Westpac Group
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Pathway Graduate Program (Feb 2026)
Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 70,000 - 100,000 / Year
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 31 Jul 2025
- Start date 16 Feb 2026
About Us
Westpac Group is now on its third Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), its fifth RAP overall. Elevate RAP organisations have a strong strategic relationship with Reconciliation Australia and actively champion initiatives to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and create societal change.
You can read more about Westpac Groupโs Reconciliation Action Plan on our website.
About the Program
Our program is structured to help you identify your focus areas. Weโll provide tailored training sessions to build and strengthen your technical and soft skills to help accelerate your personal and professional career development.
You can explore a broad range of career pathways in areas across our Institutional Bank. You will also have the opportunity to join our Indigenous Mentoring Program where you will be tailor matched to mentors across the business.
Our Indigenous Careers Team in partnership with the Grad Programs Team will be there to support you throughout your journey, from application through to program completion.
Program Eligibility
You identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, AND you are in your final year of study of a university degree OR completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree no more than 3 years ago.
We welcome applications from all degrees of study.
IMPORTANT: When completing the application form, please ensure you EXPAND ALL SECTIONS to INCLUDE your EDUCATION details and UPLOAD your RESUME & ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPT.
Your Grad Journey
Youโll start with us as a permanent employee commencing in February 2026.
Youโll complete a rotational program to help you learn about different parts of your business area. Itโs packed full of different roles, teams and project experiences.
As you near the end of your program, our team will provide you with a Career Transition Series to prepare you for the end of your Grad experience and assist you in putting your best foot forward when looking for post-program roles.
Pre-register now and we will let you know once this opportunity opens!
Reconciliation at Westpac Group
Our vision for reconciliation is an Australia where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have equitable economic participation and financial wellbeing. We seek to achieve this by listening to, learning from, partnering with, and elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
At Westpac Group our aim is to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians succeed by valuing culture, helping Indigenous employees build meaningful careers, providing better banking experiences for our Indigenous customers, and backing Indigenous business.
Westpac has been granted an S126 Exemption to sections eight (8) and fifty-one (51) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW); this allows us to advertise and recruit this role exclusively to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Provide hr advice to employees and leaders across the group
A lot of admin work - booking meetings, writing minutes, making presentation packs, liaising with eas to organise higher-ups attendance. a lot of work is given to you that others in the team would rather not do - the important thing is to have a good attitude regardless of how passionate you are about it as that attitude is what people will talk about when you roll off/apply for internal roles.
Monthly reporting. automating reports learnings and implementation
About the employer
Westpac Group
4.4
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Banking & Financial Services
When you join Westpac Group, youโll be empowered to make a difference, speak your truth and discover what success means to you.
Pros and cons of working at Westpac Group
Pros
The quality of the work and the people you work with.
Huge amount of opportunity to learn and grow.
Flexibility, atmosphere.
Rotating around between teams ensures I am learning lots and meeting heaps of people.
Great extracurricular opportunities to be involved in - from employee action groups to Toastmasters clubs.
Cons
Sometimes it is difficult to contact/work with departments outside of your area.
Because it's so big, it's very slow to move with change and onboarding to systems.
Having set days to come into the office. Hard to find a job after graduate program finishes.
Too many systems.
We are big, old and clunky. This means things can take ages to actually get done, and there can be heaps of red tape.