Senior Manager Financial Crime Advisory

Come and be part of our specialist Financial Crime Risk team. As we continue to enhance our capabilities, this is a unique opportunity to provide critical expertise, strategic thinking, and effective challenge to uplift the bank’s resilience against financial crime. We are currently recruiting a driven and experienced leader to join our Group Risk function. As a specialist in our Financial Crime Risk team, you’ll make an impact by:

• Shaping our financial crime defenses by providing clear, accurate, and robust advice and independent challenge to assigned business units across Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.
• Translating complex financial crime obligations into practical, actionable advice and guidance, ensuring our teams have the insights they need to protect the bank, our customers, and the community.
• Leading engagement on risk management by acting as the primary "front door" for Financial Crime Risk (FCR) with your assigned business areas guiding them through risk assessments, issue management, and remediation.
• Fostering a proactive risk culture and collaborating closely with peers across Financial Crime Risk, Operations, and broader Group Risk to drive our Financial Crime Risk Strategy forward.

The Senior Manager, Financial Crime Advisory reports directly to the Head of Financial Crime Advisory and Training.

In this pivotal leadership and specialist role, you will be at the forefront of protecting BEN from regulatory, reputational, and financial risks. Operating as a subject matter expert across the "Financial Crime Ecosystem" (including AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and FATCA/CRS), you will provide critical second-line oversight. You will lead engagement with assigned business segments which may include Consumer Banking, Business Banking, Agri-banking, UpBank, Technology, or Operations ensuring compliance and driving a high-performance risk culture.

Key accountabilities include:

• Advisory & Oversight: Proactively develop and deliver expert financial crime advice, interpreting complex legislative and policy requirements to guide assigned business units on their resulting obligations.
• Independent Challenge: Provide robust independent challenge and oversight regarding the effectiveness of BEN’s financial crime practices, controls, and risk-in-change activities.
• Risk Assessments & Issue Management: Lead engagement with business units on routine and ad-hoc financial crime risk assessments, as well as issue identification, escalation, remediation, and closure.
• Leadership: Lead the FCR Advisory function for your assigned businesses, driving talent and succession plans, providing coaching and feedback, and collaborating effectively across 1LoD, 2LoD, and 3LoD teams.
• Organizational Resilience: Support business continuity and scenario analysis efforts, helping the business minimize disruption and conduct Post Incident Reviews if financial crime incidents occur.

Essential

• Significant financial crime risk experience in the banking/financial services industry with deep, diverse knowledge of a bank's operations and financial crime environment.
• Deep subject matter expertise across key elements of the financial crime ecosystem (AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud, ABC, and/or FATCA/CRS).
• Proven leadership experience (Senior Manager level preferred) with a track record of driving a high-performance culture, developing talent, and managing direct reports.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the demonstrated ability to provide constructive challenge and drive change at all levels of seniority.
• Strong capability in managing Risk in Change, continuous improvement, and applying operational/organizational resilience principles.

Highly desirable

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field (e.g., Law, Finance, Business).
• Recognized Financial Crime Industry certifications (e.g., ACAMS, AFCS).

This is a permanent full-time position located in Melbourne, Bendigo, Adelaide, Sydney, or Brisbane.

We offer flexible work options that put our people first, working in a hybrid model with a minimum local Head Office attendance requirement determined by your Leader, to find a rhythm that works best for you and your team.

Please note, all internal candidates are required to notify their immediate leader when applying for a new career opportunity and you will be asked to acknowledge they have done so upon submission of your application.

For more information, check out the Application Process for Internal Candidates page.

Want big impact that matters? Here, you’ll know your work directly benefits the customers and communities we all serve. You’ll also get access to a great range of benefits, including:

• Flexibility means different things for different people. Whether it’s hybrid work, flexible hours, a compressed work week, job-sharing or something different, our flexible work options are designed to put people first.
• Health and wellbeing support, including discounted gym memberships, private health insurance options, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your immediate family members.
• Continuous Learning:

  Opportunities to take your learning to the next level through our corporate university ‘BEN U’ or at an external provider of your choice.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success and we actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity of thought to our business. We support candidate requests for adjustment to accommodate an illness, injury, or disability to equitably participate in the selection process.

Research suggests 60% of women and underrepresented groups might stop here, even after getting as far as drafting an application. We believe that diversity makes every team stronger, so even if you don’t tick every box, we still want to see your application!

We’re making better, bigger. And we’ll get there with you.

Now’s the time to set your sights even higher on the future you and the future career you deserve.