Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

About Us

ANZ strives to create a world where individuals and communities flourish, with a shared mission to enhance the financial wellbeing and sustainability of millions of customers.

About The Role

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will play a vital advisory role in delivering thoughtful, inclusive, and top-quality recruitment processes across ANZ Aotearoa. Collaborating closely with business leaders, your mission is to attract and secure exceptional talent for a range of highly specialised and critical business positions that underpin ANZ’s ongoing achievements.

You will manage end-to-end recruitment with confidence and care, investing time to understand business requirements, carefully assess candidates, and provide prompt and clear guidance to hiring managers, candidates, and stakeholders. You will adeptly balance quality, governance, and candidate experience while juggling multiple recruitment tasks and business priorities. ANZ is evolving alongside changes in banking, offering opportunities for individuals to learn, grow, and explore new challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with business leaders to fully understand current and upcoming capability requirements, ensuring high-quality end-to-end recruitment across complex, specialist, and critical roles.
• Establish trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders, offering strategic recruitment advice throughout the hiring cycle.
• Promote inclusive and equitable hiring by supporting diversity objectives and coaching leaders to rethink traditional recruitment approaches.
• Use market insight, talent intelligence, and proactive sourcing to identify and attract highly skilled candidates in competitive markets.
• Deliver recruitment results efficiently while maintaining compliance with ANZ’s recruitment policies, employment laws, risk management, and governance standards.
• Contribute as a senior team member within a dynamic recruitment team, fostering collaboration, shared responsibility, and workload balancing during busy periods.
• Continuously enhance recruitment processes, tools, and methods to improve efficiency, candidate experience, and outcomes.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive hands-on experience in in-house recruitment within large, complex organisations, with success in recruiting specialist, critical, or difficult-to-fill roles.
• Familiarity with recruiting across demanding specialist domains such as Institutional Banking, Funds Management, Markets, Risk, Technology, Data, or other specialised professional areas.
• Proven capability in attracting and engaging passive candidates, utilizing proactive sourcing in competitive talent markets.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to advise and coach hiring managers on inclusive and effective recruitment methods.
• Excellent organisational skills enabling management of busy and changing recruitment portfolios while upholding quality, accuracy, and a positive candidate experience.
• Experience working within established recruitment protocols, policies, and governance frameworks, exercising sound judgment to navigate complex recruiting scenarios.
• A pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset with the flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and collaborate to achieve results.

Additional Details

This role is a 12-month secondment/fixed-term contract position based in Auckland or Wellington.

The job posting closes on 18th September 2026 at 11:59 PM (Melbourne, Australia time).