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 the Associate Director, Sanctions Institutional you will support the Director Sanctions with the effective Sanctions risk management for the Insto division ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations, adherence to enterprise risk management standards and uplifting Sanctions capabilities in the business.

You will support the Director Sanctions providing sanctions advisory to support business value chains and enhancing the risk and control environment; support top-down risk identification, assessments, regulatory or policy change implementation, escalate gaps where controls or frameworks are not effective, and partners with business teams to sustainably design and embed robust financial crime and fraud controls.

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, 40hrs/week

What will your day look like?

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead and support sanctions risk management across business processes, products, and customer journeys.
• Translate sanctions requirements into clear business outcomes, ensuring understanding and value realization.
• Apply and embed Group Risk policies, standards, and regulatory obligations into divisional practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to integrate risk requirements into efficient, customer-focused business processes.
• Conduct risk and impact assessments, including control effectiveness reviews, residual risk analysis, and implementation of regulatory or policy changes.
• Provide risk insights and advisory support through data analysis, while collaborating with Group Risk and key stakeholders to drive consistent risk expectations and outcomes.

What will you bring?

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

• Strong knowledge of financial crime and sanctions risk, risk management frameworks and regulatory obligations of Financial Crime Risk.
• Ability to apply risk expertise practically within business and operational contexts across multiple teams or processes.
• Strong capability in risk analytics, tooling and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to support the evolution and embedding of risk frameworks in financial services environments; and ability to translate data and insights into practical risk mitigation strategies, including uplift initiatives.
• Strong understanding of controls design, assurance and testing.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive cross-functional collaboration.

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? (AU)

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 119898.

Job Posting End Date

29/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)