Initiative lead

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

Risk Metrics & Measurement Services Transformation is a newly established multi-year cloud adoption program that will transform the data, credit risk models and systems that calculate our Stress Testing, Credit Provisions and Credit Risk Weighted Assets Metrics.

Reporting to the Program Director, the Stress Testing – Initiative Lead will bring extensive delivery, transformation and vendor management experience on large scale programs in the Banking domain, to lead the development and implementation of a new Stress Testing Solution. Accountabilities include:

• Challenge the status quo to deliver Transformational outcomes.
• Lead 'end to end' delivery of system implementations through the SDLC in a complex, dynamic and regulatory environment and deliver at pace.
• Navigate a complex transition pathway to the future state, including interim 'tactical' states that safely deliver benefits whilst also preserving critical business regulatory reporting processes and reconciliations.

Role Location: 833 Collins Street Docklands VIC 3008

Work Hours: 40 hours per week

What Will Your Day Look Like?

• Work with the Vendor, Technology Teams and Business SMEs to lead the Stress Testing Solution design, build and deployment activities.
• Establish and lead a team of Business Analysts to document and manage a complex suite of business requirements across multiple stakeholder groups, ensuring the delivered solution meets regulatory and business needs and transformational outcomes are aligned to benefits.
• Establish efficient and fit for purpose Agile delivery processes to develop and manage the integrated delivery plan, with effective status reporting - ensuring the critical path is clearly defined, activities are well coordinated and optimised delivery pace.  
• Work effectively across the Program's enablement streams and understand interdependencies eg Design the future state processes with strong governance and controls, traceability of requirements to regulatory obligations, change management stream, data migration stream, credit risk model rebuilds and metric calculations.
• Chair working groups to resolve solution design issues, effectively manage scope, prioritise multiple requirements and identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies.
• Produce meaningful status reporting for steering committees.
• Ensure adherence to ANZ's Non-Financial Risk (NFR) framework and delivery framework (ADF).

What Will You Bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you'll ideally bring the following:

• Program Delivery Extensive 'hands on' experience (10+ years) planning and leading 'end to end' delivery of systems implementations through the SDLC in a complex, dynamic and regulatory environment. This includes delivery under both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, adapting your approach to best meet the environment, and proficiency in project delivery tools eg JIRA, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, confluence and collaboration tools.
• Vendor management: Proven experience in managing system vendors to deliver complex outcomes across large-scale banking programs.
• Team Building & Leadership: Proven experience in building and managing project delivery teams to deliver at pace and providing coaching to upskill SMEs to adopt Agile Delivery practices.
• Domain knowledge in either Credit Risk, Treasury, Finance or Regulatory Reporting across data, credit risk models and metrics.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to negotiate aligned outcomes and work across multiple streams. Clearly and simply represent findings and effectively communicate progress to Executive stakeholders.
• Leadership: Adept at envisioning and communicating a compelling and future-oriented vision to impacted teams. Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate others, consistent with ANZ values, New Ways of Leading and Growth Mindset.
• Strategic thinking: Takes a broad perspective in understanding impacts, thinks of the end user and looks for opportunities when solving complex problems and recommending solutions. Ability to work methodically through large volumes of information and distil into workable packages.

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.

Your Career at ANZ

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

We work flexibly at ANZ and encourage you to talk to us about how this role can be flexible for you and any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.