Senior Financial Crime Manager

About this role

Senior Financial Crime Manager

Sydney | Permanent

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Financial Crime Operations leader to join a highly regulated Australian organisation.

Reporting into the Head of Financial Crime, you will lead a high-performing operations team responsible for customer due diligence, enhanced customer due diligence and transaction monitoring. This is a leadership-focused role where you'll be responsible for driving operational excellence, developing leaders and ensuring the function continues to meet evolving regulatory obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop Team Leaders and their Financial Crime Operations teams.
• Drive the day-to-day performance of CDD, ECDD and Transaction Monitoring operations.
• Foster a strong coaching culture, providing ongoing training and development to junior team members and emerging leaders.
• Ensure operational activities are delivered in line with AML/CTF obligations, internal policies and regulatory expectations.
• Monitor team performance, quality and productivity, implementing process improvements where required.
• Partner with stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, Technology and Operations to deliver business outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to enhance customer experience while maintaining a robust risk and control environment.
• Support operational change initiatives, regulatory projects and continuous improvement programs.

You'll bring

• Demonstrated experience leading Financial Crime Operations teams within banking, financial services, wagering, payments, insurance or another regulated industry.
• Strong leadership experience managing Team Leaders and larger operational teams.
• Hands-on knowledge of Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Transaction Monitoring and AML/CTF operations.
• A track record of coaching, mentoring and developing junior analysts and people leaders.

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