Associate Director Strategic Risk Assessments

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Location**: NSW- Sydney CBD, NSW- Sydney inner, 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 Strategic Risk Assessments.

In this role you will create, implement and refine NAB's financial crime risk assessment framework to:

- Support NAB to identify, understand, mitigate and manage financial crime risks
- Support NAB and its customers to grow safely

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Execute NAB's financial crime risk assessment framework, including:

- Design, execution and/or ongoing maintenance of NAB Group's Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment
- Ensure NAB's enterprise-wide risk assessment framework meets regulatory requirements in Australia and overseas
- Support NAB acquisitions and alignment of risk assessments
- Support the execution of NAB's Remediation Action Plan and response to the AUSTRAC-NAB Enforceable Undertaking
- Lead and contribute to innovation and transformation across the business, specifically focused on the redesign, redevelopment and implementation of risk assessments for the enterprise by:

- Identifying and executing opportunities to harness insights from data, intelligence, and guidance to refine and optimise NAB's risk assessment capability
- Identify opportunities to reduces impacts to customers and NAB business units
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support the implementation of risk assessment methodologies across the enterprise.

**What you will bring**:

- Professional experience working in a risk, compliance or assurance environment, preferably within financial services with a focus on financial crime risk assessment.
- Proven history in delivering strategic initiatives or transformation that positively change and drive business performance in a sustainable and safe manner.
- Demonstrated leadership in risk assessment development, including leading staff and building their knowledge and expertise.
- Strong risk management experience.
- Professional and sound judgement, particularly providing insights and conclusions for senior decision making.
- Analytical, lateral-thinking and decision-making skills, including the ability to analyse and interpret data.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate simply and with influence.
- Working knowledge of financial crime regulatory environment locally and globally (including AML/CTF, sanctions and/or anti-bribery & corruption).
- Ability to manage competing priorities and escalations and build effective relationships with key stakeholders.

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

At NAB, we are 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 is 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 job sharing 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**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.