We’ve never been ‘just a bank’. Just like you should never be ‘just an employee’. We’re united in our belief that in banking, better can be bigger, and together we’re making it happen.

It starts here. With Bendigo Bank… and you.

Come and be part of our specialist Financial Crime Risk team. As we continue to enhance our capabilities, this is a unique opportunity to provide critical expertise, strategic thinking, and technical leadership to uplift the bank’s resilience against financial crime. We are currently recruiting a driven and experienced professional to join our Group Risk function.

As a Manager in our Financial Crime Solutions team, you’ll make an impact by

• Driving innovation in our detection systems, leveraging data analytics, AI, and automation to continuously improve the Bank’s ability to mitigate financial crime risk.
• Shaping our defences against financial crime by leading the strategic design and oversight of technology, data analytics, and transaction monitoring frameworks.
• Providing subject matter expertise on financial crime solutions, helping to identify, design, and implement advanced technology to detect, deter, and disrupt financial crime.
• Collaborating across the business with Technology, Operations, and Data teams to deliver robust, fit-for-purpose financial crime solutions across the Bank.

About the role

The Manager, Financial Crime Solutions reports to the Head of Financial Crime Solutions. In this pivotal specialist role, you will be at the forefront of protecting the Bank from regulatory, reputational, and financial risks by developing and maintaining robust financial crime solutions. As a subject matter expert, you will be instrumental in the strategic design, implementation, and oversight of technology, data analytics, and operational frameworks to combat financial crime. A key focus will be driving the evergreen assessment of existing and potential solutions to enhance our screening and detection systems.

Key accountabilities include

• Financial Crime Solutions: Assist with the identification, design, and oversight of financial crime technology implementation, recommending new strategies to create greater efficiencies and perfected outcomes.
• Data & Analytics: Help design and implement a financial crime data and analytics strategy, driving continuous improvement through the advanced use of data, analytics, automation, and AI.
• Screening and Detection Systems: Support the ever-evolving assessment of financial crime solutions to enhance screening and detection systems, including the development of monitoring rules, scenarios, and processes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with Technology, Operations, Data functions, and other Group Risk teams to deliver fit-for-purpose financial crime solutions across the Bank.

What you’ll bring to the role

Essential

• Extensive financial crime experience in the banking industry with a deep knowledge of a bank’s financial crime environment.
• Considerable experience in the design, implementation, and maintenance of financial crime solutions, including data, analytics, AI, transaction monitoring, and systems oversight.
• Proven data mining, exploratory data analysis skills, and experience with Oracle and SQL.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships at all levels of the business.

Highly desirable

• Skills in Python and knowledge of big data tools like R, PowerBI, Tableau, or graph databases.
• Experience with commonly used Financial Crime Risk Systems (e.g., NetReveal, RSA).
• A tertiary qualification in a relevant field and/or a Financial Crime Industry qualification (e.g., ACAMS, AFCS).

This is a permanent full-time position located in Melbourne, Bendigo, Adelaide, Sydney or Brisbane. We offer flexible work options that put our people first, working in a hybrid model with a minimum local Head Office attendance requirement determined by your Leader, to find a rhythm that works best for you and your team.

So, why work for us?

Want big impact that matters? Here, you’ll know your work directly benefits the customers and communities we all serve. You’ll also get access to a great range of benefits, including:

• Flexibility means different things for different people. Whether it’s hybrid work, flexible hours, a compressed work week, job-sharing or something different, our flexible work options are designed to put people first.
• Health and wellbeing support, including discounted gym memberships, private health insurance options, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your immediate family members.
• Opportunities to take your learning to the next level through our corporate university ‘BEN U’ or at an external provider of your choice.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success and we actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity of thought to our business. We support candidate requests for adjustment to accommodate an illness, injury, or disability to equitably participate in the selection process.

Still in two minds?

Research suggests 60% of women and underrepresented groups might stop here, even after getting as far as drafting an application. We believe that diversity makes every team stronger, so even if you don’t tick every box, we still want to see your application!

We’re making better, bigger. And we’ll get there with you.

Now’s the time to set your sights even higher – on the future you and the future career you deserve.