Senior Project Manager

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 a Project Manager in our Team you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver changes required for the most significant reforms to Financial Crime & External Fraud risk in Australia by ensuring that project tasks, dependencies, and resources are aligned so the project progresses smoothly.

Role Type: Full-time Role Location: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008 Work Hours: 40 hours/week

What will your day look like?

A Project Manager is accountable for managing the delivery of a specific project/program. This role ensures that project tasks, dependencies, and resources are aligned so the project progresses smoothly. They manage day-to-day delivery activities, track progress, and escalate risks and issues when needed. Unlike the Program Director, who owns overall delivery outcomes and transformation, the Project Manager focuses on execution coordination within the defined scope.​

As a Project Manager, you are accountable for:

• The end-to-end management / delivery of a program / project.​

• Provide program / project team leadership, people management and capability development to optimise success.​

• Clearly define and communicate the project/program outcomes and how these link to the banks strategic objectives, ensuring the customer is at the centre.

• Build motivated teams and actively engaged stakeholders that are clear on how their work directly contributes to Project/program outcomes. ​

• Deliver the program / project, to agreed scope, objectives and associated Key Results and controls (i.e. to time, cost, quality, satisfaction and compliance as well as with active risk, issue, dependency and change control management) to maximise business acceptance and their realisation of benefits.​

• Establish and maintain effective and sustainable relationships with all key stakeholders to optimise delivery success.​

• Optimise change readiness to ensure all teams are aligned and implementation ready.​

• Support the Accountable Executive to inform the Steering Committee of Program / Project progress, key risks, dependencies, change impacts, escalate issues, financial performance, etc. as well as seek approval to changes and obtain feedback to inform decisions to key program / project matters.​

• Ensure adherence to and support the active application of the organisations Delivery Framework inclusive of governance, methods, templates, tools and quality assurance.​

• Accurately track and report performance and benefits (where appropriate).​

• Assure project quality​

• Actively communicate with key stakeholder groups to inform them of what the change is about, why it is important, delivery expectations, progress performance, key challenges, change readiness, etc.​

• Ensure program / project outputs and outcomes are effectively communicated and considered to effectively optimize the pursuit of its intended benefits and add value​

• Actively manage contracts / agreements in conjunction with procurement guidelines and policies.​

• Communicate delegation and decision-making rights.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

‘Must have’ knowledge, skills and experiences

• Demonstrable project management skills, with commensurate experience i.e. 5 years in project management

• Extensive understanding and experience in initiative delivery and governance principles, methods processes and techniques

• Delivery of projects to acceptable time, scope, budget & outcome expectations.

• Strong results focus, with a continuous improvement skill set.

• Creating and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders.

• Clarifying stakeholder needs and managing expectations to ensure the delivery of effective service

• Identifying and obtaining support or advice required for the planning, coordination and execution of work

• Reporting through agreed reporting lines on progress.

• Escalation of issues for resolution and decision making.

• Experience working within project costs, resources, scope and change request processes.

• Contributing to the sharing of knowledge and information within own function and with business units.

‘Good to have’ knowledge, skills and experiences

• Experience in financial crime, AML/CTF, scams, sanctions, regulatory reform or other high-risk transformation programs.

• Cross-Functional Coordination

• Transparent Communication

• Leading Without Direct Authority

• Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution

• Business Acumen - Risk & Cost Management

• Methodologies

• Experience in Financials Services

Capabilities

• Communication, collaboration, commitment, control, consistency, completion

• Leadership, and conflict resolution

• Project scoping, scheduling, budget control, and risk management

• Tool and methodology proficiency

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.

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 https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 123258 .

Job Posting End Date

23/09/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)