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

As part of the Enterprise Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team, this role is a leader with deep expertise in Information Security risk management who can solve complex problems and exercise a high degree of evaluative judgement and insight. This role will be supporting the ‘Information Security Risk Theme’ which is a centrally managed Enterprise framework on how Information Security as a risk is managed globally. The role will foster strong working relationships with colleagues across geographies and risk partners in both Group Technology and global Business Divisions, provide advice/guidance on information security risk and compliance management and perform detailed oversight of global information security risks, controls and environmental factors, including events and indicators, using data analysis and insight.

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
Role Location: Melbourne or Brisbane
Work Hours: Full-Time

What will your day look like?

As a Chapter Lead, you will:

• Develop chapter members to build existing skills in governance, risk and compliance
• Courageously drive productivity and wellbeing in a culture of professionalism
• Create psychological safety for every chapter member
• Provide expert guidance on setting risk appetite including group Risk Appetite Statements and challenging risk appetite in line with a changing environment
• Provide expert, division-agnostic guidance on how to perform risk identification specific to Risk Theme, including risk-theme specific Risk Applicability Guidance
• Provide SME guidance and advise on risk assessment
• Provide oversight on emerging global risks
• Advise the business on interpretation and implementation of the Information Security Risk Theme requirements
• Define Risk Theme specific scenarios that may result in unexpected impact or disruption for the relevant business
• Conduct scenario analysis to stress test and examine impact of scenarios on business operations and effectiveness of processes and controls in place to mitigate or respond to scenarios
• Mentor, coach and advise junior employees about how to manage an Enterprise Security Risk Management program.
• Create career opportunities for chapter members to achieve personal growth, knowledge development and promotion
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to product owner and support Product Area Lead to achieve Technology Area objectives

What will you bring?

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

• 12+ years’ experience in Operational risk and/or Compliance or related disciplines
• Tertiary qualified, ideally with Professional and, or Post Graduate qualifications with strong technically relevant skills and understanding of technology risk.
• Deep understanding of information security industry standards, regulations and best practices (e.g. APRA CPS 234, ISO27001, NIST CSF, NIST SP800-53, PCI DSS etc).
• Partnership with Product Owner to lead home technology squad
• Resolve complex problems around people related issues
• Provide design leadership and role model strategic behaviours for technology development 
• Participate proactively in the formation and evolution of the strategic governance, risk and compliance roadmap
• Interpersonal skills, especially empathy, compassion, leadership, sensitivity to a wide variety of ancestral traditions and cultures
• Be a leading figure in the actualisation, implementation and benefit realisation of the strategic governance, risk and compliance roadmap
• Ability to form and own opinions, including challenge on compliance arrangements where appropriate. 
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders including excellent negotiating, influencing and conflict management skills. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, ability to take a lead in workshops and drive meaningful outcomes. 
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to build and maintain relationships. 
• Willingness to look at things differently, challenge the status quo and innovate. 
• Proven analytical skills and evidence-based decision making. 
• A ‘growth mindset’ and ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement. 
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity. 
• Experience with and understanding of security governance, risk, and compliance concepts in in the financial sector. 
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and experience with Agile tools such as Confluence and Jira. 

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 117480 .
 

Job Posting End Date

25/06/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)