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

The Senior Associate, Transformation Portfolio Oversight supports the Senior Manager in delivering independent second-line risk oversight of ANZ’s prioritised portfolio of strategic transformation programs. The role exists to assist in identifying, analysing and monitoring non-financial risks across transformation initiatives, support early escalation of material risk issues, and contribute to clear, defensible risk insights aligned to risk appetite and regulatory expectations.

The role works at program and portfolio level to analyse risk trends, interdependencies and emerging themes, supporting judgement-led challenge and high-quality governance at key risk inflection points across the change lifecycle.

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?

What you'll be doing:

Portfolio-level second line oversight & analysis: 
•    Support proportionate, risk-based oversight of ANZ’s prioritised strategic programs across initiation, design, build, implementation and transition to BAU. 
•    Analyse program artefacts, governance and delivery plans to identify material operational, compliance, conduct, technology, data and delivery risks, interdependencies and emerging themes.

Early engagement at key risk inflection points: 
•    Support early engagement on material decisions including prioritisation, scope changes, design trade-offs, delivery resets, risk acceptances and BAU handover, helping to surface and treat risks before they crystallise.

Non-financial risk outcomes & control sustainability: 
•    Assist in assessing whether transformation initiatives strengthen the control environment and avoid creation of new material control gaps. 
•    Support challenge on readiness-to-operate and sustainability of controls post-delivery.

Governance, escalation & reporting: 
•    Support effective portfolio governance through preparation of concise, decision-oriented risk reporting and thematic insights for senior risk forums. 
•    Assist with monitoring of issues, actions and time-bound risk acceptances and escalate concerns in line with defined thresholds.

Stakeholder engagement & influence: 
•    Build effective working relationships with Line 1 transformation leaders and Group Risk partners, balancing constructive partnering with independence and professional challenge.

Capability uplift & risk culture: 
•    Contribute to continuous improvement of transformation portfolio oversight practices, templates and reporting, and role model strong risk culture and ANZ values.

What will you bring?

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

•    Demonstrated experience supporting second-line risk oversight, assurance, audit or transformation governance within a regulated financial services environment. 
•    Working knowledge of operational risk, compliance risk and control frameworks and governance across program lifecycles. 
•    Strong analytical capability and ability to draft clear, executive-ready risk insights.
•    Portfolio risk analysis & judgement – analyse the portfolio to help identify systemic risks and interdependencies 
•    Risk and control evaluation – assesses control effectiveness and sustainability and forms independent, evidence-based conclusions
•    Concise written and verbal communication – contributes to decision-oriented insights tailored to executive and Board audiences
•    Stakeholder partnering - balances collaboration with independence and influences outcomes without direct authority
•    Governance & Defensibility – operates with strong discipline around documentation, escalation and regulatory-ready evidence
•    Learning agility – rapidly learns from experience, adapts thinking and behaviour in new or ambiguous situations, and applies insights to improve decisions and outcomes

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 124197 .
 

Job Posting End Date

07/10/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)