Manager, Strategic Initiatives

**Req ID**: 92032
**Department**: Product Delivery
**Division**: Australia Commercial
**Location**: Docklands or 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 millions of customers.
About the Role
The Manager, Strategic Initiatives is accountable for supporting Credit Transformation across Lending Origination. This role is accountable for supporting all aspects of project delivery related to Credit Risk. Working closely with colleagues on the broader program, the role is pivotal in ensuring that Credit Risk systems are able to be seamlessly integrated within the end-to-end origination process with a view to uplifting both Customer and Banker experience.
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**: Permanent
**Role Location**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008 or 242 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
**Work Hours**: Full-time
What will your day look like?
As a Manager, Strategic Initiatives, you will have the opportunity to:
Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, other business units and key stakeholders in Commercial Australia and Credit Risk to ensure timely and effective implementation of Credit Risk platforms and services supporting Lending Origination.
Support the Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Change with the prioritisation of change activity, ensuring the successful adoption of Credit Decisioning Services and Models.
Support the Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Change with financial forecasts for project deliverables related to Credit Risk Infrastructure and Projects.
Support the development and implementation of Credit strategies and models that monitor financial risk indicators across the Commercial Lending portfolio.
Support the adoption of standardised delivery processes for integrating Credit Risk and Decision Infrastructure within the Wholesale Lending Origination program.
Promote and ensure adherence with the ANZ Delivery Framework for initiative implementation.
Demonstrate ANZ values, culture and new ways of leading, adapting behaviour to changing demands and fostering team and business unit collaboration.
Work with peers across Lending Transformation, Lend and Grow and the enterprise to foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing and growth within the Enterprise Delivery Community.
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Domain expertise of Credit related platforms and industry standards such as decision science, machine learning, model management and infrastructure.
Demonstrable track record of successfully delivering complex projects within Financial Services.
Ability to create all project related artefacts and presentations with mínimal direction including Business Requirements, Traceability Matrices, Test Cases and Scenarios, etc.
Proficient in the use of project tools, such as MS Project, Asana, Signavio, JIRA, Confluence, Xray, etc.
Experience in fostering strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring targeting communications based on strategic importance of the initiative to the individual Business needs.
Demonstrated ability to pivot ways of working to suit a dynamic environment with constantly changing priorities.
Experience across multiple project management methodologies and techniques, with the ability to select the appropriate framework for the problem/ domain.
Ability to actively listen, use judgement and make sound decisions.
Knowledge of lending lifecycle in a Commercial/Business Banking or Credit Transformation/Integration context.
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.
Job Posting End Date
21/04/2025, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)