Director, Financial Institutions & Government
Westpac Group · Sydney
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Director, Financial Institutions & Government
What’s the role?
As Director, Financial Institutions & Government, you’ll build and grow relationships with banks, non-bank financial institutions, payment service providers and trusts. You’ll develop strong connections across treasury, funding, payments and risk teams, understanding your clients’ priorities and identifying opportunities to support their evolving needs.
Working across Westpac Institutional Bank, you’ll bring together specialists to develop solutions spanning transaction banking, payments, deposits, liquidity, securitisation, debt capital markets, private markets and risk management. You’ll also stay connected to emerging opportunities across digital assets and new payment infrastructure.
You’ll take ownership of a portfolio of strategic clients, originate new opportunities and use your commercial judgement to deliver solutions while maintaining a disciplined approach to credit and non-financial risk.
This is a permanent, Sydney-based role, with a minimum of three days per week in the office.
What do I need?
You’ll bring strong financial institutions experience, commercial judgement and relationship-building capability, with the confidence to connect clients to solutions across Westpac.
- Experience building and managing relationships across banks, non-bank financial institutions or related financial services businesses.
- Strong knowledge of treasury, funding, transaction banking, payments and liquidity management.
- Experience originating or supporting debt solutions across securitisation, debt capital markets, and public or private markets.
- An understanding of foreign exchange, interest rates and derivatives, alongside awareness of emerging payment and digital asset trends.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across product, credit and delivery teams while effectively managing credit and non-financial risk.
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 you 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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