Associate Director, Financial Crime
1 day ago
- Join an organisation that has been proudly recognised certified as a 2025 Great Place to Work for five consecutive years
- Hybrid work environment
- Play an impactful role in Australian exports and interests
Export Finance Australia provide financial expertise and solutions to drive sustainable growth. Through our loans, bonds, guarantees and project and structured finance solutions, we enable small and medium-sized enterprises, corporates and governments to take on export-related opportunities. We also support infrastructure development in the Pacific region and beyond.
The Associate Director, Financial Crime is a diverse and hands on role assisting the Risk & Compliance Financial Crime team with risk management across AML/CTF, sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and related areas to support compliance and enable further business growth.
YOUR NEW ROLE
Location: Sydney
Role Type: Full-time, Permanent
- Support the Director, Financial Crime (AML/CTF Compliance Officer) with the delivery of all AML/CTF Program, Sanctions, ABC and related policy requirements, including implementing AML/CTF regulatory reform and framework enhancements.
- Financial Crime team contact point for the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP), including responding to customer and transaction escalations and supporting ongoing engagement.
- Manage Transaction Risk Assessment (including KYC) and ongoing monitoring queries and escalations from business units, focused on policy advice and higher risk assessments including advice on mitigants for financial crime issues.
- Review and update policies and procedures, developing and updating risk assessments and supporting testing and assurance activities across all financial crime areas.
- Prepare data and ongoing regulatory reporting requirements and assist with Board and Executive reporting.
- Deliver financial crime related training to business units.
ABOUT YOU
- 8-10 years' experience in financial crime risk and compliance related roles across financial service, legal or government sectors.
- Degree qualified in Commerce, Law or other relevant technical discipline.
- Preferred AML/CTF or financial crime compliance qualification (e.g. ACAMS).
- Extensive experience with KYC and financial crime risk management systems and tools.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to forge and manage internal and external relationships.
- Ability to work autonomously and effectively in a small, highly intra-dependent team within a broader EFA team environment.
- Australian citizenship and ability to obtain Government Security clearance to the required level.
Even if you haven't ticked every box but this role resonates with you, don't rule yourself out just yet, we'd love to hear from you
OUR BENEFITS & CULTURE
We are small enough to have an impact, BIG enough to make a world of difference and it starts with our people.
We support flexible working and pride ourselves in fostering a culture that is inclusive, diverse and collaborative. We are proud to be certified as a 2025 Great Place to Work for a fifth consecutive year, recognised on the 2023 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list and listed as one of Australia's Best Workplaces for Women in 2025.
In line with our commitment to our people, we have a comprehensive array of benefits available to our employees:
- Generous leave provisions (e.g. Annual Wellbeing day) & leave purchase opportunities
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary care givers
- Thorough induction onboarding program
- Fitness Passport along with other Health & Wellbeing initiatives
- Gender affirmation leave
- Income Protection Insurance
- Community volunteering
- and many more
Our headquarters is based in Sydney CBD, and we have a national presence across Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
ELIGIBILITY
Australian Citizenship
- To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants
must
hold Australian Citizenship at the time of application.
Security Clearance
- To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants
must
be able to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
SOUND LIKE YOU? APPLY
Applications close: 13 October 2025
Interviews will occur in parallel, so please apply ASAP.
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We invite and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with disability and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
ABOUT EXPORT FINANCE AUSTRALIA
Export Finance Australia is Australia's export credit agency.
We provide finance to support Australian export trade and overseas infrastructure development across the Pacific and Indo-Pacific. Through our loans, bonds and guarantees, we support businesses – from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large corporates – foreign governments and infrastructure projects, to take on the world.
Working with banks, other government agencies and our partners, together we are helping drive international success for Australian businesses.
The reason our people join us, stay with us and grow with us is because they wholeheartedly believe in our purpose. They can see the impact we create for our customers.
We are a highly purpose-driven organisation. We seek to create an inclusive culture that values our customers and employees. Our people are expected to champion this and play a key role in achieving those outcomes. In working towards our strategy, our people display our IMPACT leadership behaviours of Frank & Fearless, Dexterous & Agile and Careful & Diligent
For more information about us, please refer to our website.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered on this occasion.
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