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 customers. Our Institutional bank helps our largest customers move trade and capital around the region, providing our people with great opportunities to build their technical expertise and their careers.

About the Role

As a Director, Research & Analysis (R&A) Corporate, you will lead and develop a high performing team in a fast-paced environment fostering a strong risk culture and create an environment that encourages collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in shaping portfolio strategy, maintaining credit discipline, and supporting broader business and risk initiatives. You will lead the assessment of complex transactions and provide insightful risk analysis that balances commercial opportunities with prudent risk management, across a diverse client base. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced credit professional to influence strategic business decisions, strengthen leadership capability, and contribute to the sustainable growth of the portfolio.

Role Location: 242 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

What will your day look like?

• Provide leadership, guidance and direction to the R&A team, to deliver high quality, consistent, proactive and time sensitive credit analysis, management and decisions.
• This role encompasses a relatively high degree of risk analysis and client support.  The successful applicant will need to be able to lead and coach team members, with responsibility for reviewing and guiding the quality and consistency of their work.
• Providing strategic direction and oversight across credit and risk activities, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight across the end-to-end relationship credit management process covering origination, transaction structuring, risk grading, risk analysis and credit approval, documentation, portfolio monitoring, and specialised industry research.
• Provide first line of defence (in conjunction with Relationship Managers), ensure well managed frameworks upheld, and manage credit risks within the portfolio. 
• Influence key stakeholders and business outcomes through trusted advice, challenging and shaping decisions in complex matters to support optimal risk and commercial outcomes.
• Exercise Credit Approval Discretion with strong judgement and leadership, particularly in complex or high-value scenarios.
• Be a change agent and drive efficiencies across policy, process and risk through role modelling growth mindset, leadership imperatives and embracing the digital agenda.
• Representing the function in forums across ANZ, contributing to enterprise-wide initiatives and stakeholder engagement.

What will you bring?

The ideal candidate is a naturally curious and values-driven leader with strong critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling them to distil complex financial concepts into clear, actionable insights for a broad range of stakeholders.

• Extensive banking experience with strong experience in relationship credit management and demonstrated financial analysis and modelling skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and provide actionable recommendations. 
• Highly advanced collaboration, relationship, networking and communication skills.
• Strong customer focus with the capability of leading due diligence activities, negotiations and senior level customer engagements.     
• Growth mindset, highly commercial with a proven ability to balance risk / reward priorities.
• Strong knowledge of banking processes and procedures and exposure to risk and compliance management.
• Highly motivated, self-directed, team player with ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team and able to manage multiple client engagements.

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 121320 .
 

Job Posting End Date

20/08/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)