Head of Property Risk, Business Division
About this role
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Head of Property Risk
As Head of Property Risk, you’ll lead a specialist team that’s genuinely different in the Australian banking landscape. This team sits in the first line and is embedded directly in deal teams, working alongside relationship managers and credit partners from the outset, not reviewing transactions after the fact.
You’ll lead and develop a team of property and construction risk specialists supporting Westpac’s Business & Wealth Division, while remaining hands-on in complex transactions. You’ll be involved early in opportunities, attending customer meetings, visiting sites, reviewing valuations and shaping credit submissions with practical, real world property insight.
Beyond day-to-day deal activity, you’ll partner with the National Head of Property Risk on strategic and Groupwide initiatives, contributing to governance, industry engagement and market thought leadership.
This is a permanent, full‑time role ideally based in Sydney, supporting a team Australia wide.
This is a leadership role for someone who wants to shape the future. You’ll be a change agent with the capability and ambition to step into broader leadership over time.
You’ll bring:
- Deep experience in property, valuation or real estate risk, with exposure to live transactions.
- Strong people leadership capability, improving how teams operate and add value and provide coaching for future leaders.
- The credibility and judgement to operate as a senior voice at the deal table, influencing outcomes early.
- Strategic thinking, with the ability to balance hands-on deal involvement with longer term priorities.
- Aspiration and readiness to grow into a broader enterprise leadership role as part of long-term succession planning.
- 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.
Company at a glance
From rescue helicopters to signing the Equator Principles, from paying super during parental leave to adding 'Touch ID' biometric technology to our banking apps and being first on the scene with a helping hand in times of crisis... we have a proud history of stepping up to be first for our customers, communities and people. As Australia’s first bank and Australia’s first company we put service at the heart of everything we do and our people are our priority.
We've grown up as a company and expanded both in Australia and throughout Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Now we are made up of your favourite financial institution names including Westpac, BankSA, St.George Bank, BT Financial Group, RAMs and Bank of Melbourne, a change of job doesn’t mean a change of employer at Westpac Group.
We've made a commitment to put our customers first in everything we do. This means creating fundamentally superior customer experiences for each customer, every time. We promise that when you meet with someone from Westpac Group, you'll be touched by their genuine dedication to helping our customers prosper and grow.
Westpac Group acknowledges the traditional owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their Elders, past and present.
Top Benefits
- Banking product discounts
- Generous employee-only mortgage rates
- Flexible work arrangements
- Culture leave
- Lifestyle leave
- Wellbeing leave
- Tailored learning and development opportunities
- Volunteering initiatives
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