Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring – Chief Data and Analytics Office

Westpac Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking an Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring to lead risk professionals supporting the Chief Data and Analytics Office. You will strengthen risk frameworks, policies and governance while partnering with senior stakeholders to identify and remediate risks and incidents.

You will guide root-cause analysis, provide risk insights for committees, and support safe delivery of transformation across CDAO and the Shared Data and AI Delivery Unit.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership of risk professionals and teams.
• Deep knowledge of risk management, controls and monitoring across portfolios.
• Experience handling data privacy and technology risk challenges in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of risk professionals supporting the Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) and Shared Data and AI Delivery Unit.
• Embed risk frameworks, policies, controls, reporting and governance across the business.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across lines of business to identify emerging risks, incidents and remediation actions.
• Provide insights and reporting for risk committees and support governance of transformations and change within CDAO and SD&AI Delivery Unit.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Data and privacy risk

Job description

Job Description

Create your best future and join Westpac as an Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring – Chief Data and Analytics Office

What’s the role?

As Executive Manager, Business Controls and Monitoring, you’ll lead a team of risk professionals supporting the Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) and Shared Data and AI Delivery Unit. You’ll play a key leadership role in helping the business understand and manage its risk and control environment, ensuring risk frameworks, policies, controls, reporting and governance are effectively embedded.

You’ll partner closely with senior stakeholders across Line 1 and Line 2, providing trusted expertise across emerging risks, incidents, issues and controls. You’ll identify opportunities to strengthen risk practices, support the assessment and remediation of issues and incidents, and guide root cause analysis to develop practical solutions that work for the business.

You’ll also provide insights and reporting for risk committees and support the governance and safe delivery of transformation and change across CDAO and the Shared Data and AI Delivery Unit. As a senior leader, you’ll coach and support the business to strengthen risk awareness, encourage ownership and continue building a strong risk and controls culture.

This is a permanent, Sydney based role with two to three days in the office to connect with the wider team.

What do I need?

You’ll bring strong risk and controls leadership, sound judgement and the ability to influence at a senior level. You’ll be comfortable navigating complexity, building trusted relationships and turning risk challenges into practical solutions.

• Strong leadership capability, with the ability to lead and coach risk professionals while building risk capability across the broader business.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, controls and monitoring, including identifying, assessing and supporting the remediation of risks, issues and incidents.
• Experience managing data, privacy and technology risk challenges, with the judgement to navigate complex issues and changing environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building and influencing skills, with the confidence to partner effectively with senior stakeholders across a complex organisation.
• Strong problem-solving and evaluative judgement, with the ability to translate complex information into practical solutions, clear insights and meaningful risk reporting.

Why join us?

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 you grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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 out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.