Job Description

You area senior program leader who thrives on complex, enterprise-wide transformation.

We arereshaping how financial crime is detected, managed, and prevented.

Together, wecandeliver the next generation of risk and technology capability at CommBank.

Do Work That Matters:

At CommBank, Financial Crime Services (FCS) is on a mission to relentlessly pursue the elimination of financial crime, protecting our customers, communities, and the integrity of the financial system.

Operating across Financial Crime Operations, Risk Advisory, Quality Assurance, and Domain teams, FCS delivers critical capabilities spanning Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Intelligence, Investigations, and Operations.

To stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats, we are transforming our environment by embedding data, automation, advanced analytics, and AI into how financial crime is detected and managed across the Group.

See Yourself in the Team:

This role sits within the Risk Strategic Portfolio, Enterprise Risk, which is the delivery engine for the Group’s most critical risk transformation initiatives.

You will report to the GM, leading program delivery across Financial Crime, with a dotted line into Corporate Technology. This ensures strong alignment between risk transformation and the platforms, data, and engineering capabilities that enable it.

You willoperateacrossa highly complexenterprise ecosystem, partnering with:

• Financial Crime Operations, a global shared service running investigations and compliance

• Risk and Compliance teams across the Group

• Corporate Technology teams delivering platforms

• Data and AI capability teams

• Senior executives across all three lines of accountability

This is a true business and technology transformation role, where you will bridge strategy, delivery, and engineering capability to uplift Financial Crime at scale.

Your Impact and Contribution:

As an Executive Program Delivery Lead, you will lead large-scale, enterprise Financial Crime transformation programs (c. $20M+), shaping how the Bank detects and prevents financial crime through modern platforms and intelligence-led models.

You will help evolve core Financial Crime Operations, including investigations, monitoring, and sanctions; strengthen risk governance, controls, and regulatory compliance; and enable transformation through data, automation, and AI-driven capability.

You will be accountable for delivering programs that sit at the intersection of risk strategy, operational transformation, technology, and platform delivery.

On any given day, you can expect to:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex Financial Crime and Risk transformation programs

• Define delivery strategies across business, risk, and Corporate Technology stakeholders

• Partner with technology leaders to align risk initiatives with platform, data, and engineering roadmaps

• Engage senior executives to drive alignment, prioritisation, and delivery outcomes

• Establish strong governance across program financials, risks, and delivery performance

• Develop and secure business cases to support investment in transformational initiatives

• Drive cross-functional alignment across Risk, Financial Crime, Technology, and Operations

Your Skills & Experience:

You are an accomplished program leader with experience delivering large-scale, technology-enabled transformation within complex, regulated environments.

With strong stakeholder influence and a deep understanding of risk, data, and operational change, you bring the capability to drive impactful outcomes at enterprise scale. To this role, you will bring:

• Experience with owned end to end customer journey's

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale programs ($20M+) across business and technology ​

• Strong technical competence and experience in technology-enabled transformation, ideally within banking, risk, or regulated environments

• Confidenceoperatingacross both business and Corporate Technology domains

• Proven ability to engage and influence Executive and Group Executive stakeholders

• Deepexpertisein program governance, delivery, and risk management

• The ability to thrive in complex, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

Nice to have:

• Experience in Financial Crime, Risk, or Compliance transformation

• Exposure to AML/CTF, sanctions, or regulatory programs

• Experience delivering data, analytics, AI, or platform modernisation initiatives

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Advertising End Date: 28/05/2026