Partner - Risk Assessments (Financial Crime

**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 Partner - Risk Assessments within our Financial Crime Compliance team, you will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and continually refining relevant risk assessment methodologies to ensure BOQ Group has an accurate and up to date understanding of its ML/TF risks, in relation to:

- Enterprise Risk Assessments
- Customer Risk Assessments
- Product Risk Assessments
- Channel Risk Assessments
- Jurisdiction Risk Assessments

Through engaging with other parts of our Compliance function and the wider Group, you will ensure that risk assessments are completed on time and to a high degree of quality, as well as ensure risk assessment frameworks, policies, and processes are well embedded within the business. As Partner, you will also both establishing and lead appropriate governance forums to oversee risk assessment methodology design throughout the business.

**About you**
Your success in this role will rely on your advanced knowledge and understanding of best practice AML/CTF risk assessment methodology design, implementation and governance, and regulatory obligations and expectations regarding risk assessments. You will have ideally had previous exposure to experience utilizing risk assessments tool and systems, ideally within a banking or professional services environment.

You will also have the following skills and capabilities:

- Ability to set, monitor and revise risk assessment methodologies.
- Ability to establish and run governance and oversight mechanisms in relation to risk assessments.
- Ability to communicate, influence and persuade key stakeholders, including to complete risk assessments to a high degree of quality.
- Dedication to continuous improvement and learning.
- High attention to detail.
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet tight deadlines.

**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.

Since 2021 BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

**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 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: BOQ02126