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 a Senior Project Lead, Operational Risk, you will play a key role in the Business & Private Bank (B&PB) Operational Risk & Resilience Centre of Excellence, acting as an embedded Line 1B risk assurance partner across strategic initiatives.

You will provide independent review, challenge, and advisory to operational risk and resilience across strategic projects e.g. Single Customer Front End (SCFE), ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and managed throughout the change lifecycle and ensuring alignment with risk appetite, frameworks, and regulatory obligations.

The role focuses on providing proactive risk guidance, robust challenge, and assurance over change requirements, risk assessments, control design, and governance in delivery.

You will work closely with delivery teams to uplift risk capability and ensure consistent application of risk frameworks, provide challenge and escalation where frameworks are not operating effectively, and deliver data-driven insights to support informed, risk-aware decision-making.

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: 12 Month Secondment / Fixed-term Contract
Role Location: Melbourne or Brisbane
Work Hours: Full-time

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Project Lead, Operational Risk (Line 1B), you will:

• Translate risk policies and regulatory obligations into clear guidance and provide advisory on their application within strategic initiatives
• Review and challenge business requirements and solution design to identify operational risk impacts early in the change lifecycle
• Provide guidance on risk-in-change approaches, including governance, control design, and risk treatment strategies
• Provide independent review and challenge over governance, risk management practices, and control effectiveness
• Ensure regulatory obligations and internal frameworks are appropriately considered, interpreted, and embedded within change initiatives
• Identify, challenge, and escalate gaps in risk frameworks, risk assessments (e.g. NFRAs), processes, or controls, and track remediation actions
• Escalate material risk issues and non-compliance in line with governance expectations
• Provide data-driven insights and thematic analysis on risk in change to support informed, risk-aware decision-making
• Review and challenge risk assessments (e.g. NFRAs) to ensure completeness, consistency, and appropriate calibration of risk
• Assess control design and implementation to ensure controls are effective, sustainable, and aligned to policy and regulatory expectations
• Provide independent oversight of governance forums, decision-making, and risk acceptance
• Support uplift of risk capability within delivery teams

What will you bring?

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

• Line 1B risk advisory, assurance, or oversight experience, applied within change or strategic initiatives
• Strong understanding of risk-in-change governance, lifecycle controls, and decision points
• Proven ability to review and challenge risk frameworks, assessments (e.g. NFRAs), and control design
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical, business-aligned solutions
• Strong analytical capability, with a focus on insight generation and risk-informed decision-making
• Confidence providing independent challenge and influencing stakeholders to drive sound risk 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 118626 .
 

Job Posting End Date

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