Financial Crime Senior Manager or Director - Financial Services Risk Consulting

About the role

EY is hiring a Director or Senior Manager in Financial Crime Compliance within its Financial Services Risk Management team in Sydney. You will help Australia's largest banks, insurers and financial institutions strengthen and transform their financial crime compliance governance, risk and control environments, working directly with senior risk and compliance stakeholders. The team combines risk and controls, delivery, transformation and technology expertise.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution and reporting of financial crime compliance assurance, advisory and transformation engagements across banking, insurance and wealth management.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and risk leaders.
• Identify emerging risks, control weaknesses and improvement opportunities, turning technical findings into practical business outcomes.
• Evaluate governance, risk management and control frameworks across financial crime and technology risk environments.
• Help clients transform their financial crime operations with technology and AI-enabled solutions, applying data analytics and technology-enabled techniques.
• Lead engagement teams, coach and develop junior team members, and manage multiple client engagements at once while keeping quality, commercial performance and deadlines.
• Lead business development, proposals and thought leadership across the Financial Services market, and support clients through regulatory, risk transformation and control uplift programmes.

Required profile

• 6-10 years' financial crime compliance experience in financial services, with a strong understanding of industry-specific risk and control environments.
• Experience in banking, insurance, wealth management, financial services consulting or a financial services regulator.
• Ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders and communicate complex issues clearly.
• Interest in technology and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience leading engagements and developing high-performing teams.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of risk management, controls, governance and assurance frameworks.
• Project management skills, including managing competing priorities.
• Strong report writing, with experience agreeing and presenting internal audit findings and action plans.
• Experience using data analytics, technology-enabled assurance or audit automation tools is highly regarded.

What we offer

• Structured career progression, coaching and leadership development.
• Flexible and hybrid ways of working.
• A benefits package including a yearly wellness incentive, extra flex leave and family-friendly policies such as up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave.
• Competitive salary open to negotiation depending on skills and experience.