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

The Acquisition Finance (AF) team in Australia is responsible for delivering acquisition finance solutions to ANZ clients and ANZ aligned Private Equity firms, the latter a key source of new to bank transactions for the Corporate and Institutional franchises.

The Associate Director is critical to making this happen and will be responsible for supporting the delivery, execution and ongoing management of transactions. It involves a high level of interaction with clients, Relationship Management (RM), Risk and other key stakeholders. The role also involves development of junior staff within the team.  

Role location: Melbourne or Sydney

Role type:  Permanent, Full Time

What will your day look like?

Some of the role accountabilities will include:

• End to end transaction execution including credit writing, financial modelling, due diligence assessment and loan documentation.
• Maximise returns on the customer portfolio by ensuring timely credit reviews, accurate risk grading, maximising revenues and minimising losses.
• Focus on ensuring all credit related matters have been addressed, the identification of adverse trends and potential risk events
• Contribute to the cross-sell proposition with clients through RM and product partners.
• Disciplined management and retention of existing clients in collaboration with RM, key stakeholders and Risk.
• Balance risk/return objectives in the acquisition and retention of clients within the asset writing parameters of AF.
• Maintain credit quality by ensuring Risk is engaged early and all credit related matters have been addressed, including the identification of adverse trends and potential risk events.
• Manage documented facility terms and conditions, waivers and policy exceptions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes to achieve business efficiencies.
• Contribute to and support a high performing team committed to achieving and maintaining a high standard of credit management.
• Take a leading role in motivating and developing junior staff in a high-performance environment.

What will you bring?

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

• Minimum of 5 years or more relevant experience in corporate / project / acquisition or structured finance.
• Tertiary/post graduate qualifications/relevant technical qualifications
• Sound understanding of the relevant market, business and economic trends.
• Well-developed influencing, networking and relationship skills
• Demonstrated ability to identify ongoing process efficiencies
• Experienced with risk assessment, cashflow analysis/ modelling and transaction documentation. Exposure to credit negotiations.

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.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and 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 support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch 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 health and 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 the communities we serve. 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're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 114747. 

Job Posting End Date

12/05/2026 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)