Governance 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 Lending Securities as a Service (LSaaS) is a business service for Collateral Management across ANZ. Reporting to the LSaaS Initiative Lead, we are seeking a Governance Lead to provide strategic leadership and oversight for governance of the LSaaS enterprise service. This role is accountable for establishing and embedding a robust governance framework that ensures compliance, manages risk, and enables transparent, effective decision-making across the entire service lifecycle. By setting governance standards and ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and regulatory obligations, the Governance Lead plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity and resilience of the LSaaS platform. Role Type: Fixed-TermRole Location: Melbourne What will your day look like? As a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, the LSaaS Governance Lead influences strategic priorities, facilitates executive governance forums, and ensures decisions are well-informed and traceable. The role drives continuous improvement in governance practices, leveraging data-driven insights and process excellence to enhance efficiency, agility, and compliance and will be responsible for: LSaaS Governance Framework Leadership: Define and maintain the LSaaS governance framework, including RACI, escalation paths, and decision-making models. Align governance practices with LSaaS strategy, regulatory obligations, and enterprise risk appetite. Executive Forum Leadership: Oversee LSaaS governance forums (e.g., LDG, LBRC), ensuring agendas drive strategic outcomes. Audit & Regulatory Assurance: Ensure LSaaS governance documentation meets internal and external audit standards, and act as senior liaison with compliance, assurance, and risk teams for LSaaS-related obligations. Policy & Compliance Oversight: Validate LSaaS compliance with governance policies before approvals and sign-offs, and monitor adherence across LSaaS delivery and elevate non‑compliance to executive leadership. Decision & Risk Management: Maintain authoritative records of LSaaS decisions, approvals, and escalations for transparency and traceability. Provide governance advice to executives on LSaaS-related risk trade‑offs and prioritisation. Continuous Governance Improvement: Lead reviews of LSaaS governance processes to enhance efficiency, agility, and compliance. What will you bring? To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following: Proven track record in designing, implementing, and managing governance frameworks for complex enterprise services. Demonstrated ability to shape decision-making processes and influence strategic outcomes. Strong capability in process excellence, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency. Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills to address governance and compliance challenges. Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate across all organisational levels. Extensive experience engaging senior stakeholders and facilitating executive governance forums. Deep understanding of risk management principles, regulatory obligations, and governance best practices. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex governance information clearly to executive audiences. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr