Address- Permanent, full time
- Sydney location
- Supportive team environment
How will I help?
The Group Investigations (GI) team provides investigative and intelligence services to business units across the Westpac Group. This includes the investigation of internal (staff misconduct) and serious misconduct incidents inclusive of Whistle-blower investigations as well as the identification of underlying risk issues relating to those investigations across the Group.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Conduct investigations into sensitive/high risk misconduct by employees across the Westpac Group, including concerns arising from Whistle-blower disclosures.
- Conduct investigations comprehensively, effectively and in accordance with the principles of procedural fairness.
- Collect data needed to investigate complex misconduct. This includes all evidence (physical, verbal or circumstantial) to be collected, indexed and stored in a manner to ensure continuity test is passed when assessed for Court acceptance.
- Manages work activities to balance short- and long-term priorities.
- Contribute actively to strategic planning processes and help to ensure a shared understanding of strategic direction and corporate priorities.
- Consult with stakeholders across the Group and foster a work environment where people work collaboratively towards a common service goal.
- Liaise with key conduct stakeholders in 1st and 2nd Lod Compliance/Risk teams.
- Provide SME (Subject Matter Expert) advice on conduct risk to internal customers i.e. Mortgage Operation Investigation Unit, Sales & Quality conduct teams.
- Collaborate with Legal to initiate civil / criminal proceedings on behalf of the Group in instances where financial loss has been sustained because of misconduct.
What’s in it for me?
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 grow, 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 of 5 years’ experience in an Investigative field.
- Demonstrated investigative experience, interview skills and techniques gained in either Law Enforcement, Regulatory investigations role, Human Resources, Legal and/or the relevant Financial Services Industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing investigations ie workplace investigations (Serious misconduct); financial crime (AML/ABC/FCT).
- Demonstrated experience gathering evidence and preparing reports for compliance and risk assessment and/or preparing briefs of evidence, preparing witness statements, statutory declarations and affidavits
- Demonstrated analytical skill sets with some exposure to SAS; SQL; Python or PowerBI.
- Strong knowledge of Evidence Act, Whistleblowing legislation, Anti- Discrimination legislation.
- Sound knowledge of Banking Procedures, Westpac Group’s Code of Conduct, Operational Risk and Compliance Frameworks.
What is it like to work there?
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.
How do I apply?
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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
