Senior Manager Financial Crime

• Hybrid office/work-from-home environment
• Join a high performing and collaborative team

• Can be based from our Sydney or Melbourne office

Perpetual Wealth

The wealth management business comprises three distinct brands in addition to Perpetual Private - Fordham, Jacaranda Financial Planning and Priority Life - providing a differentiated suite of wealth management, advice, investment management and product promotion services. Through these brands, we support clients with strategic financial advice, superannuation and retirement planning, investment solutions, insurance, tax-effective wealth structuring, estate and succession planning, aged care advice, social security support and philanthropic initiatives. As both an investment manager and product promoter, we design, oversee and distribute investment solutions to help clients achieve their financial objectives. Our clients include individuals, families, businesses, not-for-profit organisations and Indigenous communities across Australia.

As part of an exciting new chapter, Perpetual Wealth will soon become a standalone business as part of the recently announced acquisition by Bain Capital. This creates a unique opportunity to join a business focused on growth, innovation, and delivering exceptional outcomes for clients.

About the Role

Join our dynamic team at Perpetual Wealth. As Senior Manager Financial Crime you will:

• Own, maintain and continuously improve the Line 2 AML/CTF compliance framework, program, policies, standards and supporting governance, subject to AMLCO approval and oversight
• Lead independent Line 2 oversight of money laundering and terrorism financing risk, sanctions, fraud, scams, bribery and corruption, and other financial crime risks within the agreed role perimeter
• Own and maintain the Line 2 FATCA and CRS governance framework, policies and standards

• Oversee enterprise, legal-entity, product and thematic financial crime risk assessments, and provide independent challenge on the adequacy and effectiveness of controls

• Provide authoritative advice and constructive challenge on customers, products, services, channels, jurisdictions, transactions, projects and business change

About You

We’re looking for someone with:

• Tertiary qualification in law, finance, accounting, business, risk, compliance or a related discipline

• Relevant postgraduate qualification or professional certification, such as ACAMS, ICA or an equivalent credential, is desirable

• Typically 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience across financial crime, regulatory compliance, enterprise risk, privacy or related disciplines, including substantial experience in financial services

• Demonstrated experience owning, leading or materially uplifting compliance frameworks and policies in a Line 2 environment

• Strong working knowledge of AML/CTF obligations, AUSTRAC expectations and regulatory reporting governance

• Experience with FATCA and CRS governance, due diligence and reporting oversight

• Demonstrated privacy governance capability, including privacy advice, impact assessment, incident oversight, complaints and regulatory engagement

• Experience engaging with senior governance forums, regulators, auditors and external advisers

• Experience in wealth management, corporate trustee, funds management or a comparable financial services environment is highly desirable

How we work
Our unique culture is underpinned by our three organisational behaviours, Stretch, Own it, Make an impact which drive our approach of day-to-day interactions with colleagues and clients, the way we approach decision-making to the questions we ask and the problems we solve.

Employee benefits

About Us

Perpetual is an ASX-listed, diversified financial services company which has been serving clients since 1886.

Across our four business divisions - Perpetual Asset Management Australia, Perpetual Asset Management International, Perpetual Private and Perpetual Corporate Trust - we aim to protect and grow our clients' wealth, knowing that by doing so we can make a difference in their lives.

Trust is earned, every day.

We have been earning the trust of our clients for more than 130 years and pride ourselves on our long-standing client relationships - some of which span five generations.

Our People

Each and every day our people bring to life our enterprise behaviours – Stretch, Own It, and Make an Impact. The Perpetual team is diverse, expert and driven by the belief that we can make a difference in the lives of our clients. We value integrity, skill and teamwork and seek to find the best in each individual. Our reward is personal and professional development and the pride that comes from doing the best for our clients.

Our History

In 1885, a committee of business and professional people, including future Prime Minister, the Honourable Sir Edmund Barton, gathered in Sydney for the purpose of forming a trustee company. Perpetual Trustee Company Limited was formed on 28 September 1886 and since then has been entrusted by generations of Australians to manage, grow and protect their wealth.

Through wars, recessions and financial crises, we have continually evolved to meet the challenges of constant social, technological and economic change. Our core values and financial principles have endured through time and will continue to endure.