Group Head of Funding

• Location: Sydney

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

We’re seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to join QBE as our Group Head of Funding—a high-impact role reporting directly to the Group Treasurer. With global accountability, you’ll shape and drive our Capital Markets, Bank Funding/Facilities, and Banking Relationships strategy across the enterprise.

This is a rare opportunity to influence the financial future of a global insurer, working at the intersection of strategy, execution, and stakeholder engagement.

Your new role

As the Group Head of Funding, you’ll be the face of QBE’s Group Treasury—representing us to regulators, rating agencies, capital investors, and senior internal stakeholders including Group Boards and executive committees. You’ll be a key member of the Group Treasury leadership team, partnering closely with the Group Treasurer and Group CFO to deliver on our global treasury vision.

Key accountabilities include:

• Shaping and executing QBE’s Global Treasury strategy in collaboration with senior leadership.

• Leading negotiations with banking partners and capital markets participants.

• Representing QBE at the highest levels—internally and externally—on funding and capital matters.

• Designing and implementing strategies for credit facilities and bank relationships.

• Driving global development of financial market instruments and funding decisions.

• Managing financial risk and ensuring alignment with QBE’s strategic objectives.

About you

You’re a seasoned finance and markets leader with a proven ability to navigate complexity and deliver strategic outcomes. With deep expertise in treasury markets risk management—particularly in cash, funding, and FX—you bring a high level of technical competence and commercial insight. A confident negotiator, you thrive in high-stakes environments, demonstrating resilience and sound judgment to drive optimal outcomes. Your elevated commercial acumen enables you to align funding decisions with broader strategic goals, ensuring value creation and long-term impact.

You’ll bring:

• Extensive expertise in treasury markets risk management, especially in cash/funding and FX.

• Prior experience in the insurance sector or a strong understanding of industry dynamics will be highly advantageous.

• Proven success in leading high-stakes negotiations and managing senior stakeholder relationships.

• A strategic mindset with strong commercial acumen and decision-making capability.

• A commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement.

• A passion for leadership and building high-performing teams.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance

• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest

• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super

• Voluntary super contributions and company matching

• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums

• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program

• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice

• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards

• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion

• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates

• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

Apply now

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

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QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.