Financial Crime Risk Specialist

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ashurst Full time
Job Title: Financial Crime Risk Specialist

Location: Sydney

We are seeking a highly skilled Financial Crime Risk Specialist to join our team in Sydney. As a Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering advice to clients in relation to financial crime risk and compliance, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF), Economic and Trade Sanctions (Sanctions), and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist clients to address gaps and uplift compliance capabilities;
  • Produce financial crime risk and compliance artefacts, including reports;
  • Collaborate with experts across Ashurst to research a new field and use those learnings to help define and build a strategic capability or client opportunity for the Financial Crime team;
  • Assist in the ongoing management of client relationships and support business development initiatives, including the preparation of go-to-market materials;
  • Provide local and global market insight to support clients' strategic planning with activities such as impact analyses, contingency planning, risk identification and mitigation initiatives.

About You:

  • You're excited about using your talents to help solve a diverse range of client problems with new, unique and inventive solutions;
  • Experience providing risk-related advice across one or all of AML/CTF, ABC and Sanctions;
  • 3-5 years' experience in a client facing role within a well-respected consulting firm;
  • You have an intermediate level of professional skills, including strong proficiency in the written form, good presentation skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to take proactive steps to achieve agreed outcomes;
  • Proven expertise in supporting the review, development and/or design of relevant AML/CTF or other financial crime initiatives, including for example, risk assessments, policy/process/procedures/controls, target operating models, strategy, audits, technology, regulatory response and other relevant projects;
  • Strong desire to learn and develop your skills and understanding of financial crime;
  • You're passionate about collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team;
  • You're not afraid to have your own view and you approach challenging problems with both confidence and humility, while also embracing alternate viewpoints.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We are a team devoted to collaboration, diversity, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around teamwork and a structure that offers everyone a voice and the encouragement to help us build the practice. Our ambition is to hire a highly diverse team combining various personalities, cultures and professional backgrounds, and offer them the opportunity to directly deal with clients, take responsibility for business development, drive their careers, and help us in defining our strategy, culture and processes.

We offer award winning Learning & Development and Diversity & Inclusion programs, and a range of benefits including, subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complimentary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses, flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few. We are also committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme, with a strong emphasis on working with First Nations people through our pro bono practice.



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