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 the Risk Infrastructure Lead within our Wholesale Lending Origination (WLO) programme, you’ll play a critical role supporting  this enterprise-wide initiative.  WLO is focused on transforming business lending by delivering best‑in‑class products that streamline origination, reduce complexity for bankers, and create a more consistent and seamless experience for our customers.

As the NZ Risk Infrastructure Lead for WLO, you’ll help shape the future state of credit and lending processes for Business & Agri. Bringing your deep expertise in risk systems and transformation, you’ll work closely with the programme to automate, simplify, and modernise existing processes—achieving the right balance between strong risk outcomes and an excellent experience for both bankers and customers.

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 or Wellington

Role Type: Permanent, Fulltime

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

The Risk Infrastructure Lead position is a dynamic and impactful role with a broad range of responsibilities. Some of your day-to-day activities may include the below:

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of WLO risk infrastructure, driving transformation across credit and lending processes.
• Design, build and deploy automated credit risk models and decision strategies using market‑leading platforms.
• Identify and embed best‑practice, data‑driven risk workflows, focusing on scalable automation and strong controls.
• Own and govern enterprise risk data assets, ensuring integrity, lineage, documentation and audit‑ready traceability.
• Proactively identify and manage delivery, credit and non‑financial risks, implementing effective treatment plans.
• Lead, coach and coordinate a high‑performing team and partners, delivering outcomes at pace without compromising quality.

This position offers flexibility and creativity—you’ll be encouraged to bring your unique perspective and flair to make the role your own.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• Deep expertise in credit risk, wholesale banking and automated credit decisioning within regulated environments.
• Proven delivery of complex risk or technology transformation programmes, including digitisation of credit processes.
• Strong technical capability across risk platforms, data integration, model deployment and automated decision strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary, cross‑market teams, including vendors and technology partners.
• Highly effective in ambiguous environments—shaping clarity, plans and outcomes from incomplete information.
• Rigorous delivery discipline, with proven strength in requirements definition, solution design, testing, controls and quality assurance.

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 112435.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

15/05/2026 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)