Financial Crime Compliance Manager

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Risk Management is responsible for developing and deploying the risk frameworks to allow the Group to take conscious exposures to credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks within a Board-approved appetite.

Risk Management ensures that the Group has appropriate strategies and frameworks in place to assess, manage and report on credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks.

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Financial Crime Compliance Detection (FCCD) is part of the Financial Crime Compliance team and is responsible for the maintenance of and enhancements to the Group's AML systems by way of data modelling and continual systems optimisation.

We are responsible for identifying regulatory red flags requiring transaction-monitoring controls, analysing financial crime data, implementing detection strategies that mitigate risk, and preventing financial crime.

We're interested in hearing from people who have

Please note that we're interested in hearing from people who might not meet all the following criteria. We're open to working with the right candidate to fill any skill gaps during your journey at CommBank

• Experience managing work relationships and business stakeholders preferred
• Knowledge and experience or interest in financial crime or risk management in financial services is highly regarded
• Understanding of the financial crime regulatory framework with knowledge of the AML / CTF, Sanctions and ABC risk environment will be valuable
• Experience in intelligence work, including information collection and development of intelligence reports
• Tertiary qualification in a degree which has an Engineering component preferred
• An understanding of coding and programming languages – exposure to one or more of the following VBA, SQL, Python, MATLAB, C or C++ - preferred but not essential
• SAS and SQL experience preferred but not essential

Your day-to-day responsibilities would include:

• Provide business support and advice
• Apply the Group's FCC framework and risk mitigation strategy and support the maturation of this framework
• Contribute to efforts to reduce the potential impact of current and emerging FCC risks on CBA customers, through a focus on high-risk customers and customer segments
• Contribute to strategic planning initiatives and execution of these strategies within FCC
• Contribute to Regulator relationship management Data analysis and intelligence activities as required
• Support the EM and Senior Manager in the execution of FCC objectives
• Reduce the potential impact of current and emerging FCC risks on CBA customers
• Recommend mitigating strategies and actively manage emerging events, ensuring strategies are implemented which effectively manage the associated risk
• Ensure that clear and concise documentation is produced
• Drive insights into trends and anomalies - including root cause analysis
• Lead stakeholder engagements and ensure that key tasks are defined, and the appropriate priority is assigned
• Work with the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit, Financial Crime Compliance, and relevant business units to understand and document Money Laundering related risks and controls
• Complete coverage assessment of money laundering risks, showing linkages between AML risks and the control environment
• Analyse data, assist line manager with technical and non-technical initiatives

Working with us

Whether you are passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we are driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

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