Aml Analyst

Company Description
**Who we are**:
FinClear was established in 2015, with offices now in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We are an independent, Australian owned and developed technology and financial services business, specializing in providing trading, execution, clearing and technology solutions to wholesale intermediaries, FinTech’s, wealth managers and financial planners.

At FinClear - Technology and progress are in our DNA. Our Financial Markets infrastructure deals with massive amounts of data and huge volumes of transactions that are executed in real-time to a vast audience. But unlike others, we own our core regulatory and technology infrastructure enabling us to move quickly and build solutions to give our clients the competitive advantage.

We’ve tripled in size since mid-2021 and plan to continue growing with more platforms and services being rapidly developed. That’s where you come in.

**Job Description**:
This is an excellent opportunity for an **AML Analyst** looking to:

- Own AML cases from detection to reporting. You will be resourced and encouraged to efficiently find financial crime, investigate it and report it to the regulator if necessary.
- Grow into a Senior Analyst role with additional training, certification and tasking opportunities.
- Work side by side with management with exposure to new products, new technology, in a small team, no fuss culture.

At FinClear the **AML Analyst’s **key purpose is to help with the management of financial crime risk through investigating and monitoring suspicious transactions. Reporting to the Senior Manager - Financial Crime Compliance, you will be working alongside 4 others. This specific role will see you initially add value assisting the team conduct Customer Screening and Transaction Monitoring alerts and later contributing to other areas of Financial Crime Risk Management, including KYC and ACIP quality assurance, ECDD and SMR reporting.

**Key responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Open and inspect Transaction Monitoring alerts. Understand normal customer behaviour. Look out for red flags for financial crime of all kinds: Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, Fraud and ID takeover, Criminal Proceeds, Other Crimes, Tax Evasion, Market Manipulation.
- Clear the Customer Screening queue: Quickly and accurately use customer identifiers to determine the probability that our customers are listed in relevant Politically Exposed Person (PEP), Sanction and other Adverse Media lists.
- Support the Management team to conduct complex investigations, quality assurance, risk assessment and update compliance policy for our AML / CTF obligations.
- Understand KYC and IDV minimum standards: Use your understanding of Applicable Identification procedures in order to ensure that our customer are who they say they are.
- Transaction Monitoring and Customer Screening alert investigation
- Use bespoke detection, data and financial source systems to investigate unusual transaction patterns
- Determine the likelihood that our customers are watch-listed on sanctions, PEP and adverse media lists, investigate and recommend courses of action.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- 1-3 years Financial Crime experience preferred: AML/CTF Operations, Compliance or technology experience, regulator (AUSTRAC, APRA, ASIC), ASX experience, Op Risk, etc
- Market Securities experience preferred: ASX or similar market, execution, operations, compliance or customer experience preferred
- Skills in document production using MS Word, concise prose to accurately convey findings of your investigations and articulate AML risk
- High level IT literacy: MS Office super user, data experience preferred, e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Looker, SQL, etc.
- Ability to conduct suspicious transaction analysis using bespoke software and MS Excel
- Experience with AML monitoring/case management software and Customer Screening tools
- An understanding of the AML/CTF Act and Rules, FATF and DFAT Sanctions arrangements
- Discretion and maturity, especially around privacy and sensitive commercial matters
- Exposure to environments regulated by AUSTRAC, ASIC, ATO, RBA, etc.
- Certification in ACAMS, CGSS, CFE or education in Law, Commerce, Accounting, Data fields
- Ability to represent the business and senior management, liaising with e.g. vendors, internal executive audience, external AML Compliance Officers

Additional Information

What are the ingredients to our secret sauce?

That’s our people and the technology solutions we create, as the business grows, we are also evolving our benefits to one that our people love

**Benefits**:

- A team that is invested in the success of FinClear and a generous ESOP for all our employees
- 16 Weeks of gender neutral paid parental leave
- A flexible work environment - we have fantastic new offices where we come to collaborate and have those face-to-face meetings with some days at home
- An inclusive and diverse working environment for all
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