Financial Crime Tech, Data & AI Consulting - Consultant to Director levels

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health and wellbeing benefits

Gym membership

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group is seeking professionals for its Financial Crime - Technology, Data & AI team in Australia. The role focuses on helping clients understand and manage financial crime risk with advanced data analytics and model validation skills.

You will work with specialists, executives, and directors to deliver AML/CTF, sanctions, and ABC projects, using SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms, while engaging stakeholders across diverse industries.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Australian AML/CTF, sanctions, ABC or fraud obligations in a client-facing role.
• Experience in data analytics, data science, or quantitative risk in a large organisation or consulting firm.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with hands-on transaction and customer data analysis.
• Experience evaluating or validating financial crime detection/monitoring platforms or cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Engage with client stakeholders and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with Risk Advisory and legal teams to address financial crime risk and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to multiple engagements through proposals, pre-engagement work, deliverables, workshops, and final reports.
• Support engagement lifecycle from scoping through billing across multiple projects.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analytics

Data science

Quantitative risk

AML/CTF knowledge

Client facing

Stakeholder management

Proposal / bid support

Billing experience

Job description

Description

Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand and is designed to provide risk expertise that complements Ashurst Perkins Coie's core legal services.

Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand and is designed to provide risk expertise that complements Ashurst Perkins Coie's core legal services.

We provide the opportunity to work with an expertise-led team that has been consistently growing since its inception, and is dedicated to collaboration, diversity, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around a flat, collaborative structure that offers everyone the opportunity to work closely with Directors, Partners and clients on engagements. This means you have on the job training with your leaders, direct involvement with business development, clear recognition for your performance, and greater career opportunities.

As a result of significant growth, we are open to hearing from the below levels who are interested in joining our Financial Crime - Technology, Data & AI team:

• Specialists (3 - 6 years' experience);
• Executives (6+ years' experience); and/or
• Directors.

You will be an integral member of a team delivering financial crime solutions for a variety of strategic clients across industry sectors.

You can expect to work closely with your colleagues in Risk Advisory and legal teams to support our clients to understand, manage and respond to financial crime risk and regulatory/legal requirements, delivering through a broad range of engagements.

Our technology, data and AI capability is the engine behind much of this work; building, testing, tuning, and validating the systems and models our clients rely on to detect financial crime, and finding better ways to do it.

Working with our lead partners, you will be a core part of a team who works with strategic clients across multiple sectors, particularly financial services, gaming, energy & resources, and government, on significant financial crime matters, specifically including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF), Economic and Trade Sanctions (Sanctions), Fraud/Scams and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC).

Our Risk Advisory division is made up of subject matter experts across multiple areas of risk expertise, yet we all collaborate closely to solve our clients' problems in the most holistic way possible. This allows you to not only build up your specialised expertise but also gain access to a broad range of expertise, clients, industries, and ways of working.

The day-to-day responsibilities of the role will vary depending on the level, however across all levels we are interested in hearing from you if:

• You have working familiarity of Australian AML/CTF, sanctions, ABC or fraud/scams obligations and contemporary regulatory expectations, in a client facing role within well-regarded consulting firm.
• You have experience either in data analytics, data science, or quantitative risk in a major organisation, or in a client-facing role within a well-respected consulting firm.
• You have strong SQL and Python, with hands-on analysis of transaction and customer data.
• You have experience assessing, tuning or independently validating one or more financial crime detection and screening platforms, or equivalent in-house capabilities built on modern cloud data platforms.
• You have sound written and sound presentation skills, with a focus on attention to detail.
• You have proven experience engaging with client stakeholders with the ability to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and to support the team in engagement with senior client stakeholders.
• You're passionate about collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team and have experience supporting multiple projects throughout their entire engagement lifecycle, including experience with proposals, pre- engagement activities, producing high quality deliverables, conducting stakeholder workshops, issuing final reports and billing.
• You're not afraid to have your own view and you approach challenging problems with both confidence and humility, while also embracing alternate viewpoints.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs