Program Director - Banking

• Location- Sydney
• 2 year FTC with likely conversion to permanent
• $230k - $250k + super + bonus

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Program Director to lead the board-endorsed transformation within the regulatory space

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership, direction, and governance for the program, ensuring delivery against board-approved objectives.
• Oversee multiple delivery streams (including Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads, and supporting teams) and ensure alignment with transformation goals.
• Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, reporting, and risk management processes.
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships across fraud operations, technology, risk, compliance, and executive leadership.
• Ensure program alignment with broader financial crime roadmap
• Drive continuous improvement, change enablement, and embedding of new ways of working.
• Oversee vendor and partner engagement, ensuring value-for-money and quality delivery.
• Ensure program milestones are met on time, within scope, and to budget.

Must have experience:

• Proven track record as a Program Director / Portfolio Director within large-scale transformation initiatives in financial services.
• Financial crime domain expertise, with proven success in leading compliance-driven programs.
• Prior experience working with operations teams or similar operations - transformation programs
• Extensive experience in agile delivery, scaled agile frameworks, and hybrid transformation approaches.
• Deep expertise in program governance, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience working with C-level executives and board committees.
• Experience overseeing workflow or case management technology implementations.
• High resilience and adaptability to evolving business and regulatory environments.
• Experience leading multi-year transformation programs with budgets exceeding $50m.

Candidates must be based in Sydney with full work rights. Office attendance is 2-3 days p.w, and this is not open to day rate candidates (see above). Please note that only candidates whose experience matches the requirements will be considered, and only candidates that are shortlisted will be contacted.