Financial Crime Analyst

**Company Description**
Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

**Closing date: 10th September 2025**

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support more than two million members, with around $100 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

**This role will contribute to managing financial crime risks and regulatory compliance obligations at Rest.**

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
- ** Investigate, resolve and respond to financial crime escalations received from the fund administrator or across Rest (i.e. Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening, ATO SuperMatch and UARs)**:

- **Gather and record required evidence to support any reasonable grounds for suspicion of money laundering, organised crime or terrorism financing activities and articulate key recommendations**:

- **Escalate potential regulatory reporting matters and potential breaches (as required) to the AML/CTF compliance officer**:

- **Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies and fraud trends, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends**:

- **Deliver financial crime training and education especially on identification and reporting of unusual activity**:

- **Deliver timely reporting of potential suspicious AML/CTF matters to the AML Compliance lease specify**:

- **Manage financial crime enquiries and escalations
**Qualifications**
- Tertiary education in relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Further relevant postgraduate qualifications are highly regarded (e.g. AML/CTF, ACAMS, fraud, investigations, criminology, accounting,**finance, business, law, IT).

Required experience, understanding or credentials **including**:
- Familiarity with process mapping and modelling techniques.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to collect, study and interpret complex data.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.
- Strong communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate process changes and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels
- Experience and/or understanding of financial crime risks across the financial services industry, including AML/CTF, Fraud and Corruption

**Additional Information**
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

- Personal and professional development opportunities
- ** Hybrid working**:

- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Linkedin Learning
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)
- ** Rest Stops - meeting free breaks**
- Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best. _

**Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.**
- _Funds under management as at 31 July 2025. Rest is recognised as a _Responsible Investment Leader_ by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022._