About the Role
Lead complex financial crime work that helps organisations strengthen trust, respond to risk, and build more effective prevention and detection programs. This role involves shaping advisory work, overseeing implementation activity, or guiding operate-style engagements with a focus on quality, practicality, and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Shape financial crime strategy, transformation, and operations for major organisations navigating AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, and scams risk.
- Build relationships through in-person connection across teams and clients, balancing work and life.
- Lead engagements that help clients improve how they identify, manage, and respond to financial crime risk.
- Scope projects, manage budgets and timelines, and lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Develop clear recommendations, practical actions, and high-quality deliverables.
- Contribute to proposals and develop senior relationships.
- Coach team members and build eminence in a specialist area through thought leadership and market engagement.
Requirements
- 8+ years' experience in financial crime from consulting, industry, regulation, or law enforcement.
- Deep capability in one or more of AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, or scams.
- Experience leading complex advisory, implementation, or operational financial crime engagements.
- Strong knowledge of financial crime data and technology, including transaction monitoring, customer screening, or risk systems.
- Experience uplifting, optimizing, or managing financial crime programs or operational teams.
- Strong experience managing teams in transaction monitoring, data analysis, or data science projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including with senior technical and non-technical audiences.
- A track record of developing commercial opportunities, proposals, or senior client relationships.
- Working rights in Australia as a Permanent Resident or Australian Citizen.
Skills
- AML/CTF
- Sanctions
- Fraud
- Scams
- Transaction monitoring
- Customer screening
- Risk systems
- Data analysis
- Data science
- Data model design
- Data preparation/ETL build
- Model development, implementation, documentation
- Model/rule/scenario validation & optimization
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- In-person connection
- Flexible working options
Experience Level
- Director
- 8+ years' experience
Benefits
- Retail discounts
- Wellbeing leave
- Paid volunteering days
- Twelve flexible working options
- Market-leading parental leave
- Return to work support package
About the Company
- Deloitte Forensic is a market-leading practice in Australia, bringing together professionals from consulting, law enforcement, regulation, operations, data analytics, technology, and legal backgrounds to help clients navigate complex financial crime challenges.
- The Financial Crime team works across advisory, implementation, and operate-style engagements for local, regional, and global organisations, supporting critical work across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, and scams.
- At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work.
- We're always learning, innovating, and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society.
- We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction.
- We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues.
- We help you live and work well.
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
- We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles.
- What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.
