Michael Rowland

Michael Rowland joined Westpac Group as Chief Financial Officer in September 2020 and was appointed a director of Westpac New Zealand Limited in August 2021. He is responsible for Westpac’s Finance, Group Audit, Investor Relations, Tax and Treasury functions. Michael is a member of the Board Technology Committee and the Board Audit Committee.

Before joining Westpac, Michael was a Partner in Management Consulting at KPMG. Before that he held a number of senior executive positions at ANZ from 1999 to 2013. This included CFO Institutional Banking, CFO Wealth, CFO New Zealand, CFO Personal Financial Services, and business leadership roles as CEO Pacific, Managing Director Mortgages and General Manager, Transformation. Michael commenced his career at KPMG, where he was promoted to become a Tax Partner in 1993.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma of Taxation Law, Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand.