Manager, Financial Crime Data Analytics

BOQ Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangement

Discounted financial products

Salary sacrificing options

Paid parental leave

Additional annual leave purchase

Discounted private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee network groups access

Job summary

BOQ Group is seeking an experienced analytics leader to join the Financial Crime Operations team as Manager, Financial Crime Data Analytics in Sydney. You will guide day-to-day analytics, turning complex data into practical insights to support decision-making across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, and scams.

You will lead the analytics team, driving reports, dashboards, risk assessments and remediation analytics, while collaborating with compliance, risk, data and technology to strengthen controls

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading analytics in financial crime/risk.
• Experience across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, KYC/CDD.
• Strong data governance and remediation analytics background.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day Financial Crime analytics capability and deliver actionable insights across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud and scams.
• Develop and lead dashboards, reports, trend analyses and data-risk assessments.
• Oversee rule/model testing, tuning and monitoring, and remediation support.
• Build and mentor a high-performing analytics team,-setting priorities and quality standards.

Skills

SQL

SAS Enterprise Guide

Power BI

Excel

Python

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Tools

SAS Enterprise Guide

Power BI

Excel

Job description

About The Role

We’re looking for an experienced analytics leader to join our Financial Crime Operations team as Manager, Financial Crime Data Analytics. This is a newly created role where you'll lead our day-to-day Financial Crime analytics capability, turning complex data into clear, meaningful insights that support decision-making across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud and scams. You'll work closely with Financial Crime Operations, Compliance, Risk, Data and Technology, helping strengthen controls, identify emerging risks and support regulatory and remediation outcomes. You'll lead a mix of operational reporting, dashboards, trend and thematic analysis, data-risk assessments and deeper analytical work across customer, transaction, payment, alert, screening and case data. You'll also support remediation activity, regulatory commitments and detection effectiveness, including rule and model testing, tuning and monitoring. Just as importantly, you'll lead and develop a specialist analytics team, setting clear priorities and quality standards while creating an environment where people are encouraged to be curious, challenge assumptions and follow the data.

About You

You – our preferred candidate is an experienced analytics leader who enjoys making sense of complex problems and turning data into practical insights people can act on. You bring strong technical capability alongside a good understanding of Financial Crime risk and can communicate confidently with operational, technical, risk and senior stakeholders. You'll have significant experience across data analytics, Financial Crime, risk analytics, remediation, data governance or a related banking environment, along with experience leading analytical teams. Exposure across areas such as AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud and scams, KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, screening or regulatory reporting will be important. You are across working with large and complex datasets, with advanced SQL skills and experience using tools such as SAS Enterprise Guide, Power BI and Excel. Python or another analytical language would be highly regarded, particularly where you've used it for automation, modelling or reproducible analytics. Most importantly, you're curious, evidence-led and comfortable asking the right questions when something doesn't quite add up. You're able to balance technical rigour with practical outcomes, openly communicate limitations in the data and create clear, useful insights that support better decisions. As a leader, you're collaborative and inclusive, and genuinely enjoy building capability in the people around you.

About Us

BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose - to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees. Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal - to build social capital through banking. That's creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities. BOQ Group's inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve. In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.

Our perks

At BOQ Group, we are passionate about creating an exceptional work environment that nurtures both your professional and personal growth.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangement - Balance your work and personal life with ease.
• Discounted financial products - Enjoy exclusive rates on our financial services across the Group.
• Salary sacrificing options - Maximise your take-home pay with our salary packaging options.
• Paid parental leave with no minimum requirements - Spend quality time with your new family member without any worries.
• Purchase additional annual leave - Need more time off? You can buy extra leave days.
• Discounted private health insurance plan - Take care of your health with our special rates.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Access confidential support for personal and professional challenges for you and your family
• Access to employee network groups - Connect with peers through our First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers, and accessibility groups.
• Pride in Diversity membership: We are proud members of Pride in Diversity and actively participate in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Join us and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and community!