Associate Director

**Job no**: 520294

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Sydney

**Division**: Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting

KPMG Australia is part of a global network providing extensive services across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our people collaborate, share their expertise and create innovation as we partner with clients to solve complex challenges, empower change, drive disruption and growth. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference for our clients, our firm and our communities.

**KPMG Forensic** assists clients to prevent, detect and respond to fraud, serious misconduct and corruption. Our range of services in combating financial crime includes Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF), Sanctions, and regulatory investigations. Due to our recent growth, we are looking for exceptional Anti-Financial Crime individuals to join our Forensic team. This is also an opportunity to expand your skills and gain exposure to a wide range of clients.

**Your Opportunity**

As an Associate Director in the Anti-Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance Forensic team, you will:

- Work with leading global financial services organisations and regulators and provide strategic advice on evolving financial crime matters.
- Make a positive impact to disrupt financial crime in Australia, Asia-Pacific and globally.
- Work within a market leading financial crime consulting team who have received a number of industry awards for financial crime consulting and are considered to be ‘best in class’ globally.
- Work within strong team that has significant Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) and Sanctions experience.
- Increase your profile and experience by working with leading financial institutions, providing you with a helicopter view of AML/CTF and sanctions.
- Take a lead role in the scoping, execution, and delivery of AML/CTF and sanctions advisory, review and remediation projects.
- Work across all parts of the AML/CTF framework and operating model, gaining valuable insight into KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting (IFTIs, TTRs, and SMRs).
- Manage financial crime projects, including liaising with clients and managing junior resources.
- Provide expert advice to our clients to enhance the effectiveness of our clients’ efforts to combat financial crime.
- Conduct detailed analysis of financial crime compliance policies, procedures and data.
- Lead the drafting of reports for the senior management of our clients to help them understand and effectively mitigate their financial crime risks.
- As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for growing the business, developing the Financial Crime practice and overseeing large, complex and sensitive consulting engagements.

The role will offer a great opportunity to work closely with market leading Anti-Financial Crime specialists and a fulfilling career path.

**How are you Extraordinary?**

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and unique experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities.

To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:

- Minimum 7 years’ experience in financial crime (AML/CTF and Sanctions) with a large professional consulting environment, a financial institution, or a regulatory/law enforcement agency.
- Ability to talk detail with financial crime professionals while also being able to have high-level and impactful conversations with senior business executives.
- Have a positive reputation for delivering excellence in Financial Crime and a network of business contacts in Australia you can call upon.
- Demonstrated prior experience in writing concise and high impact reports for business executives.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills to allow you to present findings for a variety of audiences, including distilling down complex issues into key messages.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage your time across multiple projects concurrently.
- Knowledge and experience working in and with the financial sector.
- Proven leadership, people and stakeholder management capabilities, including the ability to lead a team to deliver financial crime projects on time and on budget.
- Tertiary qualifications in law, international relations, accounting or other relevant academic background.

**The KPMG Difference**

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

KPMG has a decade-long, proud commitment to Indigenous Australia, as demonstrated by the achievement of an Elevate level Reconciliation Action Plan. KPMG is a foundation member and Principal Partner of Pride in Diversity started in Australia by ACON and the Diversity Council of Australia, and is recognised in the Australian Wor