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 millions of customers.

About the Role

The Program Oversight Lead plays a key role in providing independent second‑line oversight of material change initiatives, ensuring that risks arising from programs and delivery activities are appropriately identified, assessed and managed.  

The role supports sound risk outcomes and alignment with regulatory expectations through consistent, objective assurance over program delivery and implementation. 

The role contributes to strengthening the organisation’s risk culture by promoting disciplined oversight practices, robust assurance, and informed decision‑making across programs and portfolios

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 Type: Permanent - multiple opportunities available
Role Location: Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane 
Work Hours: 40 hours per week 

What will your day look like?

As a Program Oversight Lead, you will:

Strategic leadership 

• Work closely with key stakeholders to design and execute the program oversight and assurance approach, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and Non-Financial Risk management standards. 

• Partner with Risk Leadership and relevant business executives to embed robust second line oversight of programs and uplift risk culture through consistent assurance practices. 

• Lead coordination across divisional risk teams to align on delivery and delivered risk, so stakeholders hear one clear and consistent view of risk. 

Oversight and assurance of programs 

• Provide independent oversight of material programs, applying consistent frameworks for change and delivery risk oversight, including risk assessments, independent challenge, thematic analysis, and program health reviews. 

• Assess the effectiveness of risk controls and management actions across programs, identifying systemic issues or emerging risks and escalating material concerns to senior stakeholders. 

• Maintain a clear view of priority risk areas and key areas of focus across the portfolio, including where additional assurance is needed to support sustainable outcomes for strategic projects. 

Stakeholder engagement and governance 

• Present independent insights, findings, and thematic outcomes to relevant senior governance forums to support effective decision making and delivery confidence. 

• Work with divisional risk teams and program leaders to agree ownership, messages, and actions on delivery risk, delivered risk, and residual risk. 

• Engage constructively with regulators, where required, to support transparency and alignment with supervisory expectations for program risk management. 

• Partner effectively with Internal Audit to ensure clear delineation of responsibilities and complementary assurance coverage. 

Assurance planning and coverage 

• Translate portfolio risk insights into assurance priorities and inputs to the assurance plan, including targeted reviews where risk, control performance, or delivery confidence requires deeper testing. 

• Track assurance outcomes and actions to closure and confirm that fixes are embedded and sustained for strategic programs. 

Continuous improvement and risk insight 

• Monitor emerging risks, regulatory themes, and lessons learned to continuously enhance program oversight and assurance practices. 

• Provide insights to strengthen delivery discipline, uplift risk maturity, and support sustainable improvements in program governance and resilience. 

What will you bring?

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

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 111334.
 

Job Posting End Date

05/03/2026 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)