Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. 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. 

Mō te tūranga - About the role

The Senior Manager, Liquidity Risk at ANZ is responsible for the independent review and challenge of the internal systems, processes, frameworks, and models, used to measure and manage ANZ’s liquidity and funding risks.

This role provides risk oversight of the Bank’s balance sheet. You will bring extensive data analysis and model validation skills to support the bank’s ongoing liquidity model validation services.

This pivotal role in the Market and Treasury Risk team will require people leadership skills and an ability to build productive relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders across Markets, Treasury, Risk, and Finance.

It’s an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional to positively contribute to ANZ’s risk management frameworks while driving high standards of compliance and operational excellence.

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 Location: This role can be based in Auckland or Wellington. Let us know what works for you.

Role Type: Permanent

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing, challenging, and validating models that are used to calculate the RBNZ liquidity metrics including liquidity stress testing in accordance with sound model governance principles.
• Developing a detailed understanding of the key regulatory regimes governing the management of liquidity risk and how that has been applied at ANZ.
• Managing the reporting and analytics suite to provide daily oversight and reporting of ANZ’s liquidity and funding risk. This is to ensure that the liquidity exposures are compliant with the regulatory requirements, bank’s risk appetite, and agreed limit framework.
• Conducting gap analyses of liquidity risk management practices against supervisory guidance and performing independent assessments of the bank’s liquidity risk management processes.
• Proactively identifying changes in the bank’s liquidity position and calling out any emerging trends.
• Building strong working relationships with Treasury and NZ Markets staff to balance Risk objectives with the bank’s liquidity and funding risk strategy, and ensure all initiatives undertaken are aligned with risk and compliance principals and polices.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

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

• 7 years’ experience working with banking models (market risk, treasury, or credit), either in a governance, development or validation capacity. Applicants with a strong data background, and an interest in financial markets may be suitable.
• Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills (experience in one or more of SAS, python, VBA, SQL and tableau preferred).
• Experience in a first or second-line risk function with a track record of peer reviewing and challenging modelling assumptions and interpretations.
• Knowledge of bank balance sheets, financial instruments, and their impact on bank liquidity.
• Experience and understanding of current regulatory standards for liquidity risk (RBNZ and APRA).
• Accurate reporting of compliance with internal and regulatory liquidity and funding risk metrics, in line with RBNZ and APRA requirements.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing and mentoring a team to achieve their best performance.

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.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you’ll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where 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 community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We’re a diverse community 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 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 Aotearoa New Zealand‘s communities. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to

better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce. 

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. 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 an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit www.anz.co.nz/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 87601. 

Job Posting End Date

Tuesday 25th February 11.59pm