Senior Manager Compliance Risk

Req ID: 114534

Department: NZ - Non-Financial Risk - Conduct & Compliance Ris

Division: New Zealand

Location: Auckland

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 Senior Manager Compliance Risk, you’ll play a critical leadership role within ANZ’s First Line of Defence, partnering closely with business leaders to identify, assess and manage compliance risks across end‑to‑end value chains.

With a strong focus on compliance and prudential risk, you'll provide trusted advice and challenge, influence key decisions, and help shape sustainable risk outcomes across the business. You'll bring sound judgement, critical thinking and commercial acumen to navigate complex regulatory environments, ensuring regulatory obligations are understood, embedded and effectively managed.

This role requires more than technical expertise. We're looking for a leader who can influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, build capability in others and drive a strong risk culture through thought leadership, coaching and collaboration.

You'll operate at the intersection of strategy, regulation and practical delivery, helping ANZ meet its regulatory obligations while supporting better customer, business and risk outcomes. 

Role Location: Auckland or Wellington

Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

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

You'll play a key role in helping the business manage compliance and prudential risk by providing trusted advice, challenge and leadership across complex regulatory environments.

As a Senior Manager Compliance Risk, you will:

Lead complex compliance and prudential risk assessments, identifying emerging risks, control weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen risk management practices.
Partner with senior stakeholders to provide trusted advice, thought leadership and constructive challenge, influencing key decisions on compliance and prudential risk matters.
Drive the design, review and uplift of controls, monitoring activities and remediation initiatives, ensuring regulatory obligations are effectively embedded and managed.
Influence governance and business decision-making through the delivery of risk insights, recommendations and pragmatic risk-based solutions.
Support the implementation of regulatory and policy change, helping the business understand impacts and embed sustainable outcomes.
Lead, coach and develop team members while building organisational capability and fostering a culture of accountability, curiosity and critical thinking.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

Strong compliance risk management experience within financial services, including significant experience interpreting and applying prudential regulatory obligations and frameworks.
Experience leading complex risk assessments, control reviews, remediation activities and regulatory change initiatives across large and complex environments.
Strong critical thinking and judgement, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge assumptions and provide pragmatic, risk-based recommendations on complex issues.
Proven ability to influence, challenge and build credibility with senior stakeholders, driving accountability and better risk outcomes.
Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching and developing high-performing teams and building organisational capability.
The ability to lead the development of an inclusive workplace culture and engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders.
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 114534.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

03/09/2026 , 11.59pm, (NZST)