Associate, Financial Crime Comprehensive

Associate, Financial Crime Comprehensive Investigation

**Associate, Financial Crime Comprehensive Investigation**

**Job no**: 793411

**Business unit**: Technology and Enterprise Operations

**Primary position location**: 700 Bourke St, Docklands, VIC

**Work type**: Permanent Full time

**Region**: VIC- Melbourne CBD
- **Suspicious Matter Report (SMR) trained Specialist (essential)**:

- **Use your expertise to conduct investigations and reports**:

- **Help prevent the use of the financial system to facilitate illegal activity**:

- **Multiple Permanent Full-Time opportunities available in Melbourne**

**It's more than a career at NAB. It's about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you'll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You'll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

It's a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as an **Associate, Financial Crime Comprehensive Investigations.**

**The Role**:
We currently have multiple permanent opportunities for an Associate to join our Financial Crime Operations (FCO) division. This specialised role in FCCI (Financial Crime Comprehensive Investigations), will be responsible for reviewing UARs submitted by colleagues and deciding or whether the activity needs to be reported to AUSTRAC.

You will be analysing customer profiles and activity through a mixture of automated and manual alerts, along with referrals from other sources. You will be responsible for drawing conclusions by appropriately documenting evidence and outcomes, in line with policies and procedures.

**Day To Day Will Include**:

- Review and action of 'Unusual Activity Reports' (UAR's) raised by frontline and backoffice staff including Transaction Monitoring alerts from NAB's various detection systems.
- Perform case reviews, assessing customers against NAB risk appetite and AML/CTF program.
- Use team gathered insights to champion continuous improvement across FCO and customer divisions.
- Contribute to the ongoing maturity of frameworks, processes, policies, tools, and practices supporting the Surveillance team.
- Produce high standard written investigation reports and other written deliverables.
- Contribute actionable intelligence, information, and insights upon request to support wider FCO functions.
- Compile and complete Suspicious Matter Reports (SMR) in preparation to submit to AUSTRAC.

**What You Will Bring**

To be successful in the role you must have demonstrated knowledge and experience of compiling and submitting SMR's to AUSTRAC and a minimum two years of experience in a relevant role in Financial Crime, and solid understanding of the global financial crime landscape - typologies, crime types and emerging trends. Applicants will also be expected to have:

- Ability to work autonomously and adhere to time critical tasks.
- Review the work conducted by colleagues and consolidate findings.
- The ability to identify gaps and data quality issues and provide solutions/alternatives to overcome any issues.
- Has shared learning outcomes upon completion of a case to help uplift the knowledge and skillset of the team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with high level of attention to detail.
- Suspicious Matter Reporting (SMR) experience is essential.

**Make a difference through your work**

At NAB, we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that exceed our customers' expectations. We are an ASX listed organisation that has been serving Australian communities for more than 160 years. We are investing in positive change and our work changes the future of banking. Our colleagues have an impact far beyond work, and you'll be part of a team that is helping to solve some of society's biggest challenges.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.**

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of respect - where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their true authentic selves at NAB. With our focus on inclusion and diversity, and in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups, NAB is a place where First Nations colleagues, colleagues of all genders, sexualities and ages, carers and colleagues with disability, and colleagues from all cultures, races and religions can thrive, connect and grow.

**More focus on you**

We're committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, g