Senior Audit Lead - People and Risk Culture

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.

ANZ Internal Audit’s 2030 ambition is to be the leading audit function and the Bank’s trusted independent voice. We contribute to ANZ’s Group 2030 Strategy through providing the strength and perspective required for ANZ to lead the industry in trust, safety and risk management, adhering to the highest standards of non-financial risk management.

About the Role

The Senior Audit Lead – People & Risk Culture leads complex, Risk Culture-focused reviews, applying a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to deliver specialist assurance and actionable insight to senior business stakeholders and the Board.

Reporting to the Audit Director – People & Risk Culture, the role contributes evidence-based assessments of governance, behavioural drivers of risk and control effectiveness, while supporting high-quality audit delivery across the Internal Audit plan, and in line with Internal Audit methodology and Global Internal Audit Standards.

The role works closely with audit teams and business stakeholders to deliver credible audit outcomes, provide specialist People Risk and Risk Culture insight, and support the building of Risk Culture capability across Internal Audit.

Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

Role Location: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

Work Hours: 40hours/week

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Audit Lead – People & Risk Culture, core accountabilities include:

• Lead complex engagements focused on assessing risk culture and behavioural risk, delivering independent third-line assurance aligned to the approved Internal Audit plan.
• Manage audit delivery to agreed timelines and budgets, ensuring disciplined execution, productive use of resources, timely escalation of delivery risks, and strong issue follow-up and validation readiness.
• Contribute to annual and ongoing audit planning for the People & Risk Culture portfolio, providing informed input on emerging people risks, risk culture themes, regulatory expectations and coverage priorities.
• Support the development of Risk Culture and behavioural risk capabilities across the Internal Audit function.
• Provide specialist Risk Culture and People Risk judgement to support audit delivery across Internal Audit engagements, contributing insight on behavioural drivers of risk, leadership practices and people-related controls where material.
• Apply sound risk judgement and strong methodology discipline, ensuring work demonstrates clear understanding of key risks and conformance with Internal Audit methodology and Global Internal Audit Standards.
• Apply a data enabled audit mindset, using data, insights and structured evidence to support assessment of people and culture risks, and to enhance audit quality and efficiency.
• Lead engagement with business stakeholders throughout audit delivery, maintaining effective working relationships and escalating matters requiring judgement or direction appropriately.
• Ensure audit findings and recommendations are value adding, timely and credible, and clearly linked to behaviours, governance, risk culture and control effectiveness.
• Lead, coach and develop audit team members and foster a strong speak-up culture, role modelling challenge, integrity, independence and sound professional judgement.

What will you bring?

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

• Risk Culture capability: Deep, demonstrated expertise in assessing behavioural risk and risk culture, including governance, behavioural drivers, leadership practices, incentives and people-related controls.
• Track record of engagement delivery: Demonstrated delivery of medium to high complexity audits or workstreams with high-quality, defensible outcomes.
• Stakeholder engagement: Strong ability to engage senior stakeholders, communicate audit conclusions clearly, and manage challenge or disagreement constructively.
• Conduct, regulatory and fraud risk capability: Capability in assessing conduct and compliance risks, including how behavioural drivers contribute to misconduct, control failures and fraud risk.
• Internal audit expertise: Understanding of Internal Audit methodology, evidence standards, reporting and issue validation, applied to medium to high complexity audits and judgement led assurance activity.
• Data enabled assurance: Practical experience using data and analytics to strengthen audit scoping, testing, insight and conclusions, including in assessments of people risks and risk culture.
• Leadership and culture: Experience leading or supporting teams and contributing to a strong speak-up and risk-aware culture.
• Good to have: Exposure to assurance, risk or control environments within large, regulated organisations; or experience contributing to judgement-led reviews, change activity or complex stakeholder environments.
• Qualifications: Study in organisational behaviour, behavioural science, leadership or risk management is desirable. Professional qualifications such as CIA, CA or CPA are advantageous.

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 123116 .
 

Job Posting End Date

28/09/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)