Senior Manager – Compliance and Assurance, Financial Crime Risk
Sydney or Melbourne Location
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Financial Crime Risk (FCR) is a Group enterprise function which sits within the ERM division and provides expert advice and is accountable for the effective management of financial crime obligations and emerging risks across the AMP Group including AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud and Scams, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and foreign tax reporting (FATCA/CRS) domains
The Senior Manager - Compliance & Assurance, Financial Crime Risk leads the oversight, design and continuous uplift of AMP’s financial crime compliance and assurance framework, ensuring obligations are clearly defined, traceable and effectively embedded across the enterprise.
Operating as a senior Second Line of Defence (2LoD) specialist, the role provides independent oversight, challenge and risk‑based assurance to Line 1 across obligations management, control effectiveness, financial crime incidents and issue remediation. It ensures compliance risks are proactively identified, assessed and managed through structured assurance and evidence‑based insights.
The role is responsible for delivering the Financial Crime Compliance Plan, obligations traceability framework and enterprise-wide assurance activities, including control testing and thematic reviews. It identifies control weaknesses, compliance gaps and emerging risks, and drives timely escalation, remediation and sustainable improvements.
It also oversees breach and incident management and ensures accurate, regulator‑defensible reporting and attestations, including AUSTRAC obligations.
As a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the role supports regulatory engagement, governance forums and strategic risk priorities, strengthening AMP’s control environment, regulatory credibility and ability to manage financial crime risk in a disciplined and consistent way.
How will you make an impact
Compliance Planning & Obligations Management
- Lead the design and uplift of Financial Crime compliance plans and obligations frameworks across AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud & Scams, ABC, FATCA/CRS and Modern Slavery
- Ensure obligations are clearly defined and mapped to processes, controls, ownership and assurance, with strong governance and RACI clarity
- Oversee regulatory and business change to maintain risk-based frameworks embedded into BAU control environments
Act as a senior compliance advisor supporting the Head of Risk, Financial Crime and key governance forums
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Assurance & Control Testing
- Design and deliver risk-based assurance and control testing as a 2LoD specialist, assessing design and operating effectiveness across Line 1 and Line 2
- Lead thematic reviews to identify control gaps, weaknesses and emerging risks, providing clear and actionable insights
- Deliver high-quality assurance reporting with consistent outcomes, ratings and recommendations
Drive continuous improvement in assurance methodologies, including data and analytics, aligned to Internal Audit and control functions
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Issue, Breach & Remediation Management
- Provide 2LoD oversight and challenge of Financial Crime incidents, breaches and issues, ensuring regulator-defensible outcomes
- Review root cause and remediation plans, track progress, validate closure and challenge timeliness and sustainability
Ensure escalation of material issues to governance forums and regulators, maintaining oversight of systemic risks and trends
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Regulatory Reporting & Attestations
- Oversee Financial Crime regulatory reporting and attestations, including AUSTRAC and FATCA/CRS, ensuring accuracy, completeness and defensibility
- Maintain oversight of reporting obligations, timelines and dependencies
Provide clear compliance assessments to senior stakeholders and governance forums
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Governance & Reporting
- Deliver clear reporting across FCCC, Risk Committees and Board forums, articulating risk exposure, control effectiveness and material issues
- Provide assurance insights, thematic findings and emerging risk perspectives to inform decision-making and regulatory engagement
Support AMLCO and enterprise reporting, translating regulatory change into practical business insights
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What you will bring to the role
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, Assurance, Audit or Governance within complex financial services, regulatory or consulting environments
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a Second Line of Defence (2LoD) environment
- Excellent experience across banking and/or wealth, with enterprise Financial Crime frameworks
- Proven expertise in control assurance, testing, thematic reviews, and assessing design and operating effectiveness
- Experience managing compliance obligations, regulatory reporting and assurance activities, including remediation outcomes
- Strong understanding of Financial Crime obligations across AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud, ABC and FATCA/CRS, and applying 2LoD principles (oversight, challenge and escalation)
- Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical, testable control frameworks
- Experience engaging with regulators, tracking regulatory change and supporting regulatory responses
- Degree in Law, Business, Commerce, Finance, Risk or a related discipline
Postgraduate or professional certifications (e.g. CAMS, ICA) desirable
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Who you are
You bring deep technical expertise in Financial Crime Compliance as a Second Line of Defence (2LoD) specialist, with strong knowledge across AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and FATCA/CRS. You have hands-on experience designing obligations frameworks, assurance methodologies and control testing (including thematic reviews and attestations), alongside strong regulatory knowledge across governance and accountability. You can translate complex requirements into practical, risk-aligned and testable control frameworks.
You take ownership of end-to-end delivery, balancing competing priorities while ensuring outputs are high quality and regulator defensible. You provide constructive challenge to Line 1 while maintaining 2LoD independence, and are confident navigating governance forums, assurance activities and issue escalation.
You bring excellent judgement and executive presence, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide credible challenge on complex Financial Crime matters. You communicate complex risk issues clearly and concisely, including at senior stakeholder and governance forum level, and are confident preparing board- and committee-ready materials.
If you would like to receive the full job description, please contact [email protected]. To ensure a consistent and streamlined recruitment process, applications should be submitted via the LinkedIn link only.
Why we think you’ll love working at AMP
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If you’re someone who sees opportunity where others see challenge, come and work with us in smart, progressive ways as we transform an iconic Australian brand for the future. And, through a series of career-defining moments, create your own tomorrow.
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