Financial Crime Operations

**Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Fakalofa lahi atu, Bula Vinaka and Namaste**

When you bring your unique skills and fresh perspective to ASB's financial crime team, you're not just taking on a new role with a fantastic benefits and wellbeing package along with opportunities to grow and develop your career - you're helping protect people. From spotting patterns to solving puzzles, every action you take moves us closer to a safer future.

As a member of ASB's Financial Crime team you will help protect ASB and its customers from the impact of Financial Crime. You will contribute in a meaningful way to the protection of Aotearoa New Zealand from organised crime, modern slavery, extreme right-wing groups, and other activity which places New Zealand at risk.

We have a number of Team Leader positions across all of our Financial Crime teams at ASB. These positions are critical in the management of financial crime to comply with Anti Money Laundering (AML) / Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) legislation, obligations and ASB regulatory requirements.

**Mo te tūranga** | **About the Role**:
As a team leader you will be primarily responsible for leading a team by managing day to day workflows and use of resources to address volumes in relation to various financial crime activities, taking into account SLA's, risk appetite, thresholds, and legislative deadlines.

You will also:

- Personally develop, promote and role model strong risk behaviours by understanding the risks of your business, and identifying, managing and escalating risks where appropriate
- The end-to-end management of financial crime, detection, monitoring, assessment, investigation, and remediation for ASB regulatory requirements
- Obtaining positive outcomes for customers, and ensuring customer centricity is at the forefront of all planning and process activity
- Managing compliance and operational risk including maintaining an effective control environment and risk buydown
- Growing and developing your people talent leading to better customer and bank outcomes
- Ensure SOPs are in place for all work streams and updated to reflect changes in our business processes. Regulatory requirements are to be adhered to in all our operations, this is achieved by analysing and investigating efficiency, workflow and rework data, documentation, and liaising with internal and external customers.

**Mōu |About you**:
First and foremost, you are passionate about Financial Crime, have a naturally inquisitive and investigative mind, and have strong attention to detail and decision-making skills. You thrive in a fast pace environment, feel comfortable questioning things which don't seem quite right, and are able to articulate risk as it relates to financial crime. You will be committed to delivering unbeatable customer outcomes, be able to build credibility with your team, and be pro-active and confident in your ability to manage your day.
- 5+ years' experience working within the financial services industry in either a Compliance or Financial Crime Operations environment.
- Degree or equivalent in finance or similar relevant field preferred
- Displayed commitment to quality customer service
- Operational knowledge of ASB internal systems (if internal), policies and products and ability to adapt to change
- Ability to lead a small to medium sized team, preferably within a Financial Crime Operations environment.

**He aha tā mātou | What can we offer?**

We offer a competitive salary, great banking benefits, heaps of personal and career development opportunities, flexible working styles, banking and parental benefits.

We have a warm culture of caring people who all jump in to innovate and support each other. Our people grow their mindsets, learn, evolve, and utilise their skills while being empowered to make decisions.

At ASB, we are committed to our vision and values of Ngākau Pono (Integrity), Manaakitanga (Caring), Awata (Passion), Māia (Courage) and Kāpuia (United). Our strength comes from caring about our people, our customers, our community, and environment.

Finally, we offer a variety of challenges and exposure throughout ASB Bank in a large-scale environment, filled with passionate people, focussed on delivering world-class software and infrastructure services that help our customers.

**Me pēhea te tono | How to apply?**

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**Job details**:

- Reference #- 158907- Posted on- 27 Nov 2024- Location(s)- Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington- Expertise- AML- Work type(s)- Full Time- no document Application closes on 22 Dec 2024 21:00