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 the leader of the Operational Risk and Compliance (OR&C) team for the Markets business, you will provide robust compliance and regulatory advice to the Markets teams globally, ensuring effective review and challenge and oversight. Your expertise will be crucial in advising on compliance, regulatory, and conduct risk, and in strengthening Market’s risk maturity levels through proactive review, challenge, and strategic advice.

You will foster strong working relationships with senior business stakeholders, including the Global Head of Markets, Risk and Desk Risk Managers (DRMs), Business Governance and Controls (BG&C), and Internal Audit partners. Your participation in business risk and governance forums will be crucial, as you provide clear insights on the adequacy and maturity of compliance management and offer strategic advice on regulatory changes and risk management.

As a senior member of the Institutional OR&C team, your leadership and collaboration skills will be vital in driving and supporting initiatives across ANZ, beyond your direct area of responsibility.

This role is a designated Material Risk Person (MRP) under the MAS Guidelines on Individual Accountability and Conduct (GIAC) and will assist the Senior Manager (SM) accountable for the Core Management Functions of Chief Risk Officer, Head of Compliance and Head of Financial Crime Prevention for the ANZ Singapore Branch. This MRP role is responsible for timely escalation to SMs to assist SM’s in discharging their accountabilities.

Role Location: Singapore
Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

What will your day look like?

Your key accountabilities in this role will include:

• Provide accurate and ethical compliance and regulatory advice, recommendations, and thought leadership to address the needs of the Markets business globally.

• Manage the execution of deep dive reviews for portfolios, ensuring thematic insights are provided to drive business compliance and risk maturity uplift.

• Provide strong leadership to the Markets Op Risk and Compliance team across international locations, including Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. This includes overseeing staff development and enhancing their capabilities.

• Be a strong people leader and culture carrier for the Markets business and Institutional OR&C function by displaying and encouraging behaviours essential to the delivery of a strong risk culture.

• Lead engagement with regulators across multiple jurisdictions, including Australia and Singapore, and manage regulatory submissions, responses, investigations, and presentations.

• Work with the OR&C team and the Markets business on the integration and embedding of the ANZ I.AM framework.

• Attend relevant business risk and governance forums, steering committee meetings, and other meetings as required, delivering clear opinions and required actions to improve risk management.

• Collaborate with and influence other Institutional Division and Enterprise Operational Risk and Compliance teams and develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key internal stakeholders to drive a proactive, consistent, and coordinated approach to non-financial risk management within Markets and across Institutional Division and Enterprise Risk.

What will you bring?

To excel in this role, you’ll ideally bring:

• Extensive experience in global Markets compliance, with deep expertise in G20 compliance and a thorough understanding of Fixed Income Trading activities.

• A background in complex, highly regulated financial institutions, with robust technical and industry networks both internally and externally.

• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate change effectively with senior business stakeholders.

• Proven leadership experience, enabling you to develop a highly engaged and motivated team while fostering a healthy working culture.

• A commitment to creating a safe and supportive work environment, where individuals are inspired and motivated to grow, thrive, and deliver value.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, positioning you as a strong role model and culture carrier.

• The ability to identify and execute training opportunities, enhancing the capability, productivity, and performance of yourself, the global Markets Compliance team, and the global Markets business.

• Track record in managing, leading and inspiring teams.

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 92179.

Job Posting End Date

17/04/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)