Financial Control Associate

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited; Philippines; On-site; PHP 480,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Health and wellbeing services

Job summary

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited is seeking a Finance professional in Manila to safeguard financial information and drive accounting, reporting, and control activities. You will support onshore teams, manage centralized processes, and push for automation and standardised controls.

Role is permanent and full-time with dayshift schedules. The team focuses on governance, regulatory compliance, and timely financial reporting to support business performance.

Qualifications

• Graduate of Accounting, Finance and Commerce or equivalent degree.
• Preferably Chartered Accountant (CA) or CPA with proven experience in Finance services roles.
• Solid working knowledge of financial control within a financial services environment.
• Experience presenting finance matters and resolutions to stakeholders.
• Experience with automation, data analytics, or digital tools is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accounting and reporting services to support onshore teams with accurate, timely financial information.
• Manage end-to-end centralized, country-agnostic processes (journals, reconciliations).
• Develop deep process expertise while supporting statutory reporting and controls.
• Ensure quality at source through strong process controls.
• Support centralized data sourcing, accounting, and reporting services for in-country teams.
• Own centralized, standardized processes and controls within the Insto team.
• Deliver timely month-end outputs for financial reporting and audits.
• Support change agenda through simplification, automation, and elimination of manual activities.

Skills

Financial control

Stakeholder communication

Process improvement

Automation awareness

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance and Commerce

Tools

Python

KNIME

VBA

Power BI

Alteryx

Job description

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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

The Manila Finance team plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity of ANZ's financial information through the delivery of accounting, financial control, reporting, and balance sheet control activities. The team supports a broad range of businesses and portfolios, ensuring strong governance, effective controls, regulatory compliance, and the provision of accurate, timely, and reliable financial information.

The role is part of the Financial Control community of practice, with principal accountabilities including:

• Ensuring compliance with all statutory, regulatory, and financial reporting requirements
• Supporting the implementation and monitoring of the Group's accounting policies and internal control frameworks
• Maintaining the integrity of financial information through accurate, reliable, and timely reporting
• Supporting ANZ's Future of Finance agenda through simplification, standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement
• Embedding a strong governance and control culture across all activities

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: Permanent, full-time

Shift Schedule: Dayshift schedules will be adhered to

What will your day look like?

In particular, this role is responsible for:

• Supporting the finance function, with a focus on delivering the accounting and reporting services to support the onshore teams including the provision of accurate and timely financial and local regulatory information and ensuring that all processes and reporting obligations are adequately met.
• Managing end-to-end centralized, country-agnostic processes (e.g., journals, reconciliations)
• Developing deep process expertise while remaining flexible across various statutory & reporting and controls center of excellence functions
• Ensuring "quality at source" through strong process-level controls
• Supporting centralized data sourcing, accounting, and reporting services for in-country finance teams
• Supporting the implementation and ownership of centralised, standardised processes and controls within the Insto team
• Delivering timely month-end outputs including registers, schedules, reconciliations, and trial balances, ensuring readiness for financial reporting and audits
• Supporting the BU change agenda, including simplification, automation, and elimination of manual activities in partnership with the FSDI team

What will you bring?

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

• Graduate of Accounting, Finance and Commerce or equivalent degree
• Preferably Chartered Accountant (CA) or CPA with proven experience in Finance services roles
• Solid working knowledge of financial control within a financial services environment
• Experience in presenting finance matters, including issues and resolutions to stakeholders
• Experience with automation, data analytics, or digital tools such as Python, KNIME, VBA, Power BI, Alteryx, or similar technologies is highly desirable

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.