As our business grows, so does our Compliance Team! We are currently hiring a Senior Compliance Analyst to join our ANZ Financial Crime Management team.

You will be joining and helping lead a team that executes a number of critical processes that support Afterpay’s financial crime management systems. These processes are critical to ensuring Afterpay meets its regulatory obligations as well as preventing and disrupting financial crime.

The Financial Crime Management team is part of the Afterpay Global Compliance function.  

This is a permanent and full time position, reporting through to the Senior Manager,  Financial Crime Management, ANZ.

You will:

• Support team leaders in managing an operational team of compliance analysts and/or performing specialised tasks to support effective operational management and delivery - e.g. quality assurance; management information reporting; processes and guidelines
• Using a variety of third party and proprietary systems and workflows, you will assist team leaders with supervising teams that are assigned to one or more of our critical financial crime management processes, namely:  merchant monitoring ensuring compliance with specialised technology and adherence to Afterpay merchant contracts and the Merchant Category policy; watchlist management screening; enhanced customer due diligence; transaction monitoring and suspicious matter reporting / suspicious activity reporting (SMR/SAR)
• Develop and maintain our workflow resourcing plan, including consideration of business growth, cyclical changes and making sure that our resourcing needs against those plans are fulfilled
• Provide management with qualitative insights on team performance, identifying and communicating key trends and outlooks
• As an independent process and subject matter expert, perform quality assurance checks on the key workflows, provide feedback to the Compliance Specialistsand report on results to Management
• Prepare regular reporting on key financial crime metrics daily, monthly or as otherwise required
• Provide support with our PEP/Sanctions screening systems with periodic screening activities
• Provide support reviewing Transaction Monitoring rules and testing

You have:

• Operational experience from working in high growth technology environments, preferably retail financial services or payments
• The ability to context switch whilst working on various projects and tasks such as new product launches, writing procedural documentation and assisting with external audit requirements
• A demonstrated ability to meet operational targets and deadlines
  • You are familiar with both quality and quantity-related metrics 
• The ability to clearly articulate your investigative reasonings in your writing 
• A desire to collaborate with diversely talented team members
• A desire to learn and further develop your skillsets
• A passion for preventing and disrupting financial crime

Even better:

• A professional membership with ACAMS, an equivalent industry body or other tertiary qualifications in the area of financial crime, fraud risk management or compliance

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

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