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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

One of Vanguard's Enterprise Risk Management crew, working in a 2nd Line Risk capacity for Vanguard Investments Australia (VIA).The role has many facets, including:- promoting, championing, and enhancing Vanguard's risk management framework;- oversighting, reviewing, and challenging of Vanguard established businesses and practices; and- partnering, coaching, and guiding Vanguard crew with respect to risk management of Vanguard's new ventures, programs and new ways of working.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Initially seconded in an operational risk advisory capacity, I was subsequently appointed as the Edison Program’s project delivery/management lead, reporting directly to ANZ Wealth's Chief Risk Officer (CRO).The Edison Program’s goal was to divest various ANZ Wealth Financial Planning, Insurance, Pensions, Investments and the OnePath Superannuation businesses to (1) IOOF Holdings (now Insignia Financial), (2) Zurich Australia, (3) ANZ Australia Retail & Commercial while (4) restructuring the retained Wealth Division businesses 2nd Line risk function in support of post-divestiture service delivery. Risk and Compliance considerations and requirements featured throughout. The role required coordinating the planning and execution of an adaptive, Agile, synchronised change and delivery program to address a multitude of program, people, commercial and compliance challenges, leveraging my extensive technical, commercial and interpersonal skills.Leading multiple streams of work (including regulatory engagement, risk profiling/assessment, AML/CTF & ETS, BCP/BCM and FATCA/CRS) while navigating ANZ’s regulatory obligations, commercial interests and obligations (including Transitional Services Agreements (TSAs) and negotiating with two external organisations has been a professionally challenging and satisfying experience. Striking a balance between delivery and facilitation whilst actively motivating and fostering collaborative team dynamics was a source of immense satisfaction and personal growth.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Working as part of a newly formed, multi-disciplined Team charged with delivering operational and compliance risk information and insight to internal stakeholders.The role's focus was to first establish the necessary work practices and infrastructure to leverage ANZ’s multitude of risk data sources, and then deliver valued information back to the organization, driving data-driven, business risk-related management decision and actions.In addition to fostering new working relationships within ANZ's business, risk and technology partners, this role required a considered and compliant approach to data collation, retention and publication; necessitating information risk assessments and adaptation of ANZ’s internal control and business intelligence tool (e.g., Qlik) environments. Much of the related change was implemented using ANZ’s new scaled agile approach to work, with the focus identifying a backlog of value-adding features then rapidly delivering those value-adding features back to customers over a series of time-bound sprints.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Accountable for the promotion and enhancement of ANZ's GRC platform (aka COR) and the further evolution of ANZ's Operational Risk Measurement and Management Framework (ORMMF).Responsibilities include specialist risk consulting, tool, process and task-related training development and delivery, the design and delivery of a phased program of system and Policy/procedural enhancements to enhance user experience and evolve the effectiveness of ANZ's risk management practices. This role necessitates establishing and maintaining close working relationships with all 5 ANZ Divisions (Australia, Institutional, Wealth, GTSO and New Zealand), specialist functions (for example Group Internal Investigations, Regulatory Relations) and Risk Framework Owners (Operational, Compliance and IT).

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

One of a team charged with the design and delivery of ANZ's enterprise-wide GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) 'COR' (Compliance & Operational Risk) platform. Responsibilities include the articulation and realisation of risk-related requirements whilst working through the design, configuration and implementation of IBM's OpenPages platform in support of ANZ's existing risk management frameworks.Accountable for the delivery of three integrated streams of work, namely: (i) ORM (Operational Risk Management) change (e.g., data migration, business change assessment, planning and management); (ii) Event Management (replacing ANZ's current Internal Loss & Incident Management systems and enabling integration with External Loss data sources); and (iii) PCM (Policy & Compliance Management) including of Regulatory Interaction and Regulatory Change components.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Two broad functions:Assisting ANZ Australia Division Business Unit's design, develop and implement effective Risk Management planning and supporting programs e.g., Control Testing & Monitoring, Internal Loss and Incident Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Register maintenance.Enabling ANZ Australia Division's stakeholders to identify their key Risks and then design, develop and implement programs to provide assurance regarding risk management effectiveness by various parties including the Australia Division, the Division's Business Units/Lines of Business and other parties within the broader ANZ Group.Australia Division Business Units have Retail Distribution, Commercial Banking, Wealth, Australia Operations and Products, Strategy & Marketing.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Acting in a hybrid 1st/2nd Line of Defense risk role with Australia Division Business Units (e.g., Wealth, Retail, Commercial) to optimise their risk management activities (primarily aligned to Internal Control Testing, Monitoring and Treatment) while also fulfilling an oversight function of the Compliance Risk Management Framework's application for Divisional stakeholders.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Coordinating the assessment and subsequent enhancement of Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) related compliance risk Controls within ANZ's Australia Division.ANZ Australia Division is comprised of over 10,000 staff distributed across:* Three 'Front-line' customer-facing Business Units i.e. Retail Distribution (e.g., Branches, Mortgages, Online Banking), Commercial Banking (e.g., Relationship Banking, Agribusiness and Esanda), Wealth (e.g., Private Bank, Financial Planning);* Internal support businesses including Australia Operations (with both domestic and off-shore assets); and* Various Divisional functions including Risk, Finance and Human Resouces.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Delivered a comprehensive assessment of Economic & Trade Sanctions-related compliance risk Controls within ANZ's Australia Division. This assessment was a component of ANZ's 'review' submission with respect to the OFAC (MUL-464334) settlement Key achievements in this regard included:* Devised, developed, administered and created a sustainable off-shore, compliance risk testing function for the Commercial Banking Business Unit, utilising Six Sigma/DFSS principles pertaining to data sampling and analysis whilst leveraging/enhancing existing infrastructure (inclusive of both Policy and Technology).* Coordinated the testing and subsequent reported on the effectiveness of the full suite of Sanctions Controls employed by Australia Division including Product, Employee, Sales/Customer (KYC) and Supplier Management.* Championed and facilitated the establishment of internal Executive Committees, Working Groups etc to ensure appropriate organisational 'risk' focus and agenda - providing the catalyst for a variety of Divisional and Business Unit treatment and remedial initiatives.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Explored options to extend ANZ Commercial Banking's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) capabilities. Formalised both the Project Concept and Business Case, conducted requirement gathering workshops that feed into System Design Specifications, performed solution alternative and competitive environment evaluations then delivered solution recommendations including the documentation of a comprehensive Business Requirements (BRD) to the Project's sponsors.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

This role had two primary functions:1. Managing ANZ Business Banking's PMO function; and2. Business Owner of various in-house applications.The PMO function required both the provision of guidance to Projects with respect to governance and other related areas as well as conducting independent 'Project Health Checks' for Business Banking Project sponsors in an effort to identify and remedy project-related risks and issues.As the Owner of a variety of Business Banking-related applications (primarily transactional and credit management) I ran a series of application user forums, collated, prioritised and commissioned change/enhancement activities and conducted regular application risk mitigation-styled activities including disaster recovery rehearsals.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

The senior in-house operations consultant to ANZ's Industry Specialisation ventures including Commercial Origination (Commercial Brokers), Franchising, Asset Finance (Leasing) and Invoice Finance.The role included the performance and coordination of ad-hoc business analysis, internal stakeholder management, internal operational and credit risk reporting and operational support and Project Management/delivery (particularly with respect to Technology)

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Internal consultant-type function servicing the Bank's Industry Specialisation division. Role primarily focuses on internal stakeholder management, internal reporting and pre- and on-going operational support for specialist ANZ business ventures including Commercial Origniation (Brokers), Franchising and Pharmacies.

Business analysis and commercial negotiation (both contractual and business operations) for various blue chip private and public entities. Specialising in outsourcing (IT focus) and project management.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

The implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had a broad range of impacts on National Australia Bank's (NAB's) Global Leasing and Asset Finance (Hire Purchase etc) division and the many consumer and commercial customers.I was required to develop the Project's business Case, collated business and regulatory/legislative (tax) requirements, work with a multi-disciplined Team to generated anIT system solution design and coordinated the execution of an iterative solution development processes inclusive the full suite of data analysis and test cycles.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Managed a team of 12 impaired credit officers responsible for collection-related activities of NAB Leasing customers. A significant portion of my time was devoted to personnel management and coaching and I personally was involved in complex and protracted restructures and recovery situations.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Acted as a commercial leasing credit analyst and was required to regularly liaise with Commercial Leasing Brokers and their clients, structure and assess the viability of leasing facilities and conduct reviews of client and broker portfolios.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Supported a Business Relationship Manager in all aspects of running a customer relationship set including marketing calls, credit assessments and ongoing customer service-related activities.

Certificate, Tools Of Innovation: A Hands On Dive Into Design Thinking

Certificate Iv In Project Management, Project Management

Bach. Of Banking And Finance, Economics, Finance, Marketing

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