Description:
Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
We are seeking a self-motivated, adaptable, and detail-oriented Financial Crime Consultant to join us in our Financial Crime Team based in our Melbourne office.
As the Financial Crime Consultant, you will be responsible for monitoring the organisation’s financial crime detection systems to assess alerts and identify potential money laundering, terrorism financing and financial crime events. This includes maintaining accurate, comprehensive and timely records of all investigations/cases in line with organisational and regulatory expectations.
You will work closely with the Financial Crime Manager and AML Compliance Officer to maintain Program compliance including all financial crime monitoring activities such as customer, employee and supplier screening, transaction monitoring, Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD), investigations and sanctions compliance.
About You
The successful candidate will have experience within a Financial Crime role with a proven ability to clearly present and articulate risk positions, reviews and/or recommendations. You will also have:
- An understanding of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regulations, global sanctions law and compliance risk management principles.
- Ability to clearly present and articulate risk positions, reviews and/or recommendations to the AML/CTF Compliance Officer and other key stakeholders
- The ability to facilitate workshops, deliver presentations, prepare reports, papers and high-level correspondence.
- Strong analytical skills to organise and verify information across multiple, complex data sets.
- A strong understanding of Excel is essential. (SQL or database management would be an advantage but is not required).
- Familiarity with financial crime detection tools would be an advantage, such as\: Thomson Reuters World Check, Case Management Tools and Financial Transaction Monitoring Systems.
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills, including ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
- AML/CTF industry certifications are preferred, but not essential.
- Bachelor’s degree or tertiary level education in Law, Commerce, Information Systems, Criminology or a related field is preferred, but not essential.
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
- We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
- We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
- We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
- We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
- We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
- We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.