Senior AML/CTF Compliance Manager

Stake Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development allowance

Parental leave

Childcare allowance

Wellbeing support

Leave swap days

Discretionary performance bonus

Discounts on Stake products

Job summary

Stake Australia is seeking a Senior AML/CTF Compliance Manager to lead the growth and maturation of our AML/CTF program within the Risk & Compliance team in Sydney. The role is hands-on yet strategic, ensuring robust controls across the business and guiding automation and AI use to improve efficiency while maintaining governance.

You will partner with product, technology, and operations to embed practical, scalable compliance and work with regulators and leadership to build a trusted financial

Qualifications

• Led AML/CTF or broader financial crime programs within financial services or fintech and enjoy building as much as maintaining.
• You're comfortable operating as a strategic advisor while staying close to the detail when it matters.
• You know how to balance strong risk management with commercial thinking, helping teams move quickly without losing sight of customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Stake's AML/CTF program to be scalable across Australia and NZ.
• Lead regulatory change responses by translating obligations into practical improvements.
• Embed strong controls with Product, Technology, Operations and senior leadership.

Job description

About Stake

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior AML/CTF Compliance Manager to join our Risk & Compliance team in Sydney.

Financial crime is a critical part of building trust. As Stake continues to grow across Australia and New Zealand, you'll lead the evolution of our AML/CTF program, ensuring it's robust, scalable and ready for what's next. You'll be our appointed AML/CTF Compliance Officer, helping the business navigate an evolving regulatory landscape while enabling us to move quickly with confidence.

This is a hands-on leadership role with broad influence across the business. You'll work closely with Product, Technology, Operations, Legal and senior leadership to embed practical, effective controls into the way we build and operate. You'll also play a key role in shaping how automation and AI help us deliver stronger outcomes with greater efficiency.

You'll join a high-performing team that values ownership, sound judgement and clear thinking. You'll have the opportunity to influence strategy, strengthen our financial crime capability and help building a compliance program that's designed for scale. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like

• Build an AML/CTF program that's trusted by regulators, scalable for growth and embedded across the business.
• Lead Stake's response to regulatory change, turning new obligations into practical improvements that strengthen our controls.
• Shape how financial crime risk is managed across new products, markets and customer experiences, enabling innovation without compromising risk outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Technology and Operations to design controls that feel seamless for customers and practical for teams.
• Lift the capability of the business by making complex regulatory requirements easy to understand and act on.
• Use automation and AI to reduce manual effort across the financial crime program while maintaining strong governance and oversight.
• Build trusted relationships with regulators, executives and the Board through clear communication, thoughtful advice and high-quality reporting.
• Develop a high-performing financial crime function that continuously raises the bar as Stake grows.

You’ll thrive here if

• You've led AML/CTF or broader financial crime programs within financial services or fintech and enjoy building as much as maintaining.
• You're comfortable operating as a strategic advisor while staying close to the detail when it matters.
• You know how to balance strong risk management with commercial thinking, helping teams move quickly without losing sight of customer outcomes.
• You're an exceptional communicator who can translate complex regulatory requirements into practical decisions across the business.
• You're excited by the opportunity to use technology, automation and AI to improve how compliance operates.
• You thrive in fast-moving environments where ownership is high, priorities evolve and every person has meaningful impact.

Bonus if you've ever

• Acted as, or deputised for, an appointed AML/CTF Compliance Officer.
• Led an independent AML/CTF review or regulatory remediation program.
• Worked across both Australian and New Zealand AML/CTF frameworks.
• Built financial crime capabilities within a scaling fintech or high-growth technology business.

Benefits of working at Stake

You'll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks. Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake (https://hellostake.com/au/careers) program.

• Professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Wellbeing support
• Annual leave swap days
• Discretionary performance bonus
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account