Financial Economic Crime

**About us**

Rabobank is the world's leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.

**About the role**

The Manager Compliance, Financial Economic Crime is responsible for providing in depth technical knowledge and expertise in relation to the Financial Economic Crime (FEC) compliance requirements driven from local legislation (AU and NZ) and Group Policy requirements (based on European and Global legislation). Specifically, the role covers the regulatory areas of Anti Money Laundering (AML)/ Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Sanctions and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)/ Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Comprehension of anti-bribery and corruption legislation is also desirable.

The Manager is responsible for supporting the Head of Financial Economic Crime in driving and executing our strategy to ensure a robust framework and control environment is in place to mitigate and manage the Bank's exposure to FEC related risks.

The role will be required to act as the Compliance Subject Matter Expert (SME) on FEC related projects, support control and process remediation projects, provide technical advisory support on escalated matters and incident investigations, monitoring and impact assess regulatory change, as required.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**:

- Supporting the Head of FEC with the execution of the FEC framework and policy strategy and activities, ensuring compliance with obligations and a robust risk and control framework is implemented effectively and operating.
- Manage and communicate compliance issues brought by changes to (FEC related) legislation and other regulatory requirements across Australia and New Zealand or relevant other jurisdictions by providing briefings/ updates to management and staff.
- Assist in ensuring compliance with requirements of laws, regulations and industry standards.
- Act as the FEC SME providing consultancy to projects affecting Australia and New Zealand products and processes to ensure compliance requirements are adequately assessed and controls put in place.
- Assist with the input and completion of relevant / required reports to Boards, Committees, Group, Management and Business Units as required.
- Assist with managing the methodology and implementation of ML/TF risk assessments across customers, products, channels and jurisdiction.
- Provide input and guidance to Group Policies and standards as well as undertaking gap analysis with the business when updates to new policies and standards are issued, including review of the local AML/CTF Program.
- Act as an SME to support investigations into escalated incidents and breaches, analysing results, reporting and follow up on remedial action.
- Act as an SME to provide advisory support to the Business advisory LCO compliance teams (in AU and NZ) for escalated enquiries.
- Act as an SME to provide input into the development, and occasional delivery, of FEC-related compliance training.

**To be successful in the role, you will have**:

- Bachelor of Commerce/ Economics/ Business/ Laws or relevant industry qualification or proven solid banking and finance expertise.
- AML/CTF qualifications such as CAMS, ICA or equivalent
- Compliance and / or Risk Management experience gained within the Financial Services Industry, primarily in risk and compliance related areas.
- Demonstrated expertise in risk and control practices.
- In depth understanding of financial economic crime compliance requirements and practices in the Australian and New Zealand financial services sector, gained through previous experience in this area.
- Solid understanding of Australian and New Zealand regulatory environment and requirements.

**Our Values, Vision and Mission**

Rabobank Australia fully embraces inclusion and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here. We are committed to our values; we are client focussed, action oriented, purposeful and courageous in our work. We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are.

**What we're proud to offer you**:

- Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development.
- An inclusive Parental Leave policy that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (Primary carer up-to 14 weeks paid leave)
- We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough At Rabobank we provide