Financial Crime Specialist

2 months ago

Sydney, Australia Westpac Banking Corporation Full time

Financial Crime Specialist - Institutional Banking
- **Permanent role**:

- **Role can be based in Sydney (Parramatta) or Melbourne**:

- **Full-time role (Monday-Friday)**

**How will I help?**

The Financial Crime Surveillance (FCS) team is part of Westpac's Risk Division and is responsible for detecting, deterring and fighting financial crime. This role is part of the first line of defence for financial crime related risks such as anti-money laundering, sanctions, KYC and customer due diligence.

As a Financial Crime Specialist, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding the Westpac Group against financial crimes, including money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activities. Your primary responsibility will be to conduct comprehensive customer due diligence activities across the Group's customer base, focusing on Institutional Banking customers, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and industry standards. You will work closely with internal teams and external partners to identify and mitigate financial crime risks.

Your day to day will look like:

- **Subject Matter Expert**: For customer due diligence activities, specialising in institutional banking products and services.
- **Advanced Investigations**: Perform sophisticated financial crime analysis, using your expertise to uncover and address suspicious activities.
- **Team Support**: Serve as a primary resource for analysts, offering guidance and assistance on complex cases.
- **Coaching**: Conduct peer reviews to ensure the quality and accuracy of investigative work performed by your team.
- **Managerial Delegation**: Act as the key delegate in the absence of managers, ensuring that operations continue smoothly and efficiently.
- **Reporting Assistance**: Support the preparation and management of reporting requests to meet organizational and regulatory requirements.

**What's in it for me?**
- **Flexible Work Schedule**: Monday to Friday with flexible start and finish times.
- **Hybrid Work Environment**: Start with full-time in-office work for the first couple of months, then transition to a hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days working from home).
- **Dynamic Work**: No two cases are the same, offering you a stimulating and varied work experience.
- **Supportive Culture**: Access to resources and guidance from a supportive team.

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- Experience within institutional banking and knowledge of corporate and institutional banking products and services.
- You will bring at least 3 years' experience within Financial Crime or within institutional banking.
- You will possess knowledge of financial crime typologies for institutional banking products and services i.e. trade finance, foreign exchange markets, corporate lending facilities etc.
- Investigative mindset and strong analytical skills.
- Critical thinking and the ability to interpret information and make decisions.
- Effective stakeholder engagement skills and experience managing relationships.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

**What's it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared vision to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, desire to grow or all the little perks in between.

We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow. As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.
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