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Salary- Opportunity to join BT, the wealth management brand of Westpac Group
- Established career path and progression opportunities
- Adelaide Based
BT is the wealth management brand of Westpac Group, and has been helping Australians protect, manage and grow their wealth since 1969.
The role will have responsibility to manage and provide leadership of the audit, compliance and risk functions within the Platforms Tax and Accounting Services (Platforms TAS) team. This includes co-ordination and monitoring of audit and compliance activities across Platforms TAS, ensuring Platforms TAS maintains a strong control environment, undertaking first line testing of TAS key controls, maintaining TAS policies, researching and assisting with technical issues and projects as well as helping to coordinate training and development within TAS Platforms.
Accountabilities Include.
- Overall compliance, risk and audit management and monitoring for TAS Platforms team. This includes:
- Manage internal and external audit activities, including provision, collation and review of audit requests
- Management of all incident activities, including co-ordination of meetings, preparation of documentation and updating of incident management systems
- Co-ordinating and undertaking annual control self-assessments and monthly reviews of all key controls
- Co-ordinating and reviewing monthly compliance sign offs
- Co-ordinating and updating of work instructions and policy documents
- Co-ordinating TAS Platforms technical training programme to ensure it meets staff development needs, including preparation and presentation of compliance training
- Providing technical assistance to the TAS Platforms team on technical matters (tax, accounting and other technical) impacting the team
- Identification and implementation of process improvements to ensure the team maintain a strong control environment
- Engage with various Project teams in relation to all project changes that impact the TAS Platforms team, including implementing applicable project changes into the team and ensuring appropriate reviews and sign offs are conducted
- Implement and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders across Tax and Accounting Services, Service and Operations, Product, Risk and Project teams as required
- Assist and act as a back-up to other TAS Platforms managers where required (e.g. peak periods and extended leave periods)
In this role you will interact with various internal stakeholders and through these interactions you will further expand your professional network as well as continue to refine your business and commercial acumen.
On a personal note, 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?
To be successful you will have the following:
Essential
- Accounting Degree, CA / CPA Qualification
- Audit or risk and compliance experience - 5+ years
- Risk management skills - lines of defence, Control Self-Assessment and incident management
- Relevant industry experience, preferably in an audit or business services environment, or within the financial services industry
- Demonstrated experience in enhancing the risk and compliance culture in an organisation
- Strong written communication skills
- Accounting and tax knowledge
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Financial services knowledge (highly desirable)
- Experience in identifying and implementing continuous process improvement
- Experience in driving change management
- Ethical decision making and judgement.
- Leads risk management.
- Delivering outcomes. Good time management, ability to work independently and willingness to work additional hours as required, particularly during month and year end periods.
- Managing stakeholders
- Strong analytical, judgement and decision-making skills
- Written and verbal communication skills - including the ability to interact professionally at a senior level within the business
For the past 200 years, we've been backing people, businesses, communities, and ideas. As Australia's first bank, we've adapted and evolved, inspired by our customers and a genuine desire to create better futures.
Together, we're creating better futures for all our people, customers, communities, and shareholders. This has been our enduring Purpose.
- We inspire our people and together we are creating better futures. It's our passion for embracing diversity and creating opportunities that enables them to dream big and fulfil their potential.
- We empower our customers. It's our strength, agility and heart that gives them the confidence to navigate change and forge new paths. Empowered, our customers are creating better futures.
- We make change happen in the community. It's our shared vision of a safer, greener and more inclusive world that sees us back new ideas, innovations and individuals who are creating better futures.
- We deliver for our shareholders by creating better futures together. It's our ability to generate value for this generation and the next, which makes our shareholders proud to invest in us.
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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
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
