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 Legal Director - Financial Crime within Regulatory Legal, you will lead ANZ’s legal strategy in relation to its anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption obligations.

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, Sydney or Brisbane 
Work Hours: Full time

What will your day look like?

As Legal Director - Financial Crime, you are accountable for:

• Providing strategic, proactive, practical and commercially relevant legal advice to ANZ on its anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption obligations, working with a range of internal stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining trusted working relationships with regulators, Financial Crime, first line business units, other legal teams and external counsel.
• Managing legal resourcing, external legal spend and external lawyer performance to deliver timely, cost-effective and high-quality legal services.
• Recruiting, motivating, developing and managing direct reports to support quality output, team cohesion and effective delivery.
• Escalating significant matters where required, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting to the General Counsel, Regulatory and Group General Counsel where relevant.

What will you bring?

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

• Strong experience in advising on financial crime legal and regulatory obligations in financial services.
• Ability to identify commercial, practical and strategic legal solutions in complex and time-sensitive matters.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to work effectively with teams across ANZ.
• Ability to work under pressure and within tight timeframes while maintaining quality, judgement and risk discipline.

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.

In addition, you will have a legal qualification and current practising certificate, or eligibility to practise law in the relevant jurisdiction, as well as post-qualification experience appropriate to a senior leadership role.

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 118746 .
 

Job Posting End Date

15/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)