Risk Assessment

**Req ID**: 69056
**Department**: AR Business Controls and Compliance
**Division**: Australia Retail
**Location**: Melbourne
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 Risk Assessment & Control Design Specialist in our Retail Risk Strategy & Transformation team, you’ll play a key role in supporting Retail businesses to optimally manage their risk and control environment across end-to-end processes.

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**: Melbourne VIC
**Role Type**: Full time role, 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

What will your day look like?

**This role is accountable for**:
Working in a small squad to partner with the business and assurance team to undertake an end-to-end review of key customer and business processes, assessing risk and identifying opportunities to improve both the effectiveness and efficiency of the control environment

Undertake current state assessment of operational risk and compliance obligations, identifying and mapping controls (key controls and process-level controls) to effectively mitigate risk

Conduct a comprehensive risk review and analysis of end-to-end process, identifying improvement opportunities to optimise the control environment (including a focus on efficiency through automation, simplification and uplift)

Assess the alignment of existing controls with control objectives to determine control design uplift opportunities

Support the design, development and implementation of business controls (and other process efficiency uplift opportunities) aligned to design principles

Provide the business with tangible insights (including industry insights) and recommendations for consideration to improve effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of the end-to-end control environment

Provide insights, identify trends and make recommendations regarding risks and controls

Mature the risk management ecosystem, including proactively identifying internal/external influences.

Drive improvement in risk capability/culture/awareness and promote operational risk management as a core capability across businesses

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Hands-on experience in risk management or compliance

Deep experience across Finance and Banking preferably within Retail Banking

Self-driven leadership and team building skills

Courage and commitment to drive change and challenge the status quo

Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to build relationships through a collaborative approach

Project management skills, ability to manage priorities and conflicting issues in a professional/risk-based manner

Utilise analytical insights and data to identify opportunities to balance risk and help drive critical business decisions.

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

Governance experience in/from the Financial Services industry or from other large organisations

Experience and use of Agile delivery principles and practices using the Atlassian suite of products, JIRA, Confluence etc.

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.