External Reporting Specialist

**Req ID**: 97569
**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
As an External Reporting Specialist in ANZ’s External Reporting team, you’ll play a key role in supporting critical projects and reporting requirements, ensuring our practices are streamlined and our reporting obligations are met. This role in instrumental to our ongoing reporting compliance and will support the management and delivery of new and existing reporting initiatives across the business. You’ll be joining an established team of skilled and supportive reporting specialists who value collaboration, and work seamlessly together to deliver exceptional outcomes.
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
**Role Type**: 15 Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract
Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?
**As an External Reporting Specialist, you will**:
Prepare and review complex regulatory and financial reports, including regulatory returns, ANZ Group reporting, and disclosure statement notes, ensuring compliance with IFRS, Group policies, and regulatory standards.
Manage and support external reporting projects with a hands-on, analytical approach, offering well-supported recommendations through high-quality financial analysis and reconciliations.
Ensure accurate, well-documented analysis and timely responses to reviews, queries, and audit requests, with appropriate issue escalation.
Build strong relationships across the business to deliver practical, effective reporting solutions.
Assess upcoming regulatory and accounting changes to ensure positive outcomes and compliance with ANZ Finance policy.
Drive process improvements through simplification, standardisation, and automation where possible.
Provide clear, accurate communication and advice to internal stakeholders to ensure all reporting meets accounting, regulatory and statutory requirements and timelines.
Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Proven experience working in a financial services or auditing environment and managing complex projects across a large organisation
Chartered Accountant, Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) or equivalent
Have a proactive, curious mindset and be able to work independently within a busy work environment
Significant demonstrated experience with statutory and regulatory reporting and analysis in financial accounting regulatory reporting
Strong ability to be able to analyse data to make purposeful discoveries and support critical decision making
Ability to build critical working relationships with a range of stakeholders, and engage and influence wide audiences
Sound knowledge of IFRS
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 that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.
Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date
12/06/2025, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)