Manager - Financial Crime (Forensic Risk)

**Join KPMG's nationally recognised Financial Crime team where you'll play a vital role in helping Australia's leading organisations combat money laundering, fraud, and financial crime through innovative risk management solutions.**
- Transforming their financial crime functions by optimising existing processes and systems and adopting new technologies to detect and prevent financial crime
- Identifying, managing and mitigating risk associated with financial crime
- Conducting assurance, reviewing and assessing compliance in order to support their compliance with regulatory requirements

**Your Opportunity**

As a Manager in the Financial Crime team, you will:

- Work within a National team that has deep 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
- Take a lead role in the scoping, execution, and delivery of financial crime advisory, review and remediation projects
- Lead the development of financial crime proposals to meet client requirements and strategic objectives
- Deliver financial crime prevention and detection services to top-tier clients across advisory, implementation and operations
- Execute on complex financial crime advisory matters whilst providing excellent stakeholder management, quality and risk awareness and team development
- Work across all parts of the financial crime framework and operating model, gaining valuable insight into Know-Your-Customer (KYC)/Customer Due Diligence (CDD), identify authentication, transaction monitoring, customer screening, sanctions and regulatory reporting (IFTIs, TTRs, and SMRs)
- Manage complex financial crime projects, including liaising with clients and managing junior resources
- Provide expert advice to our clients to enhance the effectiveness of their 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
- Lead work streams, working closely with other KPMG departments supporting financial crime risk management where applicable
- Have opportunities to develop personally and professionally through KPMG's development programs and externally accredited programs
- Support the continued growth of the Financial Crime team by contributing to team management, the development of innovative offerings, relationship building, and thought leadership publications

**How are you extraordinary?**
- You are passionate about the importance of fantastic communication to share ideas, inspire, and create change. You are able to digest, distil, and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal forms.
- You recognise the vital role financial crime risk management plays in the prevention, detection and deterrence of criminal and illicit activity.
- 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 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 4 years' experience in financial crime (AML/CTF or Sanctions) with a large professional consulting environment, a financial or regulated institution, or a regulatory/law enforcement agency
- Excellent expertise and understanding of Australian AML/CTF or sanctions regulatory regime or industry best practice
- Strong attention to detail and ability to handle and analyse financial information
- 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
- Knowledge and experience working in and with the financial or regulated sector
- Proven leadership, people and stakeholder management capabilities, including the ability to lead a team to deliver projects on time and on budget
- Ability to develop strong client relations and is proactive in deepening those relationships
- Application of innovative and creative techniques in suggesting and implementing process improvem