Analyst - Financial Crime Analytics

**About the Role**
Here at BOQ Group we have been busy working behind the scenes building out our fastest-growing team - Group Risk - for an exciting and ambitious future-state.

You may have seen we have plenty of Risk-related roles to choose from. We are strengthening, simplifying, and digitising, whilst ensuring our foundations are in place. With foundation comes strength, and we are building strong and stable teams to work across our multi-branded business but most importantly, elevating our Risk culture - there is so much opportunity to contribute to the overarching frameworks and be paramount in supporting our transformation into a digital bank.

This Analyst - Financial Crime Analytics role is responsible for assisting, setting and monitoring the Group-wide data analytics requirements and approach in relation to transaction monitoring, screening, regulatory reporting, third party and employee due diligence methodologies and approach. You will contribute to leading practice for the capabilities noted above, as well as any other data-related initiatives, incidents, and issues, further engaging with other parts of the compliance function to help foster a data-focused AML culture within the Group.

Further responsibilities may include:

- Leveraging domain knowledge and analytical experience to provide Line 2 oversight and compliance to ensure the capabilities noted above are effectively implemented across the Line 1 Financial Crime Operations function (FCO).
- Working closely with FCO analytics capabilities to understand the proposed and in-flight data initiatives, incidents, issues etc and providing independent review, advice and challenge of those initiatives to ensure an industry leading data practice.
- Improving the quality and effectiveness of systems, processes and controls across FCO analytics to ensure compliance.
- Helping to foster an analytics-focused approach (including machine learning models) to managing financial crime risk and compliance across FCO.

**About you**

We operate in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment so we are seeking a highly strategic thinker who can problem-solve on the fly. Collaboration and partnership come naturally to you, where you aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, participating and promoting cooperative working relationships and behaviours across the organisation. As an outcome-driven professional you enjoy proactively communicating with the business to understand and reach their vision.

**About Us**
Bank of Queensland Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands providing a genuine alternative to Australian financial services customers and employees - with a true multi-brand proposition meaning our staff get to experience working across multiple brands all with their unique differences.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.

**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on: First Nations Reconcilation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**How to Apply**

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ02259