Associate Director

**Join KPMG's nationally recognised Financial Crime team and play a pivotal role in helping Australia's leading organisations combat criminal and illicit activity.**

As an Associate Director in the KPMG Financial Crime team, you will:

- Work within a National team that has extensive experience supporting organisations with their financial crime risk, compliance and transformation
- Increase your profile and experience by working with leading organisations in Australia that provide a vital role in the prevention, detection and deterrence of criminal and illicit activity
- Work across all parts of the financial crime framework and operating model, gaining valuable insight into Know-Your-Customer (KYC)/Customer Due Diligence (CDD), identity authentication, transaction monitoring, customer screening, sanctions and regulatory reporting (IFTIs, TTRs, and SMRs)
- Manage the delivery of complex financial crime projects, including leading teams with combined capabilities and managing stakeholder relationships
- Drive the growth of the Financial Crime team by leading teams to develop innovative offerings, strategic relationship building, and thought leadership publications
- Form and develop key sector relationships with clients and industry participants to share and understand financial crime insights and sector knowledge
- Provide and present expert advice to our clients to enhance the effectiveness of efforts to combat financial crime
- Develop personally and professionally through KPMG's development programmes and externally accredited programmes
- Conduct detailed analysis of financial crime compliance policies, procedures and data
- Oversee the drafting of reports and presentation material for the senior management of our clients to help them understand and effectively mitigate their financial crime risks
- Manage the development of financial crime proposals by understanding client requirements, strategic objectives and preparing fit-for-purpose proposal scopes

**How are you extraordinary?**
- You recognise the vital role financial crime risk management plays in the prevention, detection and deterrence of criminal and illicit activity
- You are a specialist in financial crime risk management and passionate about the sharing of ideas, inspiring, and creating change
- You are able to digest, distil, and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal forms
- You are passionate about growing your knowledge and experience in financial crime risk management
- You are able to quickly build strong relationships and network with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external
- You are a kind and compassionate leader with a passion for continually growing your leadership skills to get the best out of a diverse and multidisciplinary team

**Your Experience**

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and 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 or Sanctions) with a large professional consulting environment, a financial institution, or a regulatory/law enforcement agency
- Ability to talk in 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
- Ability to confidently deliver high impact presentations and communications to a range of stakeholders
- Demonstrated prior experience in writing concise and high impact reports for business executives
- Strong attention to detail, and ability to handle and analyse complex information
- Knowledge and experience working in and with the financial or regulated sector
- 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
- Proven capability to develop project scopes, budgets, and timelines that are tailored to client objectives
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage your time across multiple projects concurrently
- Proven leadership, people and stakeholder management capabilities, including the ability to lead a team to deliver large scale financial crime projects on time and on budget

**Qualifications**

We are looking for applicants that have Tertiary qualifications in law, international relations, consulting, financial crime risk management or other relevant business related academic background.

**Benefits**
- Flexitime
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme

**Additional Information**

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer