Apply: Manager, Financial Crime Strategy & Advice

Reference: BH-174107-1
The Role & The Organisation

Our client is one of the most reputable Financial Institutions in Australia. You will join their Financial Crime Intelligence team sitting in Line 1, and provide tailored, fit-for-purpose compliance advice to Retail & Business Banking stakeholders driving a high and consistent level of implementation of legislations and policy requirements.

Job Responsibilities
  • Provide day-to-day advisory to business stakeholders on financial crime risk policies, procedures and standards (AMLCTF, CDD, Sanctions, AB&C).
  • Support the senior management team in establishing, maturing, and maintaining the business level financial-crime risk related guidance, standards and procedures to accompany the provision of advice.
  • Actively challenge and assess the effectiveness of business BAU processes in managing financial crime risk.
  • Participate in various business initiative discussions to explore new business opportunity whilst making sure financial crime risks are well managed in line with agreed protocols.
  • Partner with key stakeholders (such as Line 2 Risk & Compliance, Change Management, Product and Technology and Operations) to continuously improve financial crime risk management efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Provide training in line with endorsed principles and stakeholder inputs to support the implementation of policies and procedures.
  • Support the senior management team to maintain appropriate reporting for relevant governance committees pertaining to financial crime risks.
The Requirements
  • 3-5 years of experience in a risk and controls function focused on financial crime risk within a large banking organisation with exposure across multiple retail and business banking products.
  • Project based financial crime risk advisory experience is preferred. Alternatively, you may have gained similar experience whilst consulting banking clients at a professional services firm.
  • Solid technical knowledge around CDD, AML/CTF, Sanction, AB&C policy and control, with a thorough understanding of Anti-Money Laundering legislation and regulations in Australia, Sanctions and Bribery and Corruption laws/regulations implemented by Australia government and other main countries/international organisations.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities to influence key stakeholders through effective communication and persuasive presentations.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and to make independent decisions with the condition that all decisions are assessed in a risk-based approach and with good understanding of the policy requirement.

Please contact Eugena Gong (eugenag@ethosbc.com.au) or apply directly via the Apply for this job button. Only WORD FORMAT CVs will be accepted.
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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