Operational Risk Associate

**Req ID**: 69315
**Department**: Business Governance & Assurance
**Division**: Australia Commercial
**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 an Operational Risk Associate in the Non-Financial Risk Team, you'll play a key role in helping Australia Commercial in the Delivery of operational risk and governance uplift.

In conjunction with the Divisional Assurance Oversight Lead, this role is responsible for supporting:
Delivery of operational risk and governance uplift across Australia Commercial
Development and execution of treatment plans across Australia Commercial
Assistance in creating reporting for risk management forums for Commercial Strategic Delivery as well as reporting for Commercial Risk Day as required
Non-Financial risk adoption and ongoing day 2 activities
Monitoring of risks and governance for Commercial Strategic Delivery
Embedding and supporting divisional risk management processes to increase the risk maturity and culture within Australia Commercial

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/ Brisbane/ Sydney/ Perth/ Adelaide, VIC

**Role Type**: Permanent / Full time

What will your day look like?

**As an Operational Risk Associate, you will**:
Providing support to Australia Commercial Risk Owners by engaging with the respective businesses, and the broader Operational Risk and Compliance teams across Australia Commercial in relation to Operational Risk and Compliance matters and completing engagement and calibration with Retail and Institutional.
Collaboration with the different businesses within Australia Commercial, Assurance, Operational Risk and Compliance teams in relation to monitoring operating risk and compliance key risks.
Assisting with the design and embedding of business process and controls to effectively manage and address operational risks and key compliance matters.
Assisting in engagement with other areas in relation to completing regulatory attestations, including Australia Retail, Operational Risk and Compliance and Group.
Supporting the development and execution of risk issues across Australia Commercial and supporting, where necessary, risk issues across the different Business Units within Commercial.
Developing appropriate frameworks and execute plans to ensure regulatory requirements are met and Non-Financial risk is managed consistently.
Delivery of elements of the Non-Financial Risk Transformation program and related activities.
Actively raise process improvement ideas to ensure processes and procedures are clear and focus on eliminating operational/reputational risks and financial risks for the customer.
Provide SME support to change management, process and project initiatives.
What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
**Influencing**: The ability to gain the commitment of others through a range of techniques.
**Relationship building**: The ability to build and nurture relationships, both internally and externally, to maintain and foster mutually trusting and empathetic connections.
**Governance**: Providing governance expertise to support the effective operation of a team, function, project or entity. This includes developing and implementing governance frameworks (including rules, relationships, systems and processes) to assist with the proper exercise and control of authority.
**Critical thinking**: The ability to use logic and reasoning to analyse, evaluate and synthesize a range of information to understand an opportunity or challenge.
**Planning and Prioritisation**: Planning and prioritising what needs to be done (including people, process and technology implications) in order to deliver upon customer/user needs and strategic priorities. This includes identifying, planning for, tracking and resolving dependencies.
**Risk Management**: A logical and pragmatic method of establishing the context, identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and/or communicating risks associated with any activity, function or process in a way that will enable the organisation to minimise losses and maximize opportunities.

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