Financial Crime Analyst

**Req ID**: 83396
**Department**: Risk Group Compliance - Financial Crime
**Division**: Risk
**Location**: Melbourne
About Us
ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.
About the Role
As a Financial Crime Analyst in our Risk Group Compliance Tribe, you’ll play a key role in helping to design, maintain and deploy AML / CTF Transaction Monitoring detection controls. This role consists of specialist positions responsible for ANZ’s compliance regarding Financial Crime around AML/CTF Sanctions, Bribery, Corruption, Fraud & Investigations. Roles responsible for creating policies, procedures and controls to prevent money launderers, terrorists and sanctioned individuals and entities from conducting criminal activity using our products and services. It also captures roles responsible for conducting investigations into internal and external fraud and corruption and serious employee breaches.
Financial Crime Threat Management (FCTM) strives to protect our business and communities against financial crime threats. FCTM utilise customer data and intelligence to detect, investigate and escalate potentially suspicious activity such as money laundering, financing of terrorism, and activity involving sanctioned parties. FCTM specialists work within the Financial Crime Portfolio to support businesses across the group in complying with financial crime regulatory obligations.
This role will be involved in designing, developing and implementing new solutions to enhance the efficacy of ANZ’s enterprise AML solutions, with a focus on solutions for transaction monitoring to maintain compliance with AML/CTF obligations. Maintenance of appropriate documentation and working with other teams in the portfolio to monitor and improve the existing functions will be an ongoing function.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
**Role Type**: Fixed-Term (12 months), Full-Time
**Role Location**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008
**Work Hours**: 40 hours/week
What will your day look like?
**As a Financial Crime Analyst, you will be accountable for**:

- Design, develop and implement solutions to improve the efficacy of AML detection.
- Lead development of long term future ready solutions and encourage testing and adoption of new methods of detection.
- Review inputs (risk assessments, typology reports, intelligence findings, operational outcomes and findings, audit reports, KRIs and management information) to identify and prioritise improvements to financial crime detection systems, with specific focus on AML Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk scoring / monitoring solutions.
- Enhance reporting and insights into operation of the Financial Crime detection solutions to improve performance of the filters.
- Identify new/improved methods of detection to address coverage requirements, utilising advanced data techniques and provide input into longer term strategy for improving coverage and detection of Financial Crime.
- Develop and maintain documentation to demonstrate linkage between Financial Crime risks, coverage requirements and detection solutions.
- Develop and maintain solutions and documentation in accordance with defined processes and Model Validation requirements.
- Ensure all services delivered comply with ANZ Group governance requirements, policies, processes and standards and with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Identify issues and manage to resolution, or escalate them as required.

What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

- Proven experience in managing transaction monitoring systems, scenarios, or related financial crime processes.
- Advanced analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision-making and scenario optimization.
- Understanding of global financial crime risks, regulatory frameworks as well as the diversity of customers that ANZ provides financial services to
- Able to build strong, open and collaborative relationships, influence and negotiate outcomes.
- Previous Financial Crime and AML experience tuning or managing detection scenarios is preferred. Alternately, experience in a role which will inform decision making, such as front line banking (knowledge of banking systems/processes) or anti-fraud / credit decisioning (understands risk modelling methods).
- Strong communication skills including ability to communicate confidently and effectively with senior business stakeholders, presentation and documentation skills.
- Excellent problem solving aptitude and demonstrated organisational skills.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your tool