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 a Financial Crime Risk Senior Lead within the Financial Crime Risk Team, you will be responsible for leading team members in combating financial crime against ANZ and its customers.

The Financial Crime Risk Team acts as a subject matter expert in financial crime risk management and is responsible for providing review, challenge, and support across the financial crime environment.

Financial Crime in this context includes AML/CTF, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption, and Fraud.

This role is broad and spans across multiple business units, including but not limited to:

• Transaction Banking
• Financial Institutions Group (FIG)
• Australia Retail
• Business and Private Bank
• Australia Institutional
• Corporate Finance
• Markets
• Trade
• Corporate Centre
• Non‑Bank Entities

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: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008
Work Hours: Full-time

What will your day look like?

This role is accountable for:

• Providing assurance, where required, to the Head of Financial Crime Risk & Advisory that financial crime risk is effectively identified and managed across the relevant divisions and business units.
• Ensuring effective advice, review, and challenge of the financial crime environment by overseeing that the business (i.e., 1st line of defence) manages risk within ANZ’s risk appetite.
• Overseeing that relevant business units appropriately manage their financial crime obligations and control objectives, and that they implement commensurate mitigating controls and testing.
• Ensuring financial crime–related review and challenge is conducted as it relates to the business units’ management of issues, events, and potential regulatory interactions.
• Demonstrating strong industry relationships and participating in relevant internal and industry financial crime forums.
• Ensuring material events and matters are escalated to the Head of Financial Crime Risk & Advisory and the Head of Financial Crime Portfolio / Group MLRO for further escalation to forums such as Divisional Risk Committees, the Operational Risk Executive Forum, and the Board Risk Committee.
• Working with the Financial Crime Risk Team leadership to build and line-manage a high-performing team, including establishing and maintaining succession plans for key roles.
• Participating in and providing inputs to relevant Financial Crime Portfolio working groups and forums.
• Developing, supporting, and contributing to 2nd line Financial Crime Risk thematic reviews across ANZ divisions and businesses.
• Establishing productive relationships with 1st line financial crime risk teams across the relevant divisions to create an ecosystem that protects the community and ANZ from financial crime threats.
• Ensuring ANZ’s core values are upheld at all times in dealings with staff, colleagues, and customers.

What will you bring?

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

• A high level of proficiency in core financial crime areas, including Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, and Counter-Terrorism Financing.
• Practical knowledge of the relevant business unit, including its products, services, and associated risks.
• Strong strategic capability, with the ability to design, influence, and drive strategic initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills, particularly at the Executive level.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities and sound decision‑making skills.
• Previous experience in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in Financial Crime Risk Management / Advisory, operational risk management, control assurance, and financial crime within the financial services industry.
• Experience conducting thematic “deep‑dive” financial crime reviews.

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 109245 .
 

Job Posting End Date

08/05/2026 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)