Manager, Group Expense Performance & Analytics

Job description

What's the role? You'll play a central role in how Westpac understands and manages its Group cost base. Sitting within Group Finance, you'll deliver clear, driver-based insights on expense performance across forecasts, targets and peer benchmarks, helping shape Executive and Board decision-making. Partnering closely with divisional, functional and line-of-business finance teams, you'll turn complex expense data into concise, actionable insight. You'll explain cost movements, challenge assumptions, support planning and target setting, and provide forward-looking scenario analysis to improve decision-making. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad stakeholder exposure across Group Finance. You'll also simplify and automate reporting processes, strengthen controls across data and models, and create capacity for deeper analytics and higher-value insight. This is a 12 month opportunity, based in Sydney with flexible hybrid working. What will I be doing?: - Provide driver-based analysis of Group expense performance across the cost base, cost growth and key expense categories, against forecasts, targets and peer benchmarks. - Deliver clear variance analysis, commentar...