Program Manager

• 18 months contract with a view to permanency
• Sydney location, however open to Melbourne, Brisbane & Adelaide
• Supportive team environment

Online Share Trading is designed for self-directed investors seeking access to trade securities across a wide range of domestic and international markets. The Online Share Trading business is undertaking a period of transformation to better meet the needs of more Westpac customers.

This is a critical role to lead and manage a key transformation project to ensure the business achieves its strategic goals, business benefits and outcomes. There is also a requirement to oversee other Online Share Trading projects in a coordinated manner drawing on existing business resourcing and expertise.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the project team effectively works with numerous stakeholders (including business SMEs, technology teams, IT architects) to clearly capture, document, and validate requirements with business sign off
• Execute projects to deliver solutions/capabilities that meet business requirements and realise benefits within agreed scope, time, cost and quality
• Monitor and report to the Program Director and Project Sponsor on status of financials, risks, issues and progress towards milestones and deliverables
• Translate business needs into a clear and measurable program of work which is aligned to the broader strategy
• Comply with the group governance processes, to ensure stakeholders have a clear understanding of their role in delivery and that the required decision making and escalation processes are in place to help achieve the required outcome
• People Management to ensure the required capability is available to deliver project outcomes.
• Program management of Online Share Trading projects, including risk and issue management, forecasting, system reporting inputs and SteerCo reporting
• Supporting updates to the Online Share Trading value chain (processes and risk profile) and digital
• Engage, inform, influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders to help drive strong execution and delivery

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is of creating 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 grown, 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 exceptional and talented Senior Project Manager with a proven track record in successfully leading and managing medium/large projects, ideally familiar with wealth management, platforms or investments, together with:

• 5 + years experience within projects and/or delivery of technology solutions (minimum 3 years at Project Manager level)
• 3+ years working in a large and complex organisation
• 3+ years experience in the financial services industry
• Outstanding planning and organisational skills
• Strong understanding of systems integrations
• Strong project management, stakeholder and communication skills
• Experience in change management.
• Integrity and good judgement to drive operational efficiency and sound risk management
• Data experience
• Advanced Knowledge of Agile and traditional project delivery tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
• Demonstrated success in managing and achieving results from medium complexity projects, embedded project deliverables and working closely with business stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

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 are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email ***************@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 call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email ***************@westpac.com.au