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 the Financial Controller, Pacific in our team, you’ll play a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial information to support the CFO Pacific, the wider Pacific Leadership Team, and the NZ CFO Units Finance team. You’ll be responsible for overseeing business unit accounting, statutory and regulatory reporting, and finance governance across the region. This includes leading the operational management of financial control and tax matters, ensuring the successful delivery of month-end processes, reconciliations, and financial strategy to support robust reporting and audit outcomes.

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, Full time  

Role Location: The role can be based in various ANZ locations across the Pacific

Note: There are no international assignee benefits attached to this role.

What will your day look like?

As the Financial Controller Pacific, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the monthly financial close process, including finalising actuals, reviewing performance, delivering results to senior stakeholders, and ensuring governance supports data integrity
• Overseeing onshore and offshore delivery and performance, including issue resolution and offshore escalation
• Building and maintaining effective, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across Pacific, NZ, and Group functions (e.g. Finance, Products, Operations, Legal)
• Ensuring the accuracy of Financial Control outputs and compliance with Group policies, procedures, and governance standards
• Driving simplification, standardisation, and process improvement, including elimination or relocation of financial control activities where appropriate
• Recruiting, motivating, developing, and managing the performance of direct reports to ensure quality outcomes and strong team cohesion within the Finance function

What will you bring?

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

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• A recognised professional accounting qualification such as Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Practising Accountant (CPA), or equivalent
• Extensive years of professional experience in Finance roles
• Proven experience in statutory, regulatory, and tax accounting within a banking environment
• Strong leadership and people management capabilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels across the bank
• Understanding of the complexities of operating within a large, matrixed organisation
• Experience working with offshore teams and navigating cross-border collaboration

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 are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

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 103063.

Job Posting End Date

24 September 2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)