Create your best future and join Westpac as a PMO Lead
What do I need?
We're seeking a highly capable PMO Lead to support a major transformation initiative within the Westpac Group. This role provides strategic oversight and governance across the program, ensuring delivery aligns with investment plans, schedules, and the Group’s strategic intent. You’ll work closely with the Program Director to manage reporting, governance, risk, and stakeholder engagement—driving operational excellence and transparency across all workstreams.
As a key member of the Program Enablement & PMO team , you’ll help drive the successful delivery of the UNITE program by embedding strong governance, structured support, and consistent standards. The team plays a pivotal role in aligning delivery to strategic priorities—enabling faster decisions, early risk identification, and seamless collaboration across business, technology, and delivery streams.
This role will play a crucial part of the UNITE team. UNITE is our business-led, tech-enabled transformation, and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering 'one best way' to make our processes, systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.
Essential Skills:
Candidates must have proven experience working within a Program Management Office (PMO) environment , demonstrating the following capabilities within financial services/Banking:
- Program Oversight & Strategic Alignment: Ability to track delivery against baselined schedules and benefits, ensuring alignment with strategic investment plans
- Governance & Compliance Expertise: Deep understanding of Transformation Portfolio Standards (TPS) and Transformation Delivery Standards (TDS), with experience embedding governance processes
- Integrated Scheduling & Dependency Management: Skilled in managing complex program schedules, interdependencies, and milestone tracking
- Reporting & Financial Oversight: Proven ability to manage high-quality program reporting, including financial forecasting and executive-level status updates
- Risk & Issue Management: Strong capability in identifying, escalating, and resolving risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across multiple streams
- Change Control & Documentation: Experience implementing change control procedures, document management systems, and maintaining program registers
- Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups
- Program Planning & Rhythm: Ability to develop and maintain a comprehensive Program Management Plan, including operating rhythm, governance forums, and delivery standards
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- 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.
Create your future today !!!
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