Senior Manager – Financial Crime Analytics

Madisonrecruitment; Auckland; On-site; NZD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Madisonrecruitment is seeking a senior Financial Crime Analytics professional for a large financial services organisation in Auckland. Lead the development and refinement of Financial Crime models, deliver advanced analysis and translate insights into strategic recommendations.

You'll work with large, complex datasets, partner across Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and the wider business, and provide technical leadership to strengthen analytics capability across the team.

Qualifications

• Senior analytics experience with complex data and models.
• Experience partnering with Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Financial Crime typologies, customer risk, monitoring.
• Understanding regulatory trends in Financial Crime.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and refinement of Financial Crime models across BAU and project initiatives.
• Apply data analytics, data science, statistical modelling and visualisation to complex Financial Crime challenges.
• Assess models, calculators and related analytics for effectiveness and fitness.
• Extract, manipulate and analyse large datasets to deliver insights and recommendations.
• Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical analytical solutions.
• Contribute to model assessment, planning and the longer-term direction of analytics tools and platforms.
• Build relationships across Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and the wider business.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to strengthen analytics capability.

Skills

Advanced analytics

SQL expertise

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Regulatory knowledge

Mathematics background

Education

Tertiary qualification in Mathematics/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

SQL / SAS

Tableau / Power BI

Job description

Join a large, established financial services organisation where your technical expertise can directly influence how Financial Crime risk is understood and managed across Business and Commercial Banking.

This senior role brings together advanced analytics, modelling, Financial Crime risk and regulatory requirements, with genuine scope to shape data-driven decision-making and strengthen long-term analytics capability.

The role

You’ll lead the development and refinement of Financial Crime models, deliver advanced analysis and insight, and make strategic and practical recommendations to improve Financial Crime Risk outcomes.

This is a senior position that remains close to the technical work. You’ll work with large, complex datasets while partnering across Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and the wider business. You’ll be equally comfortable getting into the detail and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of Financial Crime models across BAU and project initiatives


• Apply data analytics, data science, statistical modelling and visualisation to complex Financial Crime challenges


• Assess models, calculators and related analytics to ensure they remain effective and fit for purpose


• Extract, manipulate and analyse large datasets to deliver meaningful insights and recommendations


• Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical analytical solutions


• Contribute to model assessment, planning and the longer-term direction of analytics tools and platforms


• Build strong relationships across Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and the wider business


• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, helping strengthen analytics capability across the team

What You’ll Bring

• Senior-level analytics experience with strong technical capability across complex data and sophisticated models


• Experience partnering with Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and business stakeholders


• Sound knowledge of Financial Crime typologies, customer risk assessment and transaction monitoring


• An understanding of emerging Financial Crime regulatory and industry trends


• Advanced SQL or SAS expertise, or comparable technical capability


• Strong working knowledge of Tableau or Power BI


• The analytical judgement to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights


• Strong communication skills and the ability to make technical concepts accessible to non-technical stakeholders


• Confidence working through ambiguity, solving complex problems and managing competing priorities


• A tertiary qualification in Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, Statistics or a related discipline would be advantageous

Why Join?

• Work on complex Financial Crime challenges where your analysis can directly influence risk decision-making.


• Play a leading role in shaping Financial Crime models and broader analytics capability.


• Combine hands-on technical work with strategic influence and senior stakeholder engagement.


• Gain broad exposure across Business and Commercial Banking, Financial Crime, Compliance and Risk.


• Share your expertise through technical leadership and mentoring while helping build capability across the wider team.

This role will suit an experienced Financial Crime analytics professional who enjoys being close to the technical work but is ready to have greater influence over how analytics is used across a complex organisation.

If you enjoy solving complex problems, working with sophisticated data and turning analysis into recommendations people can act on, we want to hear from you.

To apply for this vacancy, you must be a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident, or already hold a valid visa that grants you the right to work in New Zealand.