Head of External Reporting

**Req ID**: 106039
**Department**: CFC - Financial Control - New Zealand
**Division**: Enterprise Finance
**Location**: Wellington
Ko Mātou - About Us
Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. 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.
Mō te tūranga - About the role
The Head of External Reporting within ANZ’s Financial Control function leads the preparation of ANZ NZ’s external financial reports, ensuring full compliance with IFRS, ANZ policies, and all statutory and regulatory obligations. In this role, you will provide strategic financial insights to senior stakeholders on business and regulatory initiatives, manage key relationships with external auditors, and represent ANZ in influential forums such as RBNZ and NZBA. You will also oversee subsidiary statutory reporting and internal Board reporting, ensuring strong governance, accuracy, and timely delivery across all processes.
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**: Wellington Preferred
**Role Type**: 10 Month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment, Fulltime
Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?
The Head of External Reporting position heads ANZ’s accomplished External Reporting team and is a dynamic and impactful role with a broad range of responsibilities. Some of your day-to-day activities may include:
Lead the planning, communication, and delivery of ANZ NZ’s statutory and regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, insightful supporting documentation, and preparation of Board papers that meet external reporting requirements.
Oversee subsidiary reporting processes end-to-end, maintaining rigorous quality assurance and compliance standards to deliver timely and reliable outcomes.
Drive statutory and regulatory projects, interpreting new requirements and implementing solutions that support external reporting objectives and deliver optimal results for the Bank.
Champion financial integrity by embedding robust controls and governance, ensuring all statutory and regulatory information is accurate, complete, and delivered on time.
Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing expert advice and guidance to support business decisions while ensuring adherence to financial policies and regulatory obligations.
Lead process improvement initiatives by simplifying, standardising, and automating activities where possible, while recruiting, developing, and motivating a high-performing team to achieve excellence.
This position offers flexibility and creativity—you’ll be encouraged to bring your unique perspective and flair to make the role your own.
Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?
You are someone who enjoys a challenge, is always proactive and looks for ways to improve and simplify how things are done. To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Deep experience in financial institutions and/or auditing, with a strong background in financial controls and complex reporting environments.
A track record of successfully leading and inspiring finance professionals to achieve high performance and continuous improvement.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively across a diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders.
Strong influencing capability at all levels, coupled with the confidence to drive change and embed best practices.
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, both detailed and conceptual, with an end-to-end process mindset and a clear focus on delivering for customers.
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.
He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?
From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where 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 community you need to take the next big step in your career.
We're a diverse community 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 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