About Us
Role Location: Melbourne, or Sydney. Role Type: Permanent, Full‐time
The Financial Crime Portfolio protects ANZ, our customers and our communities by leading effective financial crime risk management across the bank. We provide specialist guidance, tools and insights that help ANZ identify, manage and report financial crime risks, and we keep our people informed through dedicated resources and internal channels. Our purpose is to anticipate and navigate emerging financial crime threats, ensuring ANZ maintains strong controls, compliant processes and trusted customer relationships. We build capability, use data to drive decisions, and support a resilient workforce equipped with the right systems and tools.
Your key accountabilities in this role will include
* Provide assurance to the Group MLRO and Head of Financial Crime Portfolio on the effectiveness, maturity and sustainability of the enterprise Financial Crime risk management framework.
* Lead enterprise governance and regulatory reporting across Board and executive committees, ensuring high‐quality insights, escalation of material risks, and clear accountability for outcomes.
* Oversee the enterprise Financial Crime risk profile, integrating regulatory change, external threat intelligence, market developments and emerging risks into forward‐looking risk assessment and response.
* Own and coordinate the Group's integrated assurance strategy, including 2LoD thematic testing, alignment with Internal Audit, and end‐to‐end visibility of control effectiveness across the three lines of defence.
* Establish and govern robust issue, breach and remediation frameworks, ensuring timely resolution, evidence integrity, and transparent reporting to executives and regulators.
* Exercise independent oversight of Financial Crime model risk, including validation frameworks for detection and screening models, and linkage of performance outcomes to risk remediation and control uplift.
* Drive enterprise data governance for Financial Crime, ensuring integrity, lineage, ownership and quality of critical risk and control data to support decision making and regulatory obligations.
* Set the strategic direction for Financial Crime governance, capability and culture, including leading a high‐performing team and influencing senior stakeholders on interpretation and implementation of regulatory and compliance frameworks.
About You
* Extensive Financial Crime, Compliance and Non‐Financial Risk experience within banking or financial services with deep expertise across AML/CTF, KYC, Sanctions and Fraud in multi‐jurisdictional environments.
* Broad and demonstrable experience across Compliance and Non‐Financial Risk, including governance, assurance, regulatory engagement and risk management frameworks.
* The ability to lead and motivate diverse teams, anchoring your approach in ANZ's values. This includes a reputation for coaching, encouraging curiosity and investing in people development.
* Strong understanding of the banking operating environment, including business strategy, market dynamics and key drivers of the risk/reward relationship.
* Proven ability to establish and maintain highly effective internal and external networks, enabling collaboration across senior stakeholders, regulators and industry forums.
* Demonstrated experience influencing, negotiating and providing strategic guidance to senior leaders on complex regulatory and compliance matters.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex Financial Crime and risk insights into clear, actionable reporting for Board and Executive audiences.
* Proven leadership capability with deep interpersonal skills, including building, leading and developing high‐performing teams and fostering a strong compliance and risk culture.
Inclusive and Diverse Work Environment
ANZ recognises the value of an inclusive and diverse work environment. We take pride in the diversity of our people and encourage applications from diverse candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. Our recruitment decisions are based on the key inherent needs and requirements of each role, and candidates are selected based on their unique strengths and characteristics. We work flexibly at ANZ.
Job Posting End Date: 15/06/2026 11:59pm (Melbourne Australia)
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