What you’ll be doing

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the Head of Compliance & AFC in the execution of the Sydney Branch AFC and Compliance Program, including responding to audits and managing non-compliance events, providing assistance and cooperation to identify necessary interventions
• Conduct CDD and OCDD (KYC) for Branch customers, as well as all screening and transaction monitoring activities
• Coordinate AFC and compliance reporting to to Head Office Compliance and AFC functions, including risk assessments
• Conduct second-line AFC and compliance monitoring and controls testing and track remediation actions to ensure timely issue resolution
• Provide compliance, AFC, and risk advisory support to business functions
• Maintenance of AFC and compliance registers and records on an ongoing basis
• Maintain statutory registers (e.g., insider lists, conflicts of interest) and prepare related reports and communications
• Deliver AFC and compliance training and awareness initiatives for branch staff.

Who we are looking for

We would be pleased to hear from you if you have:

• 5-10 years of experience in Compliance either in banks, financial institutions or local regulators
• University degree in law, finance and/or economics
• Understanding of the Australian or similar international regulatory environment and ability to research relevant regulations with providing advisory on the applicability within a given environment
• Knowledge of financial institutions, correspondent banking and trade finance products and services
• Ability to synthetize large volume of information and identify key issues, and to produce high quality work within challenging deadlines
• English proficiency
• Italian is a plus
• Comfort/familiarity with use of AI is a plus.