Senior Manager – Financial Crime Risk Analytics (Line 1)

ASB Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ASB is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Financial Crime Risk Analytics for the Corporate and Business Banking divisions in Auckland. You will architect and drive long-term data and insights, build advanced models, and enable data-driven decision making across Line 1 Financial Crime Risk.

You will partner with Compliance, Risk, and business units to translate regulatory requirements into scalable analytics solutions and mentor the analytics team to deliver robust, governable processes.

Qualifications

• Experience partnering with financial crime, compliance, risk and business stakeholders to translate regulatory and risk requirements into effective analytics solutions.
• Strong experience in data analytics, modelling and insight generation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, refinement and ongoing performance of financial crime models and analytics tools.
• Deliver advanced data analysis and insights to support risk monitoring and regulatory expectations.
• Translate complex requirements into practical, scalable analytics solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across data extraction, modelling and analytics approaches.
• Partner closely with Line 2, Financial Crime teams and broader stakeholders to drive aligned outcomes.
• Influence strategy and continuously improve analytics capability, tools and frameworks.
• Manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs in a complex, evolving environment.
• Mentor and uplift capability across the team.
• Robust, fit-for-purpose financial crime models and analytics.
• Clear, data-driven insights that inform decision making and risk management.
• Well-governed, documented and compliant analytics processes.
• Continuous improvement in financial crime analytics capability.

Skills

Financial Crime Analytics

SQL

SAS

Tableau

Power BI

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Modelling

Regulatory Knowledge

Communication

Tools

SQL

SAS

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Senior Manager – Financial Crime Risk Analytics (Line 1)

Corporate Banking & Business Banking | Auckland

At ASB, our purpose is to help customers get one step ahead. We’re seeking a Senior Manager – Financial Crime Risk Analytics to play a key role in building and leading long-term financial crime data and insights capability for our Business Banking and Corporate Banking divisions.

We’re looking for a senior analytics leader to shape and elevate ASB’s Financial Crime Risk capability across Business & Corporate Banking.

In this role, you’ll build and run long-term financial crime data and insights capability—leading the development of models, delivering actionable insights, and enabling smarter, data-driven decision making across Line 1 Financial Crime Risk.

• Lead the development, refinement and ongoing performance of financial crime models and analytics tools
• Deliver advanced data analysis and insights to support risk monitoring and regulatory expectations
• Translate complex requirements into practical, scalable analytics solutions
• Provide technical leadership across data extraction, modelling and analytics approaches
• Partner closely with Line 2, Financial Crime teams and broader stakeholders to drive aligned outcomes
• Influence strategy and continuously improve analytics capability, tools and frameworks
• Manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs in a complex, evolving environment
• Mentor and uplift capability across the team
• Robust, fit-for-purpose financial crime models and analytics
• Clear, data-driven insights that inform decision making and risk management
• Well-governed, documented and compliant analytics processes
• Continuous improvement in financial crime analytics capability

You’re a curious and outcome-driven analytics leader who thrives in complexity and brings:

• Experience partnering with financial crime, compliance, risk and business stakeholders to translate regulatory and risk requirements into effective analytics solutions.
• Understanding of financial crime typologies, customer risk assessment methodologies, transaction monitoring concepts, and emerging industry and regulatory trends
• Strong experience in data analytics, modelling and insight generation
• Advanced SQL, SAS or similar data capability
• Experience with visualisation tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Proven ability to lead, influence and mentor others

Te mahi ki ASB | Working for ASB

At ASB, we’re committed to helping our customers get one step ahead while creating a supportive, inclusive and high-performing environment for our people. You’ll be part of a team that values curiosity, courage, and continuous learning, with the opportunity to make a real impact on how we manage financial crime risk.

In return, you will work for an organisation that places huge importance and focus on its people, where the sky is the limit for development and career opportunities. ASB offers a fantastic working culture, a competitive package, great banking benefits, heaps of personal and career development opportunities, flexible working styles and great parental leave benefits. You will work in a successful and supportive team environment and be a part of the growth story that is ASB.

ASB is committed to fostering a culture where people are engaged, passionate and valued - living our values every day is integral to achieving our purpose.

To serve a diverse community, we need a diverse organisation. We encourage applicants from allbackgrounds who bring unique perspectives and thinking styles that add to the culture andperformance of our team.