Operational Risk

Operational Risk & Controls Governance Manager (Financial Markets)

Department: Insto Markets COO

Division: Institutional

Location: Sydney

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 Manager in our Regulatory Risk Management Team, you will play a key role in uplifting non-financial risk (NFR) controls and governance across the Financial Markets Regulations and Rulebooks risk theme. This includes a strong focus on enhancing regulatory operations and controls to ensure robust compliance and risk management.

You will work closely with control owners and operators to identify, document, and strengthen regulatory control coverage, particularly in relation to compliance approaches for trading venues and clearing houses. Your expertise will help shape a more resilient and transparent risk environment, contributing to the bank’s broader regulatory 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.

What will your day look like?

- Being a key driver of the uplift of controls and documentation associated with financial market venue and clearing house participation requirements and rulebooks, as well as more broadly, OTC derivative markets regulation.

- Identifying gaps and opportunities in existing regulatory controls and governance frameworks.

- Ensuring controls and approaches to compliance are documented in ANZ’s Non-Financial Risk hub.

- Assisting control teams to develop and maintain appropriate documentation to evidence compliance with relevant regulations and rulebooks, including policies and procedures.

- Ensuring stakeholder transparency on risks and issues, through the appropriate use and publishing of KRIs and other MIS.

- Collaborating with stakeholders across Financial Markets, Risk, and Compliance to ensure alignment and effective implementation of uplift activities.

- Providing subject matter expertise on regulatory risk management and controls uplift.

What will you bring?

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

- Proven experience in regulatory or operational risk management, controls uplift, and documentation within a financial services environment or proven experience in owning or operating control processes.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to navigate between compliance requirements and operational processes.

- Strong documentation skills, to identify what information is required for best-in‑class procedures and an ability to help control owners and operators to achieve that.

- Familiarity with financial markets, products and / or how a markets division operates.

- Proven ability to work across multiple operational, governance and compliance teams and stakeholders, both onshore and offshore.

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 105503.

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