Senior Manager – Operational Risk COE
ANZ
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Melbourne • Australia
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About the role
- Translate and apply the Group Risk Appetite Statement and policies within the division, providing expert guidance on Operational Risk obligations, applicability, and materiality.
- Lead top-down risk identification and assessment across Operational Risk themes, leveraging analytics and automation to surface indicators, trends, and emerging risks.
- Establish robust approaches for identifying material service providers, maintaining registers, due diligence, formal agreements, monitoring, reporting and orderly exit planning.
- Oversee impact assessments and change delivery for regulatory and policy updates, partnering with the business to drive process improvements, control uplift, and remediation of high-risk activities.
- Manage governance and escalation processes, raising issues where frameworks or practices are not effectively supporting risk management.
- Collaborate with Group Risk, Line 2, and divisional peers to enable consistent, end-to-end Operational Risk management across boundaries.
- Promote a strong Line 1 accountability culture, ensuring leaders understand and execute their risk and control testing responsibilities.
- Lead and develop a team of specialists, setting clear expectations and building capability to deliver sustained uplift in risk management.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in risk management frameworks and regulatory obligations for Operational Risk NFR themes.
- Institutional banking experience.
- Strong ability to drive practical application of risk expertise into a business context, including being able to simply communicate the complex.
- Deep expertise in risk analytics, tooling and automation.
- Proven ability to evolve and embed risk frameworks in financial services environments.
- Proven ability to translate data and insights into practical risk mitigation strategies, incl. uplift initiatives.
- Deep understanding of controls design, assurance and testing.
- Proven ability to think strategically and take pragmatic approaches to accelerate effective and efficient execution of initiatives.
- Experience in advising senior leaders and risk committees on operational and regulatory issues.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to lead and develop high-performing teams through change and transformation.
Benefits
- access to health and wellbeing services
- discounts on selected products and services from ANZ
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
risk management frameworksregulatory obligationsrisk analyticscontrols designassurancetestingrisk mitigation strategiesdata insightsautomationprocess improvements
Soft skills
communicationstrategic thinkinginfluencingcross-functional collaborationteam leadershipcapability buildingpragmatic approachproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementchange management