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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Bankwest is a West Australian based full-service bank, which is pivoting towards digital, home loans and the broker channel. Bankwest has 1.2 million customers, a home loan book of > $80bn, and has over 3000 staff. My role as Head of Credit Risk was responsible for oversight and challenge of credit strategy proposals, ensuring mortgage book growth from.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

In May 2018, the regulator APRA released its Inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank's (CBA's) governance, culture and accountability, which followed the well-publicized AUSTRAC investigation into AML CTF failings at the CBA. In response CBA launched its Remediation Action Plan (RAP), which was ultimately closed in September 2021, and led to release of a $500m.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

In late 2017, Bankwest embarked upon its agile transformation, creating a new division 'Customer Experience' (CX) bringing together cross functional teams in a 'Spotify like' operating model. Bankwest implemented its digital agile transformation, 5 years ahead of the rest of the CBA Group. In a newly created role, I led a small team of 4 to partner the CX.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

I led a large multidisciplinary team of 15 colleagues, delivering a wide range of services including policy development, controls assurance, thematic reviews, and risk committee reporting. In this role, I focused on optimizing risk frameworks, leveraging productivity tools and methods. I centralized a controls assurance model to lift quality and.

Perth, Australia

From 31 December 2013, APRA revoked the AIRB (Advanced Accreditation) for non-retail credit risk, due to failure to meet post-accreditation requirements related to data quality issues and a weak data quality related control environment. Soon thereafter, I joined Risk Management in a Line 2 Business Partner role to support Bankwest Business with its.

Perth, Australia

As a Line 1 risk champion, I supported three lines of business (Chief Technology Office, Process Optimization, and Customer Delivery (Project Management).In this role, I rebuilt the line of business risk profiles, aligning them to business objectives. As part of this activity, I championed consideration of operational risk in the project portfolio (risk in.

Perth, Australia

In the role of Senior Manager, I was lead SME for the program that deployed the CBA Group's Operational Risk Management Framework within Bankwest. This included developing the Bankwest Risk Profile, policy and procedural development, and implementation of the CBA Group's Governance, Risk & Compliance System. The outcome of this program was that Bankwest.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is Australia's largest bank by market capitalization and size of mortgage book. In 2010, the CBA reported an NPAT of $5.6bn. As a Risk Advisor, in Group Operational Risk, I was responsible for providing framework assurance and subject matter expertise to business unit facing operational risk teams. In that role, I contributed to.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As an Assistant Manager, later promoted to Risk Advisor in October 2008, I was tasked with implementing risk frameworks and supporting business leaders to mitigate risk, across the CBA Group's Support Functions, including HR, Marketing & Communications, and Risk Management.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority is the Prudential Regulator for Australian authorized deposit taking institutions (banks), insurers, superfunds, and reinsurers. APRA now regulates 1844 institutions, with over $8.6tn in assets (as at 2024). As a Graduate and then Analyst on the Basel II Program, I was responsible for contributing to the.

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