Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. 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.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

As an Investment Risk Analyst within ANZ’s Investment Risk and Governance team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering independent, forward-looking oversight of investment risk across both multi-asset and single-sector funds. Your focus will be on ensuring portfolios remain aligned with mandate, regulatory, and fiduciary parameters, while also supporting competitive risk-adjusted performance. Ultimately, your work will help translate our investment objectives into superior outcomes for our customers. You will be part of a team shaping how risk is governed in one of New Zealand’s largest fund managers.

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 Location: Auckland

Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?

As an Investment Risk Analyst, you will:

• Track and analyse market, liquidity, factor, and counterparty risks. Translate complex data into actionable insights to keep portfolios within limits and surface emerging risks or opportunities.
• Assess how portfolios would perform under different scenarios—past events, hypothetical situations, and worst-case outcomes—to support decision-making and oversight
• Help maintain and improve investment risk policies and governance frameworks ensuring our investment approach is accurately reflected in both documentation and practice, with a focus on product governance and customer outcomes
• Serve as a trusted advisor to portfolio managers and senior leaders on investment risk matters, clearly communicating insights and contributing meaningfully to governance committee discussions when required
• Oversee compliance alerts by reviewing issues related to internal limits and mandate breaches, and provide well-informed recommendations for corrective action
• Support the wider team in assessing key return drivers through detailed performance attributions.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Extensive experience in funds management, financial markets, or quantitative analysis, with a strong focus on investment risk management
• In-depth knowledge of market, liquidity, counterparty, and derivative risk metrics
• Solid understanding of portfolio construction and asset class behaviour, including how diversification impacts performance
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with experience preparing board papers and external presentations
• Strong proficiency in investment management systems
• Ability to influence stakeholders and partners through evidence-based recommendations and trusted, collaborative communication

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.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where 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 community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community 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 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 Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. 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 an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 101901.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

18/09/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)