Product Owner

**Req ID**: 69164
**Department**: Tech BS LSM
**Division**: Technology
**Location**: Melbourne
About Us

About the Role

As a Product Owner in our Lending Securities as a Service team, you'll play a key role in helping to deliver services and an enterprise-wide platform to manage Collateral Securities across the ANZ enterprise. Our team is seeking an experienced Product Owner who will be responsible for driving the planning, execution, and successful completion of key strategic initiatives.

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**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008

**Role Type**: Permanent, Full-time

What will your day look like?

Whilst this role is not a people manager, you will play a pivotal role in aligning cross-functional teams, co-ordinating resources, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality results within specified timelines. This position requires exceptional leadership, project management, and communication skills to effectively coordinate efforts and achieve key objectives. This will include:
Provide strong leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and a shared sense of purpose towards achieving initiative goals.
Oversee all aspects of initiative execution, including task delegation, progress tracking, risk management, and issue resolution, to ensure milestones are met and deliverables are of high quality.
Ensure alignment of initiative outcomes to LSaaS, Business Services and ANZ strategic goals
Establish and maintain effective communication channels with internal and external stakeholders, including executives, team members, clients, and partners, to keep them informed of initiative progress, solicit feedback, and address concerns.
Identify opportunities for process optimization, efficiency gains, and best practice implementation to enhance initiative delivery capabilities and drive continuous improvement across the organization.
What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
**Experienced Program/Project manager**: You are a seasoned Program or Project Manager with extensive delivery experience in successfully implementing complex enterprise wide projects/programs
Extensive knowledge and understanding of financial/bank lending products and processes, specifically related to collateral securities and credit risk management (retail and wholesale)
Exceptional people skills with proven experience in mobilising resources across multifunctional teams across technology and business, as well as demonstrated skills in managing and influencing of stakeholders at senior and executive levels
Expertise in leading end to end delivery and performing analysis and definition of business requirements, conducted impact assessments, communicating change impacts to stakeholders and supported in the end-to-end journey of implementing the change.
Demonstrate commercial acumen, analytical skills and data-driven decision making.

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.