Advisor - Operations, 3rd Party & Employee

**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 digitizing, 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.

As an Advisor within our Financial Crime Compliance team, you will support the Senior Partner to set BOQ Group-wide requirements in relation to third party and employee due diligence methodologies. Reporting directly to the Senior Partner - Operations, 3rd Party & Employee, you’ll provide support on Line 2 risk oversight and review to ensure that requirements are effectively implemented across our Group Operations division.

Through engaging with other parts of our Compliance function, you will also help ensure that Compliance initiatives, such as frameworks, policies, and processes, are effectively designed, communicated, implemented, and embedded within the business.

**About you**
Your success in this role will rely on your understanding of financial crime compliance obligations and industry practice, including understanding of the AML/CTF Act and AUSTRAC guidance.

You will also have some experience working in and supporting financial services and banking businesses, ideally including exposure to businesses where 3rd parties are used.

You will also have the following skills and capabilities:

- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
- The ability to have constructive, open, and transparent conversations and relationships with stakeholders.
- Some knowledge of risk and control methodologies, control design, and testing of effectiveness.
- Skills to pinpoint areas requiring further analysis and attention, ensuring a pragmatic and robust approach to compliance overall.

**About Us**
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion 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**
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- BUPA Corporate Plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- A ‘zero tolerance’ to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) with active support for employees experiencing DFV
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on; First Nations Reconciliation 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: BOQ02110