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

Financial Crime Threat Management (FCTM) is committed to safeguarding ANZ businesses and communities from financial crime risks. By utilising customer data and intelligence, FCTM identifies, investigates, and escalates potentially suspicious activities, including money laundering, terrorist financing, and dealings with sanctioned entities. FCTM specialists operate within the Financial Crime Portfolio, assisting businesses across the group in meeting their financial crime regulatory requirements.

As a Financial Crime Risk Assessment Lead, you will play a critical role within Financial Crime Threat Management (FCTM), supporting ANZ’s commitment to effectively identify, assess and manage financial crime risks across the enterprise.

The role is accountable for the end‑to‑end ownership of ANZ’s Financial Crime Risk Assessment framework, including Enterprise‑Wide, Country, Product, Channel, Customer and Jurisdictional risk assessments. This includes ensuring methodologies, governance and supporting tools remain fit‑for‑purpose, aligned to ANZ’s AML/CTF and Sanctions obligations, and reflective of the organisation’s risk appetite.  

You will work closely with stakeholders across the three lines of defence to maintain a consistent, intelligence‑led approach to risk assessment, enabling the business to understand its inherent and residual financial crime risk exposure and implement appropriate controls.

This role is central to maintaining ANZ’s compliance with regulatory expectations and supporting continuous uplift of financial crime risk assessment practices across the Group.

Role Type:Permanent
Role Location: Melbourne

What will your day look like?

Your key activities may include:

• Leading the delivery and periodic refresh of financial crime enterprise‑wide and targeted risk assessments, ensuring appropriate consideration of relevant financial crime risk factors
• Overseeing the design and continuous enhancement of financial crime risk assessment methodologies, ensuring alignment with regulatory guidance, emerging typologies and industry best practice
• Partnering closely with stakeholders across FCTM, the broader Financial Crime Portfolio, business, technology and enterprise strategic programs to drive improvements in financial crime risk assessment frameworks and supporting tools
• Monitoring changes in the external environment, including regulatory developments, threat intelligence and other insights, and incorporating these into risk assessments and methodology updates
• Supporting product owners and country teams in the completion of financial crime Product/Channel and Country risk assessments, including providing guidance on methodology, tooling and interpretation of outputs, as well as consolidating country‑level insights into an enterprise‑wide view
• Identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance data utilisation and improve the effectiveness of risk assessment tools and dashboards
• Driving strategic uplift initiatives to further strengthen the financial crime risk assessment framework, methodologies and supporting capabilities.

What will you bring?

• Deep understanding of AML/CTF, sanctions and broader financial crime risks, including associated regulatory obligations
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and maintaining financial crime risk assessment methodologies
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to synthesise complex data, intelligence and regulatory guidance into clear and actionable risk insights
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across business, risk and technology functions to drive consistent outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and remain outcome‑focused in a dynamic and evolving environment
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with attention to detail and a solutions‑oriented approach
• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience enhancing processes, tools and data capabilities to improve efficiency and quality

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 117646 .
 

Job Posting End Date

01/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)