Senior Manager, Financial Crime Risk & Compliance

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Economic Crime Risk (ECR) team is seeking a senior compliance advisory professional in Sydney. This permanent role combines strategic advisory on AML/CTF, sanctions, and anti-bribery with hands-on risk assessment and control design.

You will partner with stakeholders across the Bank to uplift processes and strengthen regulatory alignment. Hybrid working, exposure to senior leaders, and opportunities to drive continuous improvement across KYC, transaction

Qualifications

• Significant experience in compliance advisory, AML/CTF or Fraud and Scam processes including Transaction Monitoring and Customer Onboarding and Customer Due Diligence.
• Thorough understanding of the financial crime regulatory framework with practical knowledge of AML/CTF requirements.
• Sound knowledge of Transaction Monitoring and Investigation processes and Customer Onboarding journeys.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with proven ability to influence large senior stakeholder groups to support investment decisions.
• Demonstrated strong judgement and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience uplifting capability, driving change and leading continuous improvement initiatives through to implementation.
• Tertiary qualification or related certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the execution of economic crime risk strategy and the implementation of new processes to support AML/CTF reform.
• Support internal stakeholders across the Group to identify, manage and mitigate economic crime risks.
• Provide quality advice to uplift processes for KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations and Customer Due Diligence.
• Participate in risk assessments and forums as required.
• Assist the business to develop and execute action plans addressing economic crime issues.
• Develop controls and training to ensure compliance with the Group's economic crime policy framework.
• Review the effectiveness of existing controls.
• Collaborate with other ECR teams and provide support as required.
• Forge strong relationships with the Economic Crime Risk community and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Compliance advisory

AML/CTF

Fraud and Scam

Transaction Monitoring

Customer Onboarding

Customer Due Diligence

Stakeholder management

Change management

Regulatory engagement

Education

Tertiary qualification in business/finance/law

ACAMS (desirable)

Job description

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Economic Crime Risk (ECR) team is seeking a senior compliance advisory professional in Sydney. This permanent role combines strategic advisory on AML/CTF, sanctions, and anti-bribery with hands-on risk assessment and control design.

You will partner with stakeholders across the Bank to uplift processes and strengthen regulatory alignment. Hybrid working, exposure to senior leaders, and opportunities to drive continuous improvement across KYC, transaction