Manager - Sanctions Analytics

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank Full time
You are a curious and enthusiastic individual with a true passion for data

We are a highly engaged team with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement

Together we can build a brighter future for our customers and communities

See yourself in our team:
The Sanctions team sits under Financial Crime Analytics, Financial Crime Compliance in Risk Management.

The team is responsible for the maintenance of and enhancements to the Group's Sanctions systems by way of continual monitoring the Group's detection system.


We are responsible for analysing financial crime data, implementing detection strategies that mitigate risk and prevent financial loss whilst ensuring minimal impacts to customer experience, product profitability and reputation.

We support financial crime technology projects; this includes input into business requirements, solution design, and testing and change management.

Do work that matters:


Your role will be ensuring our detection systems are kept up to date with the latest emerging trends, whilst ensuring alert rates are kept to a minimum with nil risks occurring through changes implemented.

You will be required regularly to engage with projects to provide requirements and assist with testing and change management activities.


On a day to day basis you will:

  • Make continual improvements to detection system by designing optimization and detection rules to ensure maximum detection.
  • Detect and manage emerging events, ensure strategies are implemented which effectively manage associated risk.
  • Mitigate strategies to emerging sanction concerns within a short timeframe.
  • Perform data analysis, provide insights into trends and anomalies including root cause utilising SAS and Teradata.
We are interested to hear from people who have:

Please note that we're interested in hearing from people who might not meet all the following criteria. We're open to working with the right candidate to fill any skill gaps during your journey at CommBank.

  • Previous experience in a similar role within Banking or Financial Services.
  • Proficient SQL or SAS programming skills.
  • Provide insights into trends and anomalies including root cause utilising SAS and Teradata.
  • Statistical skillset such as R, Python and visualization tools such as Tableau.
  • Tertiary qualifications in a numerate and / or IT based discipline or relevant industry experience current and future risks.
  • Experience or Knowledge in Sanctions or other Financial Crime areas, and Payment platforms such as SWIFT or NPP.
If this sounds like the next role for you, please apply via the link


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