Professional Profile
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
Consulting & Stakeholder Engagement Strengths

Rowan Buckley

ANZ Banking Group
Moonee Ponds,VIC
1
Certification
17
years of professional experience

Senior Project Manager and Agile Delivery Leader with 18+ years of experience delivering multifaceted enterprise transformation, data migrations, regulatory uplift, digital modernization, and customer remediation initiatives within large-scale environments. Delivering sustainable business outcomes through technology change, I have demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams, establishing agile governance frameworks, managing stakeholder relationships at executive level, and driving outcomes in complex and highly regulated organisations. Recognised for consultative engagement style, ability to influence senior stakeholders, and building trusted client relationships across technology, operations, and business functions.

Work History

Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead / Product Owner

17 Years 5 Months
ANZ Banking Group | 01.2009 - Current

Responsible for strategic delivery programs across ASIC Remediation, Digital Risk, Collections, Financial Hardship, Regulatory Compliance, Customer Notifications, Products and Lending platforms within ANZ. Worked closely with executive stakeholders, technology teams, operational leaders, and external vendors to deliver business-critical outcomes.

Senior Project Manager – ASIC Matters Remediation Program – ASIC Breach Reporting

  • Responsible for the project team delivering ANZ Board and ASIC-approved remediation activities relating to ASIC breach reporting obligations. Manage cross-stream coordination across the broader remediation program, including governance reporting, budget oversight, resource management, and executive stakeholder engagement. Partner closely with 1st and 2nd Line Business Assurance teams to develop milestone closure memoranda supporting independent review and audit activities conducted by ASIC-appointed Promontory. Drive delivery alignment, governance compliance, risk management, and strategic remediation outcomes within a highly regulated environment.

Senior Project Manager – Digital Risk & Transformation

  • Responsible for leading Collection and Hardship programs of work. Directed enterprise initiatives including Hardship Simulation environment, implanting the Equifax Plato Debt Collections Platform within ANZ, and In-App Customer Nudges for collection and hardship scenarios to meet regulatory commitments. Managed end-to-end delivery including initiation, funding submission and management, agile planning, dependency management, governance reporting, delivery execution, and operational transition.

Product Owner - Lending Securities Management

  • Led discovery, mobilisation, and delivery planning for a strategic Lending Securities Management platform established in response to APRA regulatory requirements arising from the Banking Royal Commission. Established and led the agile squad, including development of delivery backlogs, prioritisation frameworks, sprint planning cadence, and stakeholder governance processes. Partnered with business, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders to align delivery outcomes with regulatory obligations, operational controls, and enterprise transformation objectives.

Product Owner – KYC Rules Engine (Fenergo)

  • Led discovery and delivery planning for strategic eKYC program with strong regulatory alignment to AUSTRAC and APRA obligations. Established the agile squad and led the development of the delivery backlog, prioritization frameworks, sprint planning cadence, and stakeholder governance processes.

Workstream Performance Lead – In-App Customer Notifications

  • Managed delivery coordination across multiple agile squads and tribes. Facilitated Big Room Planning activities, prioritised cross-functional backlogs, tracked delivery performance metrics, and supported continuous delivery outcomes.

Senior Business Analyst / Delivery Lead

  • Delivered key initiatives including the internal Siebel KYC Solution and Credit Decision Platform. Led workshops, captured requirements, facilitated stakeholder engagement sessions, and provided strategic delivery insight across Retail, Institutional, Wealth, and Customer Data divisions.

Chapter Lead – Capability Development

  • Mentored analysts and delivery professionals, established collaborative forums, improved delivery standards, and supported team capability uplift through coaching and agile practices.

Education

Bachelor of Business - Accounting

Monash University | Melbourne, VIC

Bachelor of Computing

Monash University | Melbourne, VIC

Skills

Business
Digital and Data Transformations
Regulatory Transformation (ASIC
APRA
AUSTRAC)
Agile and Waterfall Delivery
Executive Stakeholder Engagement
Budget & Resource Management
Program & Project Leadership
Vendor & Partner Management
Risk
Dependency & RAID Management
Business Case Development
Workshop Facilitation & Executive Presentations
Operating Model & Governance Design
People Leadership & Coaching
AWS
Google Cloud
IBM MDM
NICE
Genesys
AVAYA
VisionPlus
Hogan CAP
Sandstone Apply
Microsoft Office Suite
Jira
Agile Delivery Tooling.

Accomplishments

  • Delivered sustainable business outcomes across data migration and transformation programs.
  • Delivered major collections and hardship transformation initiatives supporting improved customer experience and operational efficiency.
  • Led agile delivery practices across complex enterprise environments involving multiple squads and tribes.
  • Successfully aligned delivery outcomes to ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC regulatory expectations.
  • Improved governance, prioritisation, and backlog management capability across transformation initiatives.
  • Recognised for stakeholder management, collaborative leadership, and driving outcomes under pressure.

Certification

  • Certificate IV in Project Management – ACPM
  • Agile Scrum Certification – Elabor8
  • COPC Contact Centre Management Accreditation

Timeline

Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead / Product Owner

ANZ Banking Group
01.2009 - CurrentRead More

Monash University

Bachelor of Business from Accounting
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Monash University

Bachelor of Computing
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Consulting & Stakeholder Engagement Strengths

  • Strong client-facing capability with proven success engaging executive sponsors, business leaders, delivery teams, and external vendors.
  • Experienced presenting governance updates, delivery metrics, risks, and transition outcomes to senior leadership forums.
  • Able to establish credibility quickly in new environments and build trusted stakeholder relationships.
  • Known for consultative and pragmatic delivery style with strong commercial and operational awareness.
  • Comfortable leading workshops, steering committees, and transition planning sessions in ambiguous and evolving environments.
Rowan Buckley