Executive Director, Structured Finance

Job Description

Role Overview Lead and develop the market-leading Structured Finance team across Australia. Build innovative financial structures such as securitisation, warehousing facilities, asset-backed bonds & bespoke debt structures. Utilise the strength of your proven leadership skills, and breadth of client and governance expertise. Leader of leaders opportunity, Sydney based. How will I help? Reporting to the MD, Head of Debt Products, you will be an integral part of the leadership team delivering Debt Products to our core institutional customers. You will be responsible for managing, building and leading the provision of Structured Finance products and services to the Westpac Institutional Bank client base. This senior leadership role is a distinctive opportunity to head up the market leading team for innovative financial structures such as warehousing facilities, asset-backed bonds & bespoke debt structures. You will hold a deep understanding of the external Structured Finance market. You will adapt the Structured Finance strategy to competitor positioning and behaviour, and lead a large team of seasoned professionals to generate debt structuring ideas to lead and engage with customers and drive new business growth. Your remit will include balance sheet, capital and liquidity optimisation and meeting regulatory and compliance requirements, as well as ensuring sound risk assessment for credit decisioning. Your leadership role will require you to engage, enable and motivate a high-performance team of seven direct reports and up to 20 in your business. Your proven ability to build and leverage relationships with other Debt Product teams, Industry Coverage, Chief Operating Office, Risk, Service, and Operations teams to meet the team’s business objectives will be essential. What’s in it for me? You will be part of a market-leading team within the Westpac Institutional Bank. High energy, ambitious, diverse and dynamic! With the customer at the centre, this business is high profile and on a defined growth trajectory with a drive for automation and simplification. Additionally, you will play a significant part in the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together, and we look forward to working with you and supporting you with market competitive policies regarding family care and flexibility. For instant impact, you will need: A respected brand, well known for coaching and enabling your team’s successes, coupled with peer admiration for role modelling customer obsession. Proven structured deal origination and execution history across a range of industries. Substantial experience in executing sophisticated financing structures. Proven experience supporting customers through changing external markets. Established domestic and international networks (i.e. Banks, Advisors & customers). A thorough working knowledge of tax, accounting, and regulatory issues related to Structured Finance APS120. Knowledge and demonstrated implementation of compliance and risk management. Tertiary qualification in Finance or related discipline. What’s it like to work within the team? 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, the Westpac family will give 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 help you achieve what's important both at work and at home. 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? 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. 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 . 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 . #J-18808-Ljbffr