Manager Financial Crime Consumer and Group Functions

12-month Max Term Sydney based preferred, open to Melbourne and Brisbane – flexible working options Excellent opportunity to join Westpac’s Financial Crime team. How will I help? A 12-month max term opportunity has arisen for a Second Line of Defence Financial Crime specialist or Compliance professional to provide SME oversight of Financial Crime risks across Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (AB&C), Foreign Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and Common Reporting Standards (CRS) across Consumer and Group Functions divisions. You will be responsible for performing oversight of key financial crime risks and obligations in alignment with the approved oversight and monitoring plan, ensuring adherence to the Financial Crime Risk Framework. You will perform oversight and tracking of financial crime risk against Risk Appetite, including review of Division/Lines of Business risk profiles and demonstrate the ‘voice of risk’ through oversight of financial crime risk and control assessment results and thematic reviews. Other key responsibilities will include: Influencing and driving compliance with all relevant Financial Crime regulatory requirements and standards across the Consumer and Group Functions Divisions, including completing risk and compliance assessments and providing financial crime SME risk support to projects as necessary. Supporting the Consumer and Group Functions Divisions with identifying systemic issues and implication of control failures, ensuring appropriate recording on the Group’s risk and compliance management system. Partnering with stakeholders across the Group including the Business Units, Risk, Compliance, Operations and Legal community to support the build and maintenance of end-to-end Financial Crime risk management solutions. Contributing to preparing Divisional AML/CTF reports, including Risk Committee and Board papers, and advising senior management in the event of any major issues. What’s in it for me? You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled. What do I need? To be successful in this role you will have 3 years’ financial crime, operational risk, governance, assurance or other related experience derived from roles within either banking/consultancy/legal or government. You will have strong business partnering skills and be able to create partnerships with stakeholders to achieve mutual objectives and strategy. You will have a strong customer focus and provide an end-to-end customer experience be able to meet the customers expectations and needs where appropriate. You will have strong initiative and remain proactive and take prompt action to accomplish goals. In addition to this you will have: Operational awareness and be attentive to the opportunities and threats to the organisation. Great teamwork. You can relate with others in their team to achieve the work group’s goals over time. Results orientation. You continuously work towards the goal with high levels of effort to achieve it. The ability to understand your own strengths, development areas, and take action to continually improve. Superior written communication skills and demonstrated experience in leading the production of professional corporate reports. What’s it like to work there? We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between. We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow. As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion. Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us. How do I apply? Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button. At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email westpac.com.au . Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process? We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please email westpac.com.au

Location: The Rocks, AU

Posted Date: 2/1/2025