Associate Director, Strategy

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Region**: VIC- Melbourne CBD
- **Outstanding opportunity to build and progress your career**:

- **Be recognised as a leader, empowered to deliver and succeed**:

- **Use your passion to drive positive outcomes for our customers**

**A career that gives you more**

Your career at NAB is about more than money, it's about serving our customers well and helping our communities prosper. We currently have an exciting permanent opportunity for an Associate Director, Strategy & Engagement.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the development and delivery of NAB’s financial crime mitigation strategy and for engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and industry bodies.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Working with the GMLRO, the Executive Strategy & Operations and the Head of Strategy & Engagement to support the implementation and delivery of NAB’s financial crime strategy and key initiatives.
- Facilitating the creation and delivery of a strategic engagement approach for FCRM with external stakeholders including government agencies, regulators, and industry bodies.
- Supporting and oversighting NAB’s responses to requests for information from government agencies, regulators and industry bodies.
- Working as a key enabler to raise colleague awareness of financial crime risk and building a robust financial crime risk mitigation culture across the Enterprise.

**What you will bring**:
To be successful in this role you will have a genuine interest in advancing financial crime risk mitigation. You will demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills, enabling you to engage with and build trust with key stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes; you possess excellent strategic thinking, analytical and critical thinking skills, with ability to draw conclusions, generate ideas and solutions, and resolve complex problems.

**You will also have**:

- Effective engagement and influencing skills; ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders (including to a senior level) to deliver outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to convey complex ideas simply, clearly, and concisely.
- Demonstrable experience and capability writing Board, Executive and Committee level papers.
- Strong planning and project management skills, focused on delivering high quality outcomes and adding value to the business.
- A motivated self-starter, able to work autonomously and in a team, and balance multiple priorities and deliver to a high standard in a fast -paced, demanding environment. A strong work ethic and high attention to detail are essential.
- Minimum 5 years relevant professional experience which could include: strategy, investment planning, change management, policy and business advisory, government and regulatory affairs, legal, financial services or a financial crime related industry.
- Tertiary or post graduate qualifications preferred but not essential, contingent on the depth of relevant professional experience.
- Prior experience in strategy/risk/financial crime/regulatory engagement/legal roles are valued.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone**

At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

**More focus on you**

We are committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. For more information, please click here.

**Join NAB**

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