Financial Crime Executive Manager

Talent Corp; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Corp is recruiting for a leading financial services client to fill an Executive Manager, Financial Crime role in Sydney. You will challenge established approaches, strengthen assessment methodologies and drive data-informed outcomes across risk and compliance.

The role requires deep financial crime expertise, institutional banking experience, and the ability to lead governance frameworks, uplift risk assessments, and partner with risk, legal, technology and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant financial crime experience within banking, with institutional or wholesale banking experience essential.
• Strong Line 2 experience providing financial crime advice, oversight and effective challenge.
• Demonstrated experience developing or enhancing financial crime risk assessment methodologies and frameworks.
• A strong understanding of inherent risk, control effectiveness and residual risk assessment.
• Experience supporting regulatory change, financial crime transformation or strategic capability uplift.

Responsibilities

• Enhance financial crime risk assessment methodologies, standards, guidance and governance frameworks.
• Drive strategic uplift initiatives supporting evolving money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing risk assessment requirements.
• Apply institutional banking expertise to improve assessments across complex products, customers and business activities.
• Partner with Financial Crime, Risk, Legal, Technology and business stakeholders to strengthen assessment quality and consistency.

Skills

Financial crime experience

Line 2 experience

Risk assessment methodologies

Inherent/residual risk understanding

Regulatory change experience

Job description

Talent is recruiting for our leading financial services client, seeking an Executive Manager, Financial Crime.

Bringing deep financial crime expertise and institutional banking experience, you will challenge established approaches, strengthen assessment methodologies and drive more insightful, data-informed outcomes.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Enhance financial crime risk assessment methodologies, standards, guidance and governance frameworks
• Drive strategic uplift initiatives supporting evolving money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing risk assessment requirements
• Apply institutional banking expertise to improve assessments across complex products, customers and business activities
• Partner with Financial Crime, Risk, Legal, Technology and business stakeholders to strengthen assessment quality and consistency

To be successful in this role:

• Significant financial crime experience within banking, with institutional or wholesale banking experience essential
• Strong Line 2 experience providing financial crime advice, oversight and effective challenge
• Demonstrated experience developing or enhancing financial crime risk assessment methodologies and frameworks
• A strong understanding of inherent risk, control effectiveness and residual risk assessment
• Experience supporting regulatory change, financial crime transformation or strategic capability uplift