Senior Lead - Automation Implementation and Control Testing

ANZ Banking Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing services

Hybrid work options

Job summary

ANZ Banking Group in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Lead - Automation Implementation to strengthen the automation strategy and uplift capability across Group Technology’s Control Testing Squad. You will drive planning, execution, and governance, coordinating with vendors and stakeholders to deliver outcomes aligned to program objectives.

You will lead delivery, manage scope, and maintain clear reporting while addressing risks and dependencies, ensuring robust controls and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of automation and control testing methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of non-financial risk frameworks, risk obligations, and regulatory standards.
• Advanced capability in data analytics and automation tools to support scalable, efficient control testing.
• Familiarity with governance, risk, and audit reporting requirements.
• Ability to contribute to continuous improvement of control testing methodologies, tools, and practices.
• Exposure to regulatory change, remediation activity, or broader control-uplift program.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the automation implementation, managing team cadences, setting clear priorities and driving execution to meet program objectives, timelines, and outcomes.
• Manage scope and ensuring requirements, process changes, and solution design align to business outcomes, while proactively addressing risks, impacts, and dependencies.
• Drive clarity across end-to-end processes and customer/staff experiences, ensuring alignment and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Lead project governance and reporting, ensuring risks, issues, and dependencies are actively managed and meet enterprise delivery and risk requirements, with strong documentation discipline.
• Apply strong technology awareness to support solution discussions, enabling and driving informed decisions and alignment between business and technical delivery.

Skills

Project management

Delivery leadership

Coordination

Data analytics

Automation tools

Risk awareness

Job description

Senior Lead - Control Testing Automation & Transformation

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, Automation Implementation in Group Technology’s Control Testing Squad, you will be instrumental in strengthening ANZ’s automation implementation strategy uplifting capability, creating and improving future‑state processes, and enhancing how the bank manages and completes automation. You will bring strong Project Management, delivery and coordination capabilities, driving planning, execution, and governance across the initiative. This includes producing and maintaining timelines, managing releases, coordinating across technology and business stakeholders (including vendors), and providing clear reporting to leadership. You will ensure requirements and delivery outputs are well understood, risks are actively managed, and outcomes are delivered in line with program objectives. 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 Type: Fulltime, Permanent. Role Location: Bengaluru

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Lead Automation Implementation, you will:

• Leading end-to-end delivery of the automation implementation, managing team cadences, setting clear priorities and driving execution to meet program objectives, timelines, and outcomes.
• Managing scope and ensuring requirements, process changes, and solution design align to business outcomes, while proactively addressing risks, impacts, and dependencies.
• Driving clarity across end-to-end processes and customer/staff experiences, ensuring alignment and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Leading project governance and reporting, ensuring risks, issues, and dependencies are actively managed and meet enterprise delivery and risk requirements, with strong documentation discipline.
• Applying strong technology awareness to support solution discussions, enabling and driving informed decisions and alignment between business and technical delivery.

What will you bring?

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

• Strong understanding of automation and control testing methodologies, including design and operating‑effectiveness assessment.
• Strong knowledge of non‑financial risk frameworks, risk obligations, and regulatory standards.
• Advanced capability in data analytics and automation tools to support scalable, efficient control testing.
• Familiarity with governance, risk, and audit reporting requirements.
• Ability to contribute to continuous improvement of control testing methodologies, tools, and practices.
• Exposure to regulatory change, remediation activity, or broader control‑uplift program.

So why join us?

ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world.

Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong.

We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it).

Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.

• We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it).
• Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.

We want to continue building a diverse workplace and welcome applications from everyone.

Please 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 or access requirements, 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/ .