Manager, Carbon, Commodities & Trade, WIB FCF BCM

Create your best future and accelerate your career at Westpac as a Manager, Carbon, Commodities & Trade, WIB FCF BCM

• Permanent Full-time opportunity
• Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane based
• Hybrid working model

What’s the role?

This role sits within the Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB) Financial Crime and Fraud team. You’ll be part of a dynamic and global team providing end-to-end oversight of financial crime risk across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud and scams, and anti-bribery and corruption.

As Manager, Carbon, Commodities and Trade, you’ll provide first-line financial crime risk advice supporting WIB businesses operating in trade finance, commodities, and carbon markets. The role ensures financial crime risks are effectively identified early and managed for complex products and transactions, in line with the WIB Financial Crime Framework and Westpac’s risk appetite.

Bringing specialist expertise in trade-based financial crime, sanctions, and emerging risks, you’ll partner closely with business and operations teams to deliver proportionate and sustainable risk solutions. Additionally, there’s a key focus in supporting regulatory compliance, managing issues, and contributing to broader enterprise initiatives, ensuring risks are effectively identified, addressed, and managed in line with the Group’s risk appetite.

What do I need?

• Proven experience in financial crime risk within trade finance, commodities, or carbon markets, operating in a first-line advisory capacity.
• Strong background conducting risk assessments for complex trade structures, financing arrangements, and new or non-standard products.
• Deep knowledge of trade-based financial crime, sanctions, and emerging risks, with the ability to apply frameworks to complex customer and transaction scenarios.
• Experience designing, enhancing, and implementing controls across trade or commodities portfolios
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business and operations teams to deliver practical and sustainable risk solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and judgement, with the ability to influence decision-making and support senior management through clear risk insights.

Our promise to you

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.
• Time in role will accelerate your FC trade finance, commodities, or carbon markets, sector expertise enabling further growth, and give you exposure to WIB’s growth strategy as you elevate Westpac’s competitive edge in navigating complex regulatory reforms.

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