Senior Specialist - Financial Crime

About the Company
Davidson is partnering with a leading organisation within the financial services sector to appoint an experienced Senior Specialist - Financial Crime. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing risk and compliance function, playing a key role in protecting the organisation from financial crime risks while ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations.

About the Role
As a Senior Specialist - Financial Crime, you will support the Financial Crime Shared Services team in identifying, assessing and mitigating financial crime risks across the organisation. Working within a collaborative and fast-paced environment, you will be responsible for conducting investigations, due diligence activities and monitoring processes that help safeguard the organisation's integrity, assets and customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conduct Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) and KYC refresh activities
• Complete customer risk assessments, name screening and transaction monitoring reviews
• Deliver high-quality investigative outcomes with clear documentation and defensible decision-making
• Escalate suspicious matters in line with regulatory and compliance obligations
• Perform quality assurance reviews and assess control effectiveness across financial crime processes
• Contribute to management reporting by providing insights into investigation volumes, turnaround times, trends and control performance
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across financial crime frameworks, processes and controls
• Collaborate with stakeholders to strengthen risk management practices and governance outcomes
• Assist in maintaining efficient end-to-end operational processes within the Financial Crime function

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Proven experience in Financial Crime, AML/CTF, Fraud or a related risk and compliance discipline
• Strong knowledge of AML/CTF legislation, regulatory requirements and financial crime frameworks
• Experience conducting investigations, due diligence reviews and transaction monitoring activities
• Sound understanding of financial crime typologies, money laundering and terrorism financing risks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with excellent attention to detail
• Proven ability to make risk-based decisions and communicate findings effectively
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build credibility across the business
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• A continuous improvement mindset and commitment to operational excellence

The Benefits

• Opportunity to work within a highly regarded financial crime and risk management function
• Collaborative and supportive team environment
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Initial 6 month contract
• Sydney based role - $580-680 per day including superannuation

Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you have the relevant experience listed above and require further information, please contact Tara Gearon at tara.gearon@davidsonwp.com quoting reference JN -062026-43586. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com