Executive Manager Financial Crime Risk Advisory

**Executive Manager, Financial Crime Risk Advisory**

**Team**:
The Financial Crime Risk Advisory team is a first line of defence function that provides comprehensive and integrated risk services in support of Financial Crime Services (FCS). The value proposition of the FCA is to provide skilled, practical and efficient risk management to support the FCS in the delivery of excellent business and customer outcomes.

Through the provision of high-quality consistent advice and active risk management, we empower FCS to detect, deter and disrupt financial crime in a safe and compliant manner. We build, support and enhance financial crime capability and operations; and encourage and empower our stakeholders to be accountable for how their activities impact the financial crime risk environment. We are vigilant, pragmatic, and we proactively seek to identify emerging financial crime risks. Together with the business, Line 2 FCC, and other risk teams across the Group, we work towards strengthening our financial crime processes, controls, and systems. Enhancing the overall framework that serves the best interest of the Group, our valued customers, and the wider community at large.

The Financial Crime Risk Advisory team delivers effective business and customer outcomes through the following risk services:

- Implementation and adherence to the Operational and Financial Crime Compliance & Compliance Risk Management Frameworks.
- Specialist advice, consultation and services to support the business in identifying, monitoring and managing its respective risks and controls.
- Build and support the embedding of strong risk capability and culture across Financial Crime Services.
- Risk governance and reporting
- Participation in Financial Crime committees across Line 1 and Line 2
- Review Policies, Standards and external Guidance
- Technology Risk Advisory for Financial Crime Platforms
- AUSTRAC onsite support and regulatory reviews
- AUSTRAC MI compliance oversight
- Risk in Change assessment in support of project and transformation activities across the FCS.
- Supplier risk assessment and governance.

**See yourself in our team**

The purpose of the role is to lead the team accountable for the strengthening and embedding of the risk and control environment for Financial Crime Operations (FCO), Quality Assurance (QA) and Strategy and Performance within FCS. You will lead a team of 3 Senior Managers and 11 Analysts focused on delivering high quality risk management services.

You will act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team across FCS, regarding strategic planning, emerging risks and risk maturity and play a key role in ensuring risk behaviours, processes and ongoing management and prevention become part of the ways of working across FCS.

Key to your success is your resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment that can be demanding due to its constant need to improve, and the dynamic response to change.

Your ability to lead a team and build relationships and work collaboratively with senior leaders, the broader FCS team, Line 2 FCC and Group Audit, is essential to your success.

This role will also lead the execution of strategic risk initiatives within the FCS to improve team effectiveness and performance, drive capability uplift activity and exemplify a strong and proactive risk culture.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Drive a strong, proactive risk and controls culture across our business stakeholders.
- Providing a strategic view to senior management of current and emerging risks across FCS, and the effectiveness of risk and compliance management. This includes communicating the ‘bigger picture’ as to how these risks are being managed across the Group.
- Being an active member of the Financial Crime Advisory Leadership team and the FCS extended leadership team and driving the risk agenda (including risk maturity, capability and culture) across FCS.
- Leading the oversight, monitoring and/or management of risks and controls.
- Assessing and making recommendations in relation to the management or acceptance of risk, processes or as part of business initiatives.
- Leading independent reviews/ deep dives within FCS to assess the effectiveness of risk management and to improve business process/ control design.
- Lead risk input into risk profiles and working with teams to ensure delivered risk impacts onto FCS are appropriately managed.
- Provide support to FCS in meeting compliance obligations and assisting management with interactions and reviews by regulators, including AUSTRAC onsite reviews and support in the managing of the AUSTRAC MI.

**Your skills and experience**:

- Financial Crime risk experience is essential
- Knowledge of Operational and Compliance Risk frameworks
- Influencing and consulting skills, the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to think critically and analytically and use data driven ins