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

As a Chief Risk Officer, Hong Kong, reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, International, you will be pivotal in safeguarding the financial strength, resilience and reputation of ANZ’s Hong Kong franchise through strong, independent and forward-looking risk leadership.

You will lead risk management across Hong Kong, ensuring risks are effectively identified, assessed, managed and reported in line with ANZ’s Group risk appetite, policies and standards, and all local regulatory and supervisory expectations. As the senior risk leader, you will provide oversight and stewardship across all risk domains, including Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational, Compliance, Financial Crime, Conduct, Strategic and Climate risk.

You will play a critical role in shaping sound decision making, enabling prudent balance sheet management and supporting sustainable growth through robust oversight and constructive challenge. Operating in a dynamic regulatory, geopolitical and economic environment, you will build trusted relationships with regulators and supervisory authorities, ensuring continued confidence in ANZ’s Hong Kong operations.

As a key advisor to country leadership, you will champion a strong risk culture and drive effective governance, accountability and transparency across the franchise.

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: Hong Kong
Role Type: Full-time

What will your day look like?

As a Chief Risk Officer, Hong Kong, you will;

• Own end-to-end risk management across Hong Kong, ensuring all material risks are identified, assessed, controlled, monitored and reported within approved risk appetite
• Provide independent, credible risk leadership and oversight across the Hong Kong franchise, with clear accountability for risk outcomes
• Ensure robust risk governance and effective decision-making forums across the business
• Implement and maintain Hong Kong-specific Risk Appetite Statements aligned to Group expectations and local regulatory requirements
• Exercise credit approval discretion (“CAD”) or provide support to higher CAD holders in relation to material customer relationships and/or complex credits
• Drive consistent application of Group policies, standards and control frameworks, with appropriate local calibration
• Act as a trusted adviser to the Hong Kong ExCo and senior leaders, delivering forward-looking risk advice and constructive challenge
• Lead engagement with regulators and supervisory authorities, including reviews, submissions and issue remediation
• Maintain strong regulatory relationships through transparent engagement and timely delivery of commitments
• Oversee financial crime, conduct and compliance risks, ensuring effective controls, monitoring, escalation and remediation
• Champion a strong risk culture, embedding accountability, ethical behaviour, speaking up and risk-based decision making
• Ensure timely identification, escalation and resolution of risks and control issues, with strong oversight of remediation programmes
• Lead and develop the Hong Kong Risk team, fostering a high-performing environment and aligning with Group risk priorities and frameworks

What will you bring?

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

• Senior risk leadership experience within a complex, regulated banking environment, with accountability for end-to-end risk management at country or franchise level 
• Deep knowledge across key banking risk disciplines, including credit, market, liquidity, operational, compliance and financial crime risk 
• Proven expertise in regulatory engagement, with a strong track record of leading interactions with regulators and supervisory authorities 
• Experience operating in Hong Kong or similarly complex international financial centres, including exposure to geopolitical, sanctions or financial crime risk environments 
• Experience supporting strategic change, business transformation or regulatory uplift, with exposure to Board, ExCo or senior governance forums and data-driven risk management 
• Experience in exercising credit approval discretion (“CAD”) or providing support to higher CAD holders in relation to material customer relationships and/or complex credits
• An enterprise mindset, balancing local accountability with alignment to Group standards, priorities and risk appetite 
• Strong executive judgement and decision-making capability, with the ability to provide clear, balanced and independent risk advice under pressure 
• Highly developed stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, regulators and Group stakeholders 
• Demonstrated people leadership capability, including leading professional risk teams, developing talent and embedding strong risk culture and conduct
  

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 are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

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 118201.

Job Posting End Date

29/06/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)