A leading Australian financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to provide independent second-line oversight and challenge across its Financial Crime function.

The role will focus on ensuring financial crime risks are effectively identified, assessed and managed in line with risk appetite and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent oversight and challenge across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, scams, anti-bribery and corruption, and tax transparency.
• Conduct thematic reviews, deep dives and targeted financial crime risk assessments.
• Assess the design and effectiveness of financial crime controls.
• Challenge first-line risk assessments, control environments and remediation plans.
• Identify and escalate material risks, control weaknesses and compliance issues.
• Oversee financial crime regulatory change, including Australia’s AML/CTF reforms.
• Provide financial crime advice across new products, projects and strategic initiatives.
• Prepare clear reporting and recommendations for senior management and governance committees.
• Partner with senior business and risk stakeholders to deliver practical, risk-based outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum five years’ experience across financial crime, compliance or risk within banking or financial services.
• Strong second-line financial crime oversight and independent challenge experience.
• Sound knowledge of AML/CTF, sanctions and financial crime risk frameworks.
• Experience conducting risk assessments, thematic reviews and control-effectiveness assessments.
• Current knowledge of Australian AML/CTF reforms.
• Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Excellent written communication, with experience preparing executive and governance reporting.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

If you have the skills mentioned above, please click “APPLY” now. Alternatively, if you want a confidential chat, please email me at alex.nguyen@talentinternational.com

Talent is recruiting for our leading financial services client, seeking an Executive Manager, Financial Crime.

Bringing deep financial crime expertise and institutional banking experience, you will challenge established approaches, strengthen assessment methodologies and drive more insightful, data-informed outcomes.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Enhance financial crime risk assessment methodologies, standards, guidance and governance frameworks
• Drive strategic uplift initiatives supporting evolving money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing risk assessment requirements
• Apply institutional banking expertise to improve assessments across complex products, customers and business activities
• Partner with Financial Crime, Risk, Legal, Technology and business stakeholders to strengthen assessment quality and consistency

To be successful in this role:

• Significant financial crime experience within banking, with institutional or wholesale banking experience essential
• Strong Line 2 experience providing financial crime advice, oversight and effective challenge
• Demonstrated experience developing or enhancing financial crime risk assessment methodologies and frameworks
• A strong understanding of inherent risk, control effectiveness and residual risk assessment
• Experience supporting regulatory change, financial crime transformation or strategic capability uplift

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com