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Sustainability, Brand and Communications
This team focuses on enhancing, creating and maintaining relationships between the bank and our internal and external stakeholders. We aim to maintain and improve Westpac's good reputation and to positively position Westpac in the market, amongst our people and in the wider community.

We also have a central role in ensuring Westpac's strategy, mission, vision and values are communicated and widely understood by all our stakeholders.

Group Internal Communications
Group Internal Communications is the organisation's internal communications arm. This team provides a range of communication services to people leaders across the organisation to help them achieve their business objectives through effective engagement of their people.

We help employees understand how what they do helps the overall purpose of the bank. Our team of 60 works closely to ensure all internal communication is integrated with common meaning, language and context.

Our goals are aligned to the bank's ambition to earn all our customers' business. This means we aspire to help the bank achieve the targets set for being the most recommended financial services company, meeting the most customer needs, the most skilled and engaged employees who are passionate about delighting customers, being a global leader in sustainability and highest shareholder returns in the sector .

Find out what it's really like to work in Westpac's Communications team

Shaun de Wet Steyn Communications Lead, Enterprise Channels & Infrastructure Business Technology Solutions & Services "My role is to act as a trusted advisor to business leaders and help them engage with their people to build a high performance culture. We're constantly looking at new and better ways to foster a genuine dialogue between the bank's leadership and its people. Employee engagement isn't a passing fad at Westpac - people are really encouraged to speak up and have their say - congratulate someone on a job well done, but also give constructive feedback on what could be done better. My job is all about helping people connect with the bank's strategy and direction and with one another."

Graham Paterson Head of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability "I've been with Westpac for 37 years. An organisation this size, with this many people and branches across the country, impacts strongly on the Australian community. We are very conscious of our corporate responsibility. We're catalysts for change, constantly monitoring, improving and adapting to reflect the changing environment we live in. Our cultural values of teamwork, integrity and performance are embedded across the organisation, and they drive our actions and behaviours - the way we do our jobs and how we operate our business. It takes time, but there's a sincere desire to respond to the needs of our people, our clients and our customers, and I'm proud to be a part of it."