Financial Crime Transformation Project Advisory Manager

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

Your role as a Financial Crime Transformation Project Advisory Manager is to work with the Group Financial Crime Program to:

• Lead the way in innovative, effective and compliant financial crime risk management.
• Deliver Project Fortify, which has been established at an enterprise level to centrally manage law reform and regulatory expectations governing Financial Crime & External Fraud risk.
• In collaboration with the Financial Crime Program and the business, Project Fortify will:

• Pull the kite strings together to minimise impact on the business, reduce risk in change and overhead by delivering a coordinated approach to law reform and heightened regulatory expectations.
• Build on the foundations delivered by Accord and learnings from I.AM Amplified and CPS 230, tailoring change only where necessary.
• Where possible, leverage Group and Divisional change initiatives, NFR transformation and drive sustainable embedment.
• Support delivery of strategic outcomes to optimise Financial Crime & External Fraud risk for FY30 and beyond that are aligned with business objectives and the bank we’re building.

Role Type: 12 month Secondment (internal) / fixed term (external), Full time

What will your day look like?

As a Financial Crime Strategic Transformation Project, AML / CTF Reg & Policy Lead, you are accountable for managing:

• Assessment of changes to Financial Crime control objectives and controls as required by law reform and regulatory expectations to continuously uplift and embed the Financial Crime Risk Theme across the enterprise.
• Collaboration with the Financial Crime Advisory Team, and other specialist subject matter experts (e.g. Risk, Legal) to assess and advise on changes to the Financial Crime framework, Sanctions policies and standards reflecting relevant legislative obligations and ANZ's risk appetite.
• Provision of subject matter expertise insights and advice to the Financial Crime Strategic Transformation Project Advisory Lead with recommended actions to implement updated policies, standards, processes, controls and control objectives in conformance to regulatory expectations and Financial Crime strategic outcomes.
• Identification of innovative and data led opportunities to strengthen the Non-Financial Risk Framework.
• Building relationships internally and externally to increase collaboration and achieve better Financial Crime strategic outcomes for ANZ and the broader industry.
• Work with the Financial Crime Regulatory & Policy Team, Governance Team, and Financial Crime Threat Management, and divisions to strengthen ANZ’s implementation of Financial Crime risk and controls.
• Identification of thematic issues associated with the Risk Themes to be raised with the relevant Risk Officer (e.g. control objectives, material issues and events, control failures and improvement opportunities).

What will you bring?

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

• Financial Crime subject matter experience across AML / CTF, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, External Fraud and Scams.
• Experience managing delivery of change and project management.
• Sound understanding of risk management disciplines.
• Good understanding of banking products, channels and services.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and colleagues with empathy, facts and logic and draw on a repertoire of influencing techniques skills and manage the work through others (not just through reporting lines).
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems involving various stakeholders, create shared clarity, remain results focused and balance risk and customer outcomes.
• Strong experience in financial crime regulatory compliance in financial services industry.
• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements, expectations and better practices globally with respect to ML / TF risks.

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’re a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit ANZ Careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 88113.