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About the Role

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Audit Lead – Financial Crime, core accountabilities include: 

 Lead Financial Crime audit engagements, or contribute as a team member on more complex audits, delivering specialist assurance through the Financial Crime Centre of Audit aligned to the approved Internal Audit plan. 

• Execute deep dive and thematic Financial Crime audits, including audits of group-wide frameworks, controls and governance supporting the prevention, detection and response to Financial Crime risk. 

• Apply Financial Crime and fraud judgement in audit scoping, testing and conclusions, supporting Internal Audit’s assessment of Financial Crime and fraud risk control effectiveness. 

• Contribute to annual and ongoing Financial Crime audit planning, providing input on emerging issues, regulatory developments and thematic risks across Financial Crime domains. 

• Manage audit delivery responsibilities to agreed timelines and budgets, ensuring disciplined execution, timely escalation of delivery risks and strong issue follow-up and validation readiness. 

• Apply sound risk judgement and strong methodology discipline, ensuring audit work is delivered in accordance with Internal Audit methodology, Global Internal Audit Standards and relevant risk management frameworks. 

• Apply a data-first audit mindset, leveraging data analytics and AI to strengthen audit scoping, testing, insight and assurance outcomes. 

• Engage with business stakeholders throughout audit delivery, maintaining effective working relationships and escalating matters requiring judgement appropriately. 

• Ensure audit findings and recommendations are clear, proportionate and value-adding, and clearly linked to control effectiveness and regulatory expectations. 

• Lead, coach and develop audit team members and foster a strong speak-up culture, role modelling challenge, integrity and sound professional judgement. 

What will you bring?

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

• Internal audit expertise: Strong understanding of audit methodology, evidence standards, reporting and issue validation, applied to complex and high-risk assurance. 

• Financial Crime expertise: Deep expertise in Financial Crime risk, including regulatory obligations, governance frameworks and controls supporting the prevention, detection and response to Financial Crime risk across the Group. 

• Fraud expertise: Deep expertise in assessing internal and external fraud risk, including fraud typologies, detection and prevention controls, and the interaction between fraud and broader Financial Crime risks. 

• Regulatory risk capability: Strong understanding of Financial Crime regulatory expectations, supervisory focus areas and regulatory developments, and how these translate into effective control design and operation. 

• Specialist assurance delivery: Demonstrated experience delivering complex, thematic or framework-level Financial Crime audits with high-quality, defensible outcomes, including the use of data analytics, typology-driven testing and automated techniques to strengthen audit scoping, testing and insight. 

• Stakeholder engagement: Strong ability to engage senior stakeholders, apply constructive challenge and communicate complex audit conclusions clearly. 

• Leadership and culture: Experience supporting development of audit team members and contributing to a strong speak-up culture, role modelling integrity, independence and sound professional judgement. 

• Good to have: Knowledge of international and cross-border Financial Crime risk, experience with remediation activity, or experience contributing to thematic or cross-portfolio assurance reviews is advantageous. 

• Qualification: Tertiary qualification and/or relevant professional certification (e.g. CIA, CA, CPA, CAMS, ICA or CFE), with postgraduate qualifications in financial crime, risk management, compliance, audit or law advantageous. 

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 118715 .
 

Job Posting End Date

09/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)