Job Description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Manager, Financial Crime Surveillance Institutional Banking.

What’s the role?

This is an opportunity to take the next step in your career and lead critical financial crime surveillance operations supporting Westpac’s institutional banking business.

As Senior Manager, Financial Crime Surveillance, you’ll lead multiple specialist teams within our Institutional banking including transaction monitoring, unusual matter reporting, customer risk decisioning, correspondent banking due diligence, and our Singapore transaction monitoring and screening team.

This permanent role offers a hybrid working arrangement and can be based in Parramatta, Adelaide, Melbourne or Singapore. You’ll focus on creating strong risk outcomes while supporting your people to do their best work. That means setting clear direction, improving processes, embedding regulatory expectations, and driving a culture of continuous improvement.

You’ll work closely with divisional partners and Group Financial Crime teams, helping deliver consistent, high quality customer outcomes while strengthening the first line of defence.

What do I need?

• Proven experience leading financial crime or AML/CTF operations, ideally within institutional or complex banking environments (essential)
• Strong people leadership capability, including managing specialist teams and driving performance (essential)
• Sound knowledge of transaction monitoring, customer risk decisioning, and correspondent banking due diligence (desirable)
• Understanding of financial crime typologies relevant to institutional banking products (e.g. trade finance, FX, corporate lending) (desirable)
• Strong knowledge of financial crime regulations, compliance obligations, and risk management frameworks
• Ability to use business metrics and KPIs to manage operations, drive efficiency, and support continuous improvement

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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