Ko Mātou – About Us

Mō te tūranga - About the role

As Manager, Financial Crime & Fraud Risk, you’ll play a key role in managing financial crime and fraud risk within ANZ’s First Line of Defence. Working in the Financial Crime & Fraud Risk Centre of Expertise, you’ll partner closely with business teams to assess risks, embed effective controls, and support regulatory and policy change across end‑to‑end value chains.

You’ll provide practical risk insight and advice, influencing decision‑making, ensure adherence to risk and compliance frameworks, and identify control gaps where improvements are required. Acting as a trusted first line risk partner, you’ll help deliver specialist high‑quality risk management and assurance outcomes, build capability, and reinforce a strong financial crime and fraud risk culture.

Role Location: Auckland or Wellington

Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

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

As Manager, Financial Crime & Fraud Risk, you will be:

• Managing and coordinating financial crime and fraud risk assessments across business processes, systems, data and end‑to‑end value chains
• Partnering with business teams to design, uplift and embed effective financial crime and fraud controls aligned to enterprise and regulatory needs
• Translating financial crime and fraud requirements into practical business advice that balances customer, business and regulatory outcomes
• Supporting regulatory and policy change, including impact assessments and implementation activities
• Reviewing control design and effectiveness, identifying gaps and supporting risk-based improvements, remediation planning and delivery
• Preparing risk analysis, insights and thematic reporting to support governance forums and management decision‑making
• Monitoring risk and control effectiveness using indicators, analytics and emerging trend insights (internal and external) to strengthen monitoring of risk and control effectiveness
• Acting as a trusted first line risk partner, strengthening ownership and accountability for financial crime and fraud risk
• Coaching and developing team members while building financial crime and fraud risk capability across the business

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Strong knowledge of financial crime and fraud risk management frameworks, standards and regulatory obligations
• Experience coordinating complex risk assessments, reviewing control design and effectiveness, and supporting remediation in a financial services environment
• The ability to interpret and translate technical financial crime and fraud requirements into clear, business and customer centric embedded solutions
• Strong judgement and a risk‑based mindset, with the ability to balance customer, business and regulatory outcomes.
• Well‑developed analytical skills, with the ability to identify risk themes, trends and emerging issues
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, operating as a trusted first line risk partner
• Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills, including preparing materials for governance and decision-making
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement with experience coaching others and driving capability uplift and a strong risk culture

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 114310.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

01/06/2026 , 11.59pm, (NZST)