Manager, Assurance Financial Crime

**Manager, Assurance, Financial Crime - Chief Operating Office, Risk**
- 12 months Max TermLocation: Sydney

**How will I help?**

The 2nd Line Assurance team is part of the Chief Operating Office in Risk Division and is accountable for delivering the annual Coordinated Assurance plan approved by Divisional Risk and Compliance Committees.

This position is a 12-month contract to replace an employee who will be on a secondment.

As a Manager in the 2nd Line Assurance team, you will play a key role in the delivery and execution of assurance reviews to provide insight, oversight and challenge of risk management across the Westpac Group. This role will have a key focus on financial crime and fraud.

Responsibilities include but not limited are:

- Deliver thematic and deep dive Assurance reviews that comply with the requirements of the 2nd Line Assurance Standard to ensure the effective governance and quality of control environment for financial crime and fraud risks within the Westpac Group.
- Test and review processes and controls to assess design and operating effectiveness to ensure that key risks and obligations are managed according to Group expectations.
- Draft clear and concise issues based on testing outcomes, contribute to drafting assurance report to Senior Managers on the effectiveness of financial crime risk management, based on findings from ongoing assurance and testing activities.
- Track and review the resolution of significant issues identified.Partner and collaborate with Divisional second line teams and business stakeholders to provide progress updates and substantial findings; socialise issues and opportunities to improve financial crime risk management in their area.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**

You will have experience in financial crime risk, internal audit or similar assurance roles.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Proven experience in overseeing risk management and compliance in large-scale organisations, including controls and process testing.
- Strong and practical understanding and experience of financial crime obligations and risks (including AML/CTF, Sanctions, foreign tax transparency and Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and Fraud), including key challenges, risks, trends and regulatory environment.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders; strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Written workpapers and issues and actions should be to a reasonable quality and able to articulate key risk and compliance insights.
- Strong ethics to ensure identified issues are escalated to senior management.Experience with use of data analytics tools will be well regarded.

**What’s it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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