Head of Compliance, Private Wealth, SME, Small Business & Business Transaction Banking

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Head of Compliance, Private Wealth, SME, Small Business & Business Transaction Banking (Business & Wealth Division).

How will I help?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of compliance across a significant portion of Westpac’s customer businesses.

As Head of Compliance for Westpac’s Private Wealth, SME, Small Business & Business Transaction Banking lines of business, you'll provide strategic leadership across a diverse portfolio, partnering with senior executives to help deliver safe, sustainable, and customer-focused outcomes. You'll be a trusted adviser, bringing deep regulatory expertise, commercial judgement, and the confidence to provide constructive challenge where it matters most.

Leading a team of compliance professionals, you'll influence key business decisions, guide complex regulatory and risk matters, and help ensure Westpac continues to meet the expectations of customers, regulators, and the communities we serve. You'll work at the intersection of strategy, governance, risk, and transformation. Your role will see you supporting new initiatives, driving effective implementation of regulatory change, and strengthening compliance capability across the organisation.

This is a highly visible leadership role where your ability to build trusted relationships, navigate complexity, and inspire high-performing teams will be critical. You'll engage with senior leaders across the Bank, contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives, and play a key role in fostering a culture where accountability, integrity, and customer outcomes are front and centre.

If you're energised by solving complex challenges, influencing at the highest levels, and creating meaningful impact across a dynamic and evolving business, you'll thrive in this role.

What’s in it for me?

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create 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 your career, 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?

• Significant leadership experience in Compliance, within Private Wealth, Business Banking, Financial Services, or a regulatory environment.
• Deep knowledge of the Australian regulatory landscape, including the Corporations Act, APRA standards, and obligations relevant to retail and wholesale banking customers.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives, provide credible strategic advice, and lead through complexity, ambiguity, and organisational change.
• A track record of building and leading high-performing teams, developing capability, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Strong commercial judgement, executive presence, and the ability to balance risk, customer outcomes, and business objectives to deliver sustainable results.

What’s it like to work there?

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

How do I apply?

Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.

At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone - our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@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 email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.