Manager Financial Crime Risk (12-month Role)

Manager Financial Crime Risk - 12-month Role

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The Financial Crime Risk and Controls team is responsible for ensuring that new and changing processes are assessed, awareness is raised, and risk mitigations are in place. They achieve this through the effective design and implementation of controls to enable compliance and supporting the business through new and changing processes.

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Our Bankwest Line 1 Financial Crime team are responsible for strengthening the culture of financial crime compliance across Bankwest. We support the business actively manage and reduce its financial crime risks, ensuring Bankwest meets its regulatory and community expectations.

We achieve this through driving effective implementation of the Group’s AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC policies whilst continually strengthening our Financial Crime risk management framework, procedures and controls.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Financial Crime Risk and Controls, you will be part of the team that supports the consistent application of FC risk framework within Bankwest and assist in the prioritisation and remediation of risk related issues.

You will design and implement controls to enable better risk and compliance outcomes, providing guidance and advice to senior leaders on their application. Other responsibilities include:

• Driving continuous improvement of the business control environment by using data to generate insights and reports

• Overseeing the effective design of controls for all new and changing processes and operations, and advise business leaders throughout the implementation process

• Proactively managing risk and controls and collaborate with the business

We're interested in hearing from people who have:

• Experience in operational risk management and compliance ideally within banking, financial services or law enforcement (preferable)

• Strong technical knowledge and experience in the application of financial crime risk management frameworks and expertise in AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC (preferable)

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder managements skills and ability to negotiate and influence at all levels

• Excellent written and verbal communication including writing of committee papers and facilitation of working groups with multiple stakeholders