Are you an experienced Senior IT Risk and Compliance professional looking to return to the Tech industry after a career break?
Westpac understands that re-entering the workforce can be challenging, especially in the fast-paced world of technology.
That's why we're offering the Empower Up Tech Returnship program to help you get your career back on track. Whether you've taken time off for parenting, travel, caregiving, or personal health, our program is designed to support your transition back into the tech field.
What We Offer:
- 24-week structured program: Gain hands-on experience in your tech role with dedicated support.
- Collaborative learning environment: Work alongside a cohort of peers with similar life experiences, enhancing your support network and boosting your confidence.
- Tailored training for leaders: Our people leaders are trained to understand your needs, especially when it comes to flexibility and work-life balance.
Join us at Westpac and take the next step in your tech career with the Empower Up Tech Returnship. Let's EmPOWERUP together!
How will I help?
Specialised Hosting Services is a team dedicated to providing compute hosting platforms catering for unique application workloads. These platforms includes AIX, AS400, HPe Non-Stop and Solaris.
This role will be responsible for the risk and compliance management obligations across Specialised Hosting Services (Risk Champion). Working closely with the team, suppliers, the broader risk community and other divisions, the role will focus on maturing risk culture and governance, progression of issues and incidents, ensure risk and compliance obligations are actioned and facilitate audit requirements.
Additionally, we are considering candidates from all states for this position.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Assessment of IT risks, including cyber security, operational, infrastructure, software and compliance.
- Documenting and managing issues, exceptions and incidents.
- Evaluating and proposing rating justifications.
- Liaising with various teams across Westpac to facilitate a credible remediation pathway and track progress.
- Collecting and verifying artefacts for closure.
- Maintain knowledge of controls, standards and policies.
- Reporting and Communicating status.
- Working with internal and external auditors.
- Supporting the Specialised Hosting Services team for compliance with controls, policies and standards.
- Continual maturity and improvements to the risk management function within the team.
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?
- Minimum 3 years of experience in information technology in a large organisation.
- Understanding of risk management frameworks, controls and standards.
- Ability to collaborate across departments and work with various stakeholders.
- Be highly organised, resilient and adaptable.
- An ownership mindset, taking accountability and driving results.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail and the ability to work autonomously.
- Customer oriented focus.
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.
Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us. #LI-Hybrid.
How do I apply?
Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.
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
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