Senior Associate - Institutional NFR, Corporate Finance
Senior Associate - Institutional NFR, Corporate Finance
About Us
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 customers. Our Institutional bank helps our largest customers move trade and capital around the region, providing our people with great opportunities to build their technical expertise and their careers.
About the Role
This role is responsible for supporting the management of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) across Corporate Finance products and activities, including Corporate Lending, Structured Finance, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Syndicated Lending, and related client solutions.
Working under the guidance of senior NFR colleagues, the role partners with business, product, sales, implementation, operations, technology, legal, compliance, and control stakeholders to provide practical risk support that enables safe, sustainable, and customer-focused outcomes.
At the Junior Associate Director level, the role supports the identification, assessment, monitoring, management, and reporting of material non-financial risks across the end-to-end product, transaction, and client lifecycle. The incumbent will contribute to strengthening the control environment, support product and process change initiatives, assist with governance and regulatory readiness activities, and escalate issues, incidents, and emerging risks through appropriate channels.
Role Type: Permanent
Role Location: Bengaluru
What will your day look like?
This role is accountable for supporting the delivery of the following outcomes:
Business and Risk Partnership
- Support senior NFR colleagues in providing practical risk advice and challenge across Corporate Finance products, client solutions, strategic initiatives, and business change activities.
- Prepare analysis on risk profiles, control effectiveness, customer outcomes, and risk implications associated with Corporate Finance activities and related business processes.
- Translate business, operational, and technology risk information into clear insights, reports, and recommendations for stakeholders and governance forums.
Risk and Control Environment
- Assist in the identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of non-financial risks across Corporate Finance activities, including operational, compliance, technology, cyber, data,
- fraud, third-party, conduct, financial crime, and resilience risks.
- Support control uplift initiatives by maintaining risk and control documentation, collating evidence, analysing key risk indicators, and tracking actions, issues, and remediation plans.
- Contribute to the timely completion of risk assessments, control reviews, issue management, incident response, and remediation activities.
Product, Process and Change Risk
- Support risk input for new lending products, client solutions, business process enhancements, regulatory change initiatives, and Corporate Finance transformation activities.
- Assist with risk assessments, implementation controls, dependency tracking, and governance throughout design, testing, implementation, and post-implementation review phases.
- Identify potential operational, control, regulatory, or delivery risks and escalate concerns where they may impact customers, regulatory compliance, business performance, or resilience outcomes.
Governance, Regulatory Readiness and Stakeholder Engagement
- Prepare and maintain governance materials, issue updates, action trackers, and supporting documentation for relevant risk and business forums.
- Support a regulator-ready environment through accurate record keeping, evidence management, timely action closure, and robust documentation practices.
- Work collaboratively with Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Financial Crime, Second Line Risk, and Internal Audit stakeholders to support effective risk management outcomes.
Risk Culture and Capability
- Support the embedding of strong first-line risk ownership and accountability across the Corporate Finance business.
- Share lessons learned from incidents, reviews, audits, regulatory feedback, and thematic risk assessments with stakeholders.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Corporate Finance non-financial risk processes, tools, governance practices, and control frameworks.
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
- 10+ years of experience in Financial Services, Corporate Finance, Non-Financial Risk, Operational Risk, Controls, Governance, Compliance, Audit, or Risk Management roles.
- Strong understanding of Corporate Finance products and activities, including Corporate Lending, Structured Finance, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Syndicated Lending, and related client solutions.
- Sound understanding of Non-Financial Risk management concepts, including risk assessments, controls, issue and incident management, governance, risk reporting, and risk-in-change.
- Awareness of key risks relevant to Corporate Finance businesses, including operational, compliance, conduct, technology, cyber, data, fraud, third-party, financial crime, and resilience risks.
- Ability to analyze risk and control information, identify emerging themes, prepare clear documentation, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Experience supporting governance processes, action tracking, risk assessments, remediation activities, control uplift initiatives, and regulatory change programs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summaries complex information for stakeholders and governance forums.
- Proven stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, risk, and control functions.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- A proactive mindset and commitment to driving strong risk culture, effective controls, and sustainable risk outcomes.
So why join us?
ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world. Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong.
We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it). Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.
We want to continue building a diverse workplace and welcome applications from everyone. Please talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirements, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.com/careers/. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 122068
Job Posting End Date
24/08/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)