Aml Investigations Analyst

**About the Role**

This exciting permanent opportunity will assist in the mitigation of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) risks by conducting assessment and investigation across alert’s generated by BOQs detection and monitoring systems.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Assess and investigate cases raised from BOQs AML/CTF Transaction Monitoring Program to identify potential ML/TF indicators or red flags.
- Adhere to internal investigation, external regulatory reporting SLAs, KPI and quality targets.
- Extracting, understanding, and interpreting Transaction Monitoring data to pursue lines of inquiry in relation to customers, source of funds, beneficial owners, and related parties.
- Clear articulation of investigation findings, including monitoring escalated outcomes or presenting to senior management.
- Understanding and keeping abreast of established and emerging ML/TF trends, typologies, and issues.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders across BOQ Group where required to complete investigations.
- Assist with Project work, including case presentations.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have previous experience within a financial crime team, preferably within AML/CTF transaction monitoring and investigations. In order to be successful for this position you will have two years plus experience in a similar role.

**Skills & knowledge**:

- 2+ years’ experience in a Financial Crimes Operations team, AML/CTF Investigator or Transaction Monitoring role.
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience with:

- Financial crime processes and procedures,
- AML typologies, indicators, and red flags,
- AML/CTF Act and Rules,
- Financial Crime Risk including Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorism Financing (TF) risk,
- Suspicious Matter Reporting (SMR) timeframes and compliance requirements,
- Banking codes of practice and other relevant legislation including Privacy Act and Criminal Code,
- Understanding of the responsibilities and approach of key regulators.
- Ability to provide independent advice (orally and in writing) to senior level management on highly technical matters

**About Us**
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.

**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- BUPA Corporate Plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- A ‘zero tolerance’ to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) with active support for employees experiencing DFV
- Accessible work support through various practices, systems, office adjustments
- Gym, shopping, technology and travel offers
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on; First Nations Reconciliation Council, EPIC (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career.

**How to Apply**

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ01621