Job Description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Director - Accounting Policy

• Permanent Full-time opportunity
• Sydney based
• Hybrid working model

What’s the role?

As a Director, you will play a key role within the Group Finance function, leveraging your deep understanding of accounting standards and broader financial reporting requirements within the financial services industry. You will lead and develop a high-performing team while providing accounting advisory across complex transactional activities, monitoring evolving standards and industry best practice, and delivering insights to enhance financial reporting. Acting as a key point of contact for external auditors, you will manage relationships with senior stakeholders including the Group CFO, Deputy CFO, divisional finance teams, Legal and Risk, alongside supporting ad hoc initiatives across the wider Group Financial Control team.

What do I need?

• Extensive experience across banking or financial services, with exposure to financial assurance and technical accounting or within a Big 4 accounting firm
• Experience as a people leader leading and developing high performing teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement, management, collaboration, advisory and partnering experience with senior leaders
• Advanced technical accounting expertise combined with strong commercial acumen to deliver insights, apply accounting policy and statutory reporting frameworks, and translate complex information into clear, actionable messages.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, with advanced Excel capability required to support analysis, reporting and decision-making.
• Chartered or CPA qualified

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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