Financial Crime Intelligence and Analytics Specialist

HESTA; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional year-end leave

Professional development funding

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Competitive superannuation support

Job summary

HESTA in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Financial Crime Intelligence and Analytics Specialist to shape fraud and financial crime prevention. You will lead intelligence-led monitoring across AML/CTF and sanctions, developing analytics and dashboards to inform strategic risk decisions.

Reporting to Senior Manager - Financial Crime Strategy and collaborating with internal teams, you’ll identify threats, refine rulesets, and provide executive insights to strengthen controls and resilience for

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in financial crime intelligence, analytics or fraud risk within financial services.
• Expertise in AML/CTF, scams and monitoring frameworks.
• Advanced analytical capability with predictive and diagnostic analytics.
• Ability to translate data into executive reporting and insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead intelligence-led financial crime monitoring and analytics across fraud, AML/CTF and sanctions risk.
• Design and enhance monitoring, prevention and detection strategies.
• Deliver analytics, dashboards and board-level insights.
• Review monitoring effectiveness across internal and third-party operations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine transaction monitoring ruleset.
• Support investigations and provide SME input in forums.

Skills

Financial crime analytics

Fraud risk

AML/CTF

Stakeholder engagement

Executive reporting

Education

Tertiary qualifications in data analytics, technology, AI or related discipline

Tools

Fraud detection platforms

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Bring your authentic and passionate self to this exceptional role #careerswithimpact

At HESTA we’re driven by a clear purpose: improving the financial futures of our members. As we continue to strengthen our Financial Crime capability, we’re seeking an experienced Financial Crime Intelligence and Analytics Specialist to help shape the future of fraud and financial crime prevention and detection. This is an opportunity to apply advanced analytics, emerging technology and strategic insight to protect millions of Australians while influencing enterprise-wide risk outcomes.

In this specialist role, you’ll lead intelligence-led financial crime monitoring and analytics across fraud, scams, AML/CTF and sanctions risk. You’ll identify emerging threats, enhance detection strategies and deliver actionable insights that strengthen HESTA’s financial crime controls and operational resilience.

Reporting to the Senior Manager - Financial Crime Strategy and Operations and working closely with the Senior Financial Crime AI Strategy Specialist, Financial Crime Operations Lead, internal stakeholders and external partners, you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding our members, meeting regulatory obligations and driving continuous improvement across our financial crime ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Lead financial crime risk assessments to identify current and emerging threats.
• Design and enhance fraud and financial crime monitoring, prevention and detection strategies.
• Deliver intelligence analytics, develop dashboards, reporting and board-level insights.
• Review AML, sanctions, scams and fraud monitoring effectiveness across internal and third-party operations.
• Monitor third‑party performance and driving improved risk outcomes.
• Support major incident investigations and response activities.
• Provide SME expertise across internal forums and industry engagements.
• Work closely with the financial crime operations team to refine and optimise the transaction monitoring ruleset.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience in financial crime intelligence, analytics or fraud risk within superannuation or financial services.
• Expertise in fraud, AML/CTF, scams and financial crime monitoring frameworks.
• Advanced analytical capability, including predictive and diagnostic analytics.
• Experience translating complex data into meaningful business insights and executive reporting.
• Knowledge of AI, machine learning and emerging financial crime technologies.
• Experience working with fraud detection, RegTech and monitoring platforms.
• Strong understanding of Australian financial crime regulatory obligations.
• An analytical mindset - ability to translate and present complex data, insights and solutions.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in data analytics, technology, AI or a related discipline.

Benefits that matter and make a difference for our employees

• Leave for those moments that matter , an additional 6 days of leave at the end of year, up to 6 days paid volunteer leave, gender neutral paid parental leave of 20 weeks, Gender Affifation leave, reproductive health and wellbeing leave, Cultural and Ceremonial leave. Access your LSL after 3 years, take AL at half pay, and purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave (just to name a few).
• Your professional development matters , up to $5,000 per year professional development and up to 8 days professional development leave, HESTA scholarships and free access to a range of premium learning tools.
• Your health and wellbeing matters , free annual flu shots and skin checks, incredible social events throughout the year and a comprehensive employee assistance program available 24/7.
• Your financial wellbeing matters , up to 15% super, financial planning support, end of year payment for all Enterprise Agreement-covered employees, incentivised Employee Referral Program and novated lease options.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures and abilities. We welcome and support applications from First Nations people, physically, neuro or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, and people of any age. We are proud to be WGEA accredited as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equity.

We want all candidates to feel safe, included and provided with the best opportunity to thrive, if you require reasonable adjustments during your application or throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to a member of the Talent team [e-mail] and we’ll call you to discuss.