Leading Business Performance, Insights & Strategic Decision Making Across Everyday Banking, Business Products & Payments
Mō te Tūranga | About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced banking professional with strong commercial acumen and a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders. Leading a team of analytics specialists, you'll partner across Everyday Banking, Business Products and Payments to turn insights into action, support strategic decision-making, drive portfolio performance and navigate complex stakeholder environments. Success in this role will come from your ability to build trusted relationships, challenge constructively and translate information into clear business outcomes.
Ngā Mahi Hei Mahi Māu | What You'll Be Doing
Partner with senior leaders across Everyday Banking, Business Products and Payments to drive strategic decision-making and portfolio performance.
Lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring focus on the initiatives that deliver the greatest business impact.
Translate complex information into clear, actionable insights and recommendations that influence business outcomes.
Build trusted relationships and confidently navigate complex stakeholder environments, providing constructive challenge where required.
Identify opportunities to improve growth, customer outcomes and commercial performance while balancing risk considerations.
Drive alignment across multiple teams and priorities to deliver value for customers and the business.
Nā Tāu Rourou | What You'll Bring
Significant leadership experience within banking, with a strong understanding of banking products, commercial drivers and portfolio performance across multiple disciplines.
Proven success leading and developing high-performing teams.
Strong commercial acumen and an understanding of the drivers of business and portfolio performance.
Experience influencing senior leaders and managing complex stakeholder relationships.
The ability to turn information into meaningful insights and recommendations that support decision-making.
A sound understanding of analytics, performance measurement and the tools used to generate insights, with the ability to ask the right questions and translate outputs into business outcomes.
Excellent communication skills and the confidence to challenge, influence and drive outcomes.
Experience working across multiple functions, balancing competing priorities and delivering results in a complex environment.
Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac
Immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, and receive some of the best banking, and lifestyle benefits in the market along with:
4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
Career growth – we promote internal capability; we have programmes that recognise star performers
Generous parental leave – and top up government paid parental leave
School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
2 Volunteer days per year
Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation
At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.
What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!
Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!
Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.
The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.
Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater
Applications close:
15 September 2026Skills Required
- Significant leadership experience within banking
- Strong understanding of banking products, commercial drivers and portfolio performance across multiple disciplines
- Proven success leading and developing high-performing teams
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of business and portfolio performance drivers
- Experience influencing senior leaders and managing complex stakeholder relationships
- Ability to turn information into meaningful insights and recommendations supporting decision-making
- Sound understanding of analytics, performance measurement and insight-generation tools
- Excellent communication, influencing and constructive-challenge skills
- Experience working across multiple functions, balancing competing priorities and delivering results in a complex environment
Westpac Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Westpac and has not been reviewed or approved by Westpac.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Extensive paid and unpaid leave options span wellbeing leave, Culture/Lifestyle/Wellbeing days, purchased leave up to 12 weeks, career breaks, and various specialized leaves. This breadth supports work-life balance and accommodates a wide range of personal circumstances.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental provisions include 16 weeks full pay (or 32 at half pay) for primary carers, four weeks for support carers, and continued superannuation during unpaid parental leave. Additional supports cover domestic and family violence leave, Family Pathways leave, and grandparental leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counselling and coaching services, workplace mental health training, free nutrition advice, and health insurance access with pre‑existing conditions covered if joined promptly. Financial and lifestyle perks include banking discounts for employees and families and the myDiscounts program.
Westpac Insights
What We Do
Westpac is Australia’s oldest bank and company, one of four major banking organisations in Australia and one of the largest banks in New Zealand. We provide a broad range of banking and financial services in these markets, including consumer, business and institutional banking and wealth management services. We also have offices in key financial centres around the world including London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Westpac Group's portfolio of financial services brands and businesses is focused on our vision, which is "To be one of the world’s great service companies, helping our customers, communities and people to prosper and grow.”
