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 role is part of the Financial Control (FC) community of practice, with principal general accountabilities being:

Strong understanding of the financial control framework and able to close the books every month end.
Has ability to prepare Annual Financial Statements for audit
Ensuring compliance with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements (local or group)
Implementation and monitoring of the Group's accounting policies and internal control frameworks
Integrity of the numbers by delivering accurate, reliable and timely financial information
Can drive future of Finance simplification agenda, ensuring consistency with objectives and a focus on continuous improvement
Embedding a robust governance culture

In particular, this role is responsible for:

Daily Oversight: Review and oversee daily and monthly operations to ensure accuracy, timeliness, control compliance, and appropriate issue identification and escalation.
Annual Financial Statement preparation: To help prepare and review the Annual Financial statements including the corresponding schedule and notes to FS. Manage the team and coordinate with onshore and external auditors in submission and completion.
Process Owner & SME: Act as the subject matter expert and owner of centralized Finance Control processes, ensuring standardized and consistent execution across Manila.
Onshore Interface: Serve as the primary point of contact for process and control matters, partnering closely with onshore stakeholders to align operations with statutory, reporting, and regulatory requirements.
Process & Systems Acumen: Demonstrate the ability to quickly learn and apply Finance Control process flows, system functionalities, and end‑to‑end operational dependencies.
Accounting Standards & Policy Knowledge: Apply working knowledge of accounting standards and Finance policies (e.g. IFRS, including areas such as IFRS 16, fixed assets accounting, and recognition principles), or demonstrate strong learning agility and practical application of these standards in day‑to‑day oversight.
Process Improvement: Drive and support re‑engineering, simplification, automation, and centralization initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, and control effectiveness.
Risk & Control Management: Identify risks, control gaps, and inefficiencies, and support remediation activities to strengthen the overall control environment.
Cross‑Team Support & Capability Building: Provide coverage for peers and contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and capability uplift across the Finance Control team.

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

What will your day look like

The Finance Control Centre of Excellence (CoE) exist to standardize, optimize, and safeguard the finance processes performed across the function. The team ensures a robust control environment, embeds operational resilience, and serves as the engine for continuous improvement and best‑practice adoption in Finance Control.

Month-End Close & Reporting: Oversee close governance, journal controls, reconciliations, balance sheet substantiation, and group reporting.
Technical accounting: Support the business by analyzing complex accounting issues, researching applicable accounting standards, and preparing technical accounting memos. Your day-to-day work will include advising stakeholders on transactions, supporting audits, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies.
Financial Statement preparation: Focus on preparing and coordinating the Annual Financial Statements, including compiling financial data, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and aligning disclosures with regulatory requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, respond to audit queries, reconcile schedules, and support timely filing and approval of statutory reports.
Audit Management: Respond promptly to auditor queries and address findings in a timely manner.
Control Integrity: Maintain strong, consistent controls across processes and regions to prevent gaps and reduce non‑financial risk.
Compliance & Assurance: Identify and mitigate compliance risks, ensure adherence to policies/regulations, and provide accurate, consistent financial reporting.
Time management: Comfortable working with tight and moving deadlines
Stakeholder Management: Comfortable having conversations and discussions with multiple stakeholders.

What will you bring

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

Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline; CA / CPA preferred
Strong experience and demonstrated interest in process re‑engineering and continuous improvement
Extensive years professional experience within financial services or regulated environments
Deep working knowledge of financial controls, including design, operation, and oversight
Strong process, controls, and systems acumen, enabling effective process excellence and change delivery
Proven ability to identify, implement, and embed improvements to processes and reporting
Highly articulate communicator with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

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 112419.

Job Posting End Date

08/06/2026 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)

Financial Control Specialist, Controls Centre of Excellence