Risk management careers
Risk management careers
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Help New Zealand’s biggest bank deliver sustainable solutions for customers and communities across the globe.
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Improve financial wellbeing of millions of customers
We’re not just New Zealand’s largest bank, we’re the bank with the biggest scale and reach, working with teams globally across 39 geographies. Our expert team uses the risk disciplines and the three lines of defense model to help anticipate and navigate ANZ through a changing environment.
Our risk team is made up of talented individuals with broad experience; our employees come from diverse backgrounds, many joining our offices in Auckland and Wellington after working in Manila, London, America, India, Singapore and the Pacific. Our diversity and global reach is what makes us successful.
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Financial crime
Our financial crime team helps to protect our customers, communities and ANZ from the harmful effects of financial crime. We do this by supporting our businesses in understanding and mitigating financial crime risks and threats.
We work in a collaborative and innovative environment where we invest in our people and strive to build a future-ready team of financial crime specialists, fostering a strong learning culture to remain well-informed and enabled to swiftly identify and escalate financial crime threats.
Risk metrics and measurement
Risk metrics and measurement is tasked with developing advanced analytical techniques to quantify and predict risk
in ANZ.
This is a data intensive and solution-focused team operating at the forefront of analytics. The function supports our frontline and enablement teams to deliver on their strategy by providing risk measurement capabilities to make the right decisions for the customer, ANZ and New Zealand.
Credit risk
Our credit risk team partners with the business to set, monitor, and adjust credit policy and risk appetite settings to ensure great outcomes for ANZ, our staff and customers. This includes oversight of credit risk management, implementing risk frameworks and portfolio analysis to ensure the performance of the portfolio is fully understood and changes to risk settings are made in a dynamic environment. Additionally, credit risk undertake credit assessment and decision-making with the business at both a customer and portfolio level.
Operational risk and compliance
Operational risk and compliance is part of the second line of defence providing independent oversight and frameworks for the bank's non-financial risks. These risks are inherent in running a large, complex financial services organisation, and include risks associated with data management, financial crime, regulatory compliance, fraud, and technology amongst others.
The operational risk and compliance team supports our frontline and enablement teams to deliver on their strategy by providing independent oversight of their approach to non-financial risk management.
Market risk and treasury risk
Market risk is responsible for ensuring market risk exposures managed by the markets business are within approved risk appetite and policy frameworks. The team also provides independent oversight of the market risk positions of the bank.
Treasury risk is responsible for ensuring treasury manages ANZ’s funding and liquidity positions within the approved risk appetite and policy frameworks. The treasury risk team provides independent oversight and compliance monitoring of ANZ’s liquidity and funding risk positions, including approving transaction requests.
Reasons to choose ANZ
Great career pathways
Gain exposure, leverage your experience and drive your career forward working with the most senior levels of the bank.
Broaden your remit at New Zealand’s biggest bank
We might not be small. But we know how to do cosy. Experience a people-first culture that supports its people with meaningful career pathways, networks and training.
Work with great leaders
Work with strong leaders who provide one-on-one support to guide you on projects and mentor you through your career.
Hear from some of our people
Corrina – Financial Crime, Governance and Oversight Lead, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington
“The evolving and dynamic nature of financial crime provides me with a career where I am constantly engaged and challenged. I get to work with a leading team of financial crime experts to disrupt criminals and protect our communities.”
Jacob – Regulatory Affairs Manager, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
“ANZ has given me an incredible opportunity to use my experience and skills gained from practicing law to springboard myself into a major bank’s key risk functions. I also have the flexibility and support to continue pursuing my career with the NZ Black Sticks Men’s hockey team, allowing me the space and balance to thrive in the office and on the hockey field at major sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games and upcoming Hockey World Cup.”
Melissa – Manager Regulatory Capital, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington
“Having started as a graduate in ANZ Risk and recently returning after having a family, ANZ has provided me an opportunity to use my analytical background as an engineer to delve into the bank’s data and find areas to improve data integrity, process efficiencies and output reporting.
I love being able to assist the frontline businesses in providing insights into their customer data and the impact on the bank’s credit risk metrics.“
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