking products, customer structures and risk frameworks.
• Expertise in data governance, quality, reconciliation, and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Lead downstream migration outcomes for Finance & Risk within UNITE Program.
• Turn complex migration impacts into a clear roadmap and priorities.
• Set acceptance criteria, oversee data quality, and guide testing and cutover.
• Ensure business readiness, regulatory compliance, and effective risk management.

Skills

Finance domain knowledge

Risk management

Data governance

Stakeholder alignment

Migration leadership

Job description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Chief Product Owner – Downstream Finance & Risk.

What’s the role?

You’ll lead the downstream Finance and Risk outcomes for customer and product migration within the UNITE Program. Bringing together stakeholders from across Finance, Risk, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Data, Technology and the broader business, you’ll turn complex migration impacts into a clear roadmap, practical priorities and confident decisions.

You’ll help protect the integrity of downstream data, systems, reporting and controls from planning through to migration and stabilisation. From setting acceptance criteria and overseeing data quality to guiding testing, cutover and business readiness, you’ll play a central role in delivering migration outcomes that support customers, regulatory compliance, financial integrity and effective risk management.

This is a full time role preferably based in Sydney, but open on location.

What do I need?

• Broad expertise across banking Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting and Data domains
• Minimum 6 years' experience in risk, capital, and regulatory environments
• Experience leading complex customer or product migrations and translating strategy into clear delivery priorities
• Strong knowledge of banking products, customer structures, regulatory obligations and risk management frameworks
• Expertise in data governance, data quality, reconciliation, reporting and traceability across source and target systems
• The ability to align senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities and lead multidisciplinary teams through significant change

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives

Create your future today

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page, under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.