Senior Lead, Control Testing

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 Senior Lead, Control Testing, you will contribute in strengthening first‑line control testing and QA capability, maturity, and consistency across the Corporate Enablement functions. You will provide delivery leadership at scale, ensuring testing is risk‑based, methodologically sound, well‑governed, and delivers meaningful insight into control effectiveness and non‑compliance. You will support the uplift and continuous improvement of control testing practices, translating enterprise risk standards into practical testing approaches, quality benchmarks, and reporting expectations. You also ensure that testing activity delivers clear, prioritised insights that enable effective escalation, informed decision‑making, and business‑owned remediation. Lastly, you will partner closely with peers, stakeholders and risk specialists to influence how risks and controls are understood and managed.

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 Location: Solaris One Building, 130 Dela Rosa St. Legaspi Village, Makati City  

Role Type: Permanent, full-time

Shift Schedule: Dayshift schedules will be adhered to

What will your day look like?

• Lead continuous improvement of control testing methodologies, standards, templates, and quality practices.


• Ensure consistent application of approved testing methodologies and tools across teams and portfolios.


• Define and maintain testing quality benchmarks, documentation requirements, and review practices.


• Drive enhancements to testing approaches, including data-driven techniques and automation, ensuring scalable and governed implementation.


• Oversee analysis and reporting of testing outcomes, providing clear insights on risk exposure, control effectiveness, and emerging themes.


• Ensure material control weaknesses, systemic issues, and compliance risks are identified, escalated, and reported through appropriate governance channels.


• Support governance reporting, assurance forums, and stakeholder engagement with high-quality insights and constructive challenge.


• Oversee remediation monitoring, challenging insufficient evidence and ensuring sustainable issue resolution.


• Deliver assurance activities to assess compliance with internal policies, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite requirements.


• Contribute to the development and delivery of assurance frameworks, deep dives, and operating practices aligned with industry’s best practices.


• Use subject matter expertise to identify control, process, and policy improvement opportunities that reduce risk and enhance efficiency.


• Act as a senior Control Testing representative, influencing stakeholders to strengthen control effectiveness, transparency, and accountability.


• Model strong risk culture through independence, integrity, disciplined escalation, and evidence-based decision-making.

What will you bring?

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

• Strong knowledge of risk and control frameworks, enterprise risk standards, and regulatory obligations.


• Experience in control testing, risk assessment, and evaluating control design and effectiveness.


• Ability to analyse data, assess root causes, identify control gaps, and provide actionable insights.


• Understanding business processes, control principles, and first-line risk management responsibilities.


• Experience supporting remediation activities, control uplift, and risk capability improvements in regulated environments.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.


• Ability to collaborate across teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver quality outcomes.


• Experience using risk, testing, and reporting tools to document assessments and insights.


• Good understanding of products, processes, and end-to-end value chains.


• Knowledge of emerging regulatory trends, risk themes, and assurance practices (2LOD/3LOD).


• Proficiency with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).


• Experience in testing methodology improvement, process optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Tertiary qualifications in business, risk, finance, IT, or related fields are highly regarded.

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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?

ANZ provides banking and financial services and operates across more than 30 markets. We are among the top 4 banks in Australia, the largest banking group in New Zealand and Pacific, and among the top 50 banks in the world. With more than 2,000 people, our team in Manilla play a critical role in executing our strategy and deliver what matters most to our customers and the bank. We continue to grow our professional services capabilities to support our customers around the world.  Our expertise and services make us a bank, and our people, purpose, and culture makes us ANZ. We're proud of the inclusive culture we're renowned for where 90 percent of our people feel they belong. 

We provide our people with a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.  We also have flexible working options so that our people can 'make work, work for them'.

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 are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit  https://www.anz.com/careers/. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 119828.

Job Posting End Date

28/07/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)