This role requires excellent analytical skills to help strengthen our ability to prevent money laundering and other financial crime, as well as our broader regulatory reporting obligations.
The successful candidate will work across numerous data sets to identify trends and improvement opportunities. This will involve learning the key regulatory obligations in relation to payments. It also working with onshore and offshore operational teams, account management teams and local/global IT teams as well as regulatory bodies (eg AUSTRAC). They will learn about the fundamental concepts around what it means to be a bank in Australia and the regulatory environment that underpins day-to-day activity.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate accountability, attention to detail as well as strong problem solving and data analytics capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Understand key concepts of regulation around payments in Australia
• Analyse data sets to identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and strengthen straight through processing capability. This will include drafting BRDs and procedures.
• Collaborate with internal teams (such as Operations, Compliance, Operational Risk etc.) to enhance regulatory reporting processes and existing control framework

• Work closely with relevant stakeholders (internal and external) to enhance the quality of reporting data and ensure compliance with reporting standards

  What is required for you to succeed?

• Strong data analytics capabilities and excellent written and verbal communication skills

• A high level understanding of the financial services, particularly in relation to the role played by global custodians
• Ability to demonstrate an awareness of the Australian superannuation market and the key players within it
• An interest in the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing and associated regulatory obligations
• Practical experience with analytics through any of the industry standard tools and an ability to demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and VBA and Power BI

  Desired knowledge, skill, experience

• Technical knowledge of cash payments, including SWIFT message types and ISO20022, HCVS

• Awareness of the local regulatory environment within AML/CTF and associated IFTI reporting

• Understand key concepts of regulation around payments in Australia
• Analyse data sets to identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and strengthen straight through processing capability. This will include drafting BRDs and procedures.
• Collaborate with internal teams (such as Operations, Compliance, Operational Risk etc.) to enhance regulatory reporting processes and existing control framework
• Work closely with relevant stakeholders (internal and external) to enhance the quality of reporting data and ensure compliance with reporting standard