Senior Manager Operational Risk & Compliance

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

As a Senior Operational Risk & Compliance Manager in our Pacific Risk team, you'll be a trusted advisor to the Pacific business, supporting stakeholders across multiple countries and functions to strengthen regulatory risk management, obligations management and governance practices.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: Permanent, Full time
Role Location: This role can be based in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, or Vanuatu. Let us know what works for you.

 

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Operational Risk & Compliance Manager, you will be accountable for:

• Be a “trusted advisor” to the Pacific business, including across countries, support functions, and lines of business, and is required to form and maintain strong working relationships with country Heads of Compliance, country Chief Risk Officers, the Pacific Business Governance and Controls Line 1B team, the Heads of Countries and Enablement Functions, and Group stakeholders;
• Support and provide guidance to relevant Pacific stakeholders on implementation of, and adherence to, NFR framework requirements with a particular focus on regulatory risk management, obligations management, and business continuity/crisis management and provide training and guidance material in that regard where reasonable and appropriate to do so;
• Play an active part in the coordination, execution, and delivery of important Group NFR initiatives, and ensuring that the Pacific is aware of the requirements in respect of those initiatives, that relevant participants in those initiatives are enabled to complete required tasks, and assist with the overall quality and completeness of the Pacific outputs of those initiatives;
• Ensure the performance of ongoing review and challenge activities to provide insights to management as to the understanding of NFR framework requirements across the Pacific, the adherence to those frameworks, and on general NFR management matters.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Demonstrated experience in non-financial risk, including regulatory risk management, compliance, or operational riskperational Risk & Compliance
• Strong written and oral communications and the ability to influence and advise diverse stakeholder groups;
• Proven ability to construct and execute complex review work
• Ablity to use initiative, being proactive, and being persistent to understand and address issues;
• Highly structured approach to delivery, and able to self-develop and execute work plans as a senior member of the team.
• Ablity to manage priorities and conflicting issues on a professional manner;
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and remain delivery focused in a fast changing environment; and
• Ablity to build strong, open, and collaborative working relationships across multiple locations.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. you'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 121148 .

Job Posting End Date

11 August 2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)