Senior Analyst Financial Crime Governance & Reporting

About this role

We’ve never been ‘just a bank’. Just like you should never be ‘just an employee’. We’re united in our belief that in banking, better can be bigger, and together we’re making it happen.

It starts here. With Bendigo Bank… and you.

Come and be part of our specialist Financial Crime Risk team. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your expertise in a critical area of risk management, providing vital support to uplift the bank’s financial crime governance and reporting frameworks.

We are currently recruiting a driven and detail-oriented professional to join our Group Risk function. As a Senior Analyst in our specialist Financial Crime team, you’ll make an impact by:

• Empowering leadership by delivering clear, accurate, and timely insights on financial crime risk, control effectiveness, and emerging threats.
• Translating complex data into meaningful risk intelligence that supports executive decision-making and governance oversight.
• Enhancing our capabilities by helping to develop and maintain the bank’s financial crime management information (MI) framework.
• Collaborating across the business to ensure the quality and integrity of financial crime reporting inputs and drive a more quantitative approach to risk management.

The Senior Analyst, FC Governance and Reporting reports to the Senior Manager – Financial Crime Reporting. In this key specialist role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the Group MLRO, Chief Risk Officer, and Senior Leadership receive high-quality reporting on the bank's financial crime risk profile. You will help translate complex data into meaningful intelligence that aligns with regulatory expectations and supports risk-based decision-making.

Key accountabilities include

• Executive Reporting: Assist with the preparation and delivery of financial crime risk reporting to senior management, executive committees, and the board risk committee.
• MI Framework: Help develop and maintain the bank’s financial crime management information framework, including metrics, dashboards, and key risk indicators.
• Risk Insights: Analyse financial crime data to identify trends, emerging risks, and control issues, providing forward-looking insights to support proactive risk management.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with the Financial Crime Leadership and Operations teams to ensure timely, comprehensive, and accurate financial crime risk reporting.

What you’ll bring to the role

Essential

• Experience in financial crime risk management within the financial services industry.
• Experience preparing executive-level risk reporting and management information.
• A solid understanding of financial crime risk frameworks and governance structures.
• The ability to translate complex financial crime data into clear insights for senior stakeholders.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant financial crime laws and regulations (e.g., from AUSTRAC).

Highly desirable

• Experience with financial crime analytics and reporting tools.
• Experience utilizing data and analytics to inform financial crime risk reporting.
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field or a Financial Crime Industry qualification (such as ACAMS, AFCS).

This is a permanent full-time position located in Melbourne, Bendigo, Adelaide, Sydney or Brisbane. We offer flexible work options that put our people first, working in a hybrid model with a minimum local Head Office attendance requirement determined by your Leader, to find a rhythm that works best for you and your team.

Internal Applications

Please note, all internal candidates are required to notify their immediate leader when applying for a new career opportunity and you will be asked to acknowledge they have done so upon submission of your application.

So, why work for us?

Want big impact that matters? Here, you’ll know your work directly benefits the customers and communities we all serve. You’ll also get access to a great range of benefits, including:

• Flexibility means different things for different people. Whether it’s hybrid work, flexible hours, a compressed work week, job-sharing or something different, our flexible work options are designed to put people first.
• Health and wellbeing support, including discounted gym memberships, private health insurance options, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your immediate family members.
• Opportunities to take your learning to the next level through our corporate university ‘BEN U’ or at an external provider of your choice.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success and we actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity of thought to our business. We support candidate requests for adjustment to accommodate an illness, injury, or disability to equitably participate in the selection process.

Still in two minds?

Research suggests 60% of women and underrepresented groups might stop here, even after getting as far as drafting an application. We believe that diversity makes every team stronger, so even if you don’t tick every box, we still want to see your application!

We’re making better, bigger. And we’ll get there with you.

Now’s the time to set your sights even higher – on the future you and the future career you deserve.

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