- Exciting opportunity to join Westpac Private Wealth while our business continues to grow.
- Sydney CBD based with working flexibility (will consider candidates in Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth).
- Lead a high performing team within the most awarded Private Bank in Australia
We are Australia’s most awarded Private Bank and the trusted financial partner of a select group of high-net-worth individuals. Our clients have access to a comprehensive offering, built around their goals, and backed by the financial resources of one of the World’s leading Financial Institutions. We truly understand the importance of having a long-term view. Our purpose is to help our clients and their families to create enduring financial advantage for generations.
How will I help?
As Director – Private Lending, you will be responsible for driving a vision that aligns to our Private Wealth proposition and ensuring a robust Credit risk management framework is embedded through our business and incorporated into our credit and lending processes.
This role is part of the Private Banking Services Leadership team and plays an integral role engaging across the value chain both internally and externally.
The Key Objectives of this role include:
- Driving transformational change to increase FTE productivity and client experience and embed Group strategic, compliance and risk management initiatives.
- Continue to build on a high performance, values driven culture that continues to challenge the status quo.
- Optimise the P&L impact of credit/portfolio risk and to improve the quality of the loan book by proactively and responsibly managing, in conjunction with State Heads, all ongoing lending exposures to negate lending losses.
- Provide an efficient and effective lending process, and continually seek to improve this process, thereby making it easy for our bankers to lend and our customers to borrow.
- Broaden the risk appetite to more appropriately reflect the unique credit requirements of HNW customers.
- Work with Banking and Financial Markets business partners to develop lending products that fulfil the wealth needs of HNWs and support the Private Bank in achieving its holistic wealth agenda.
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?
We are looking for an experienced leader with a proven ability to drive business performance through project management, complex lending deals and portfolio management.
You will utilise your highly developed people management, coaching and communication skills to promote strong operational excellence and drive continued growth and strategic change within an already high performing team of Lending Analysts.
As an expert in your field, you will possess well-honed financial analysis skills and understanding of regulatory frameworks and credit policies, along with experience in the HNW market.
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.
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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.
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