Business SME, Obligations Management

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 The Obligations Manager plays a strategic leadership role in shaping and overseeing the enterprise-wide framework for regulatory obligations management. Reporting to the Group Head of RegulatoryRisk and Relations, this role ensures the completeness, accuracy, and traceability of compliance obligations across the organisation. It drives the development and continuous improvement of the obligations operating model, library, and associated governance processes, while fostering strong cross-functional collaboration to embed ownership and accountability. The role also provides expert guidance to senior stakeholders across the bank, ensuring obligations are effectively managed in alignment with regulatory expectations and ANZ’s risk appetite. 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 Type: Permanent, Full-TimeRole Location: Docklands VICWork Hours: Standard Hours What will your day look like? As a Business SME, Obligations Management: Lead the development and implementation of ANZ’s obligations management operating model, policies, and standards. Oversee the governance and maintenance of the obligations library, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and traceability to controls and value chains. Drive enterprise-wide alignment on ownership and accountability of regulatory obligations. Stakeholder Engagement Provide expert guidance and strategic advice to senior stakeholders across ANZ's Business, including multi-geographic locations. Maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and auditors. Represent the obligations function in governance forums where required. Operational Excellence Ensure timely identification, classification, and recording of regulatory obligations. Lead initiatives to improve data quality, reporting, and automation in obligations management. Monitor and enhance processes to deliver efficiency and effectiveness in obligations oversight. Risk & Compliance Culture Promote a strong compliance and risk culture across the organisation. Ensure obligations management practices align with ANZ’s Code of Conduct and regulatory expectations. Contribute to the uplift of enterprise controls and continuous improvement initiatives. What will you bring? To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following: Highly experienced in compliance, legal, regulatory risk, or operational risk. Proven expertise in obligations management, regulatory frameworks, and control environments. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience in presenting to executive audiences. High attention to detail and analytical capability to support data-driven decision-making. Experience in designing and implementing governance frameworks and process improvements. 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'. also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more. At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods. To find out more about working at ANZ, visit You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number . Job Posting End Date 30 November, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia) #J-18808-Ljbffr