Senior Manager, Financial Crime Compliance

ASB Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

ASB Bank in Auckland seeks an experienced financial crime leader to join our Financial Crime Compliance team. You’ll provide expert advice, oversight and challenge across our risk framework to protect customers and the financial system.

In this senior leadership role, you will lead and coach the team, partner with stakeholders across the business, assess AML/CFT, sanctions and anti-bribery risks, and drive controls design and effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in compliance, risk management or audit.
• In-depth knowledge of financial crime risks and regulatory requirements.
• Experience assessing controls and advising on regulatory change.
• Leadership experience managing change through direct reports.
• Ability to build credible relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Positive, pragmatic leadership style with integrity and empathy.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist financial crime advice across business projects and change initiatives
• Identify and assess risks across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, foreign tax and anti-tax evasion
• Assess the design and operational effectiveness of key controls, identifying gaps and opportunities to strengthen the control environment
• Provide insight and constructive challenge on financial crime issues and incidents
• Support the embedding of regulatory obligations and policy requirements within ASB’s Risk Management Framework
• Build strong relationships across the business, working closely with Line 1 teams, industry peers and relevant working groups
• Lead, coach and develop team members, building capability and supporting strong performance
• Help mitigate the risk of ASB’s products, channels and services being used for money laundering or terrorist financing purposes

Skills

Compliance

Risk management

Audit

Financial crime

Controls assessment

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Integrity

Job description

Help protect ASB, our customers and the wider financial system by providing expert advice, oversight and challenge across our financial crime risk framework.

We’re looking for an experienced financial crime professional to join our Financial Crime Compliance team. You’ll partner with stakeholders across ASB to ensure regulatory obligations are understood, embedded and effectively managed, while helping the business identify and mitigate financial crime risks.

Te tūranga | The role

In This Senior Leadership Role, You Will

• Provide specialist financial crime advice across business projects and change initiatives
• Identify and assess risks across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, foreign tax and anti-tax evasion
• Assess the design and operational effectiveness of key controls, identifying gaps and opportunities to strengthen the control environment
• Provide insight and constructive challenge on financial crime issues and incidents
• Support the embedding of regulatory obligations and policy requirements within ASB’s Risk Management Framework
• Build strong relationships across the business, working closely with Line 1 teams, industry peers and relevant working groups
• Lead, coach and develop team members, building capability and supporting strong performance
• Help mitigate the risk of ASB’s products, channels and services being used for money laundering or terrorist financing purposes

Ō pūkenga | About you

You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in compliance, risk management or audit
• In-depth knowledge of financial crime risks, financial services legislation and regulatory requirements
• Experience assessing controls and providing advice on complex business or regulatory change
• Leadership experience, including managing material change through direct reports
• A proven ability to build credible relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical information clearly
• A positive and pragmatic leadership style, supported by integrity and empathy

He aha tā mātou | Why join us?

This is an opportunity to influence how financial crime risks are understood and managed across ASB. You’ll work on complex, meaningful issues, support significant change initiatives and help strengthen the controls that protect ASB and our customers.

At ASB, our values are more than just words. They guide how we work together, how we show up for our customers and communities, and how we shape the future of ASB.

• Kia Manaaki | Care – Care is about lifting our people, customers and communities to reach their potential.
• Kia Māia | Courage – Courage is about doing the right thing, even when it feels hard.
• Kia Mahira | Curiosity – Curiosity is about better decision‑making and applying judgement before we act.

We offer flexible ways of working, opportunities to deepen your expertise and a culture where you can bring your whole self to work.