Financial Crime Operations Manager

7 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Westpac Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Crime Operations Manager to join our team at Westpac Group. As a key member of our Risk Division, you will play a critical role in detecting, deterring, and fighting financial crime.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and Manage Team: Oversee, mentor, and evaluate a team of financial crime analysts, ensuring high performance and professional growth.
  • Financial Crime Prevention: Develop and implement strategies to improve detection and prevention of financial crime for institutional banking customers.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with Relationship Managers and divisional teams to ensure effective customer due diligence and strong process coordination.
  • Drive Operational Excellence: Apply Active Operations Management principles, analyse KPIs, and execute remediation plans to optimize business performance and achieve operational goals.
  • Ensure Compliance and Safety: Maintain compliance standards, manage risk profiles, develop service level agreements, and promote a safe working environment through effective adherence to procedures and incident reporting.
Requirements
  • Proven experience in managing a team and overseeing financial crime operations within institutional banking.
  • At least 2 years experience in a managerial role.
  • Experience within institutional banking and knowledge of corporate and institutional banking products and services.
  • 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.
  • Strong knowledge of financial crime regulations and compliance requirements.
  • Understanding of overall business processes, support systems and tools.
  • Ability to utilise business metrics to manage operations and drive efficiency.
  • Demonstrated experience in relationship building and management for internal stakeholders.
About Westpac Group

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.

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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