Senior Manager – Intelligence, Monitoring & Analytics, Financial Crime Risk

Senior Manager – Intelligence, Monitoring & Analytics, Financial Crime Risk

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you’ve likely heard of AMP. But at a time when society is changing, we are too. We’re now a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking. 

For us, these are exciting times. There’s a real potential for big thinkers to help us redefine what financial services could be. And turn our legacy into something even more positive and powerful for the future.

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We help people with their banking, super, retirement and finances. Through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions. Every day, we help people see and make more of their financial potential, so that they can create their tomorrow. And we’ve been doing it for over 170 years. 

If we do our job well, we genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people. 

Financial Crime Risk (FCR) is a Group enterprise function which sits within the ERM division and provides expert advice and is accountable for the effective management of financial crime obligations and emerging risks across the AMP Group including AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud and Scams, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and foreign tax reporting (FATCA/CRS) domains

The Senior Manager – Intelligence, Monitoring & Analytics, Financial Crime Risk leads AMP’s Second Line of Defence (2LoD) intelligence, transaction monitoring oversight and analytics capability, ensuring a cohesive, intelligence-led and data-driven approach to managing financial crime risk. The role brings together threat insights, monitoring effectiveness and analytical reporting to proactively identify, assess and respond to emerging risks, typologies and trends.

Operating as a senior 2LoD leader, the role provides independent oversight, credible challenge and strategic advice to Line 1 across Banking, Wealth and Corporate functions, ensuring controls, scenarios and frameworks remain effective, risk-based and aligned to evolving threats and regulatory expectations. It embeds data-driven insights into risk assessments, control design and governance decision-making, while strengthening enterprise-wide financial crime risk management.

Through strong leadership and enterprise influence, the role integrates intelligence, transaction monitoring and analytics into a coordinated capability, supporting timely risk response, regulatory alignment and informed, risk-based decision-making across AMP.

How will you make an impact

Transaction Monitoring Oversight & Detection Effectiveness

• Provide Second Line of Defence (2LoD) oversight and challenge of Transaction Monitoring across AML/CTF, Fraud, Scams and Sanctions 
• Ensure effective design, calibration and performance of monitoring frameworks, including typologies, scenarios and thresholds 
• Govern scenario testing, tuning and change to maintain risk-based and regulator-defensible outcomes 
• Translate emerging threats and intelligence into practical detection enhancements

Threat Intelligence, Typologies & External Engagement

• Lead financial crime intelligence capability, including horizon scanning of emerging threats and typologies 
• Translate AUSTRAC, regulatory and law enforcement insights into actionable intelligence 
• Assess relevance to AMP’s risk profile and inform response strategies 
• Represent AMP in industry engagements and external forums

Risk Assessment Methodology & Forward-Looking Insight

• Develop and maintain financial crime risk assessment methodologies aligned to enterprise frameworks 
• Integrate regulatory guidance, industry intelligence and internal data into a consolidated risk view 
• Ensure risk assessments are forward-looking and aligned to risk appetite

Data-Driven Financial Crime Insight

• Deliver a data and intelligence-led approach to financial crime risk management 
• Analyse trends, typologies and detection outcomes to generate insights 
• Maintain oversight of data quality, lineage and analytical integrity 
• Translate complex analysis into clear, decision-ready insights

Analytics, Reporting & Data Oversight

• Oversee Financial Crime analytics and reporting, including AUSTRAC obligations 
• Ensure outputs are accurate, timely and regulator-defensible 
• Maintain governance over data quality, reporting frameworks and analytics capability

Governance

• Provide 2LoD oversight and challenge across governance forums, including FCCC, Risk Committees and Board reporting 
• Ensure clear articulation of financial crime risk exposure and compliance status aligned to risk appetite and regulatory expectations
• Ensure material risks and emerging threats are escalated and governed appropriately 
• Support an integrated Financial Crime governance approach across the enterprise

What you will bring to the role 

• 8+ years’ experience in financial crime, intelligence, analytics or risk within financial services, regulatory, consulting or law enforcement environments
• Experience leading specialist teams or senior individual contributors across intelligence, analytics and transaction monitoring
• Strong experience overseeing or challenging transaction monitoring systems, including scenario design, tuning and effectiveness
• Demonstrated expertise analysing financial crime typologies across AML/CTF, Fraud and Sanctions
• Strong experience working with complex data sets to generate risk insights and intelligence
• Experience translating regulatory and industry intelligence into actionable business insights
• Strong experience within banking and/or wealth environments managing complex financial crime risk profiles
• Exposure to sanctions frameworks, screening controls and jurisdictional risk considerations
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders, governance forums and regulators, with the ability to challenge and influence decisions
• Tertiary qualification in Finance, Economics, Risk, Law, Criminology, Data Analytics or a related discipline (desirable)
• Professional certifications such as CAMS or accounting/audit qualifications highly desirable
• Postgraduate qualifications in analytics, intelligence or risk are advantageous

Who you are

You bring deep technical expertise in Financial Crime Compliance, Intelligence and Analytics as a Second Line of Defence (2LoD) specialist, with strong knowledge across AML/CTF, Fraud and Sanctions. You have hands-on experience with transaction monitoring frameworks, including scenario design, tuning and detection effectiveness, and a solid understanding of sanctions risk, screening and jurisdictional exposure. You are confident interpreting regulatory, industry and law enforcement intelligence and translating this into actionable insights aligned to AMP’s risk profile and control environment.

You are delivery-focused and comfortable leading complex, end-to-end outcomes through specialist teams, balancing competing regulatory, strategic and business priorities.

You bring excellent judgement and executive presence, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide credible challenge on complex Financial Crime matters and well-reasoned advice. You bring sound judgement in assessing emerging risks and materiality and are confident providing independent challenge while maintaining strong 2LoD oversight. You communicate complex intelligence clearly and concisely, delivering decision-ready insights and influencing governance, framework uplift and control design, including at senior stakeholder and governance forum level, and are confident preparing board- and committee-ready materials. 

You are a collaborative and forward-looking leader who thrives in a high-performing environment, with a strong focus on outcomes, accountability and continuous improvement. You are curious about evolving financial crime threats and regulatory developments, and excel at aligning stakeholders across Financial Crime, Risk, Operations, Technology and Data to drive a coordinated, enterprise-wide approach.

If you would like to receive the full job description, please contact [email protected]. To ensure a consistent and streamlined recruitment process, applications should be submitted via the LinkedIn link only.

Why we think you’ll love working at AMP

Doing what we’ve always done is not an option, so your clever ideas will get airtime here. You’ll be encouraged to speak up and try new things. If they don’t work, we move on – better for it.

We know there’s no one way of doing things. So, you won’t have to sacrifice who you are or how you work to fit in here. We’re inclusive and flexible in many of the ways you’d expect. And in some of the ways you wouldn’t. As long as your health and wellbeing come first - at home and at work. 

In fact, most of what makes AMP such a welcoming, enjoyable place to work are our people. Wherever you go, you’ll find moments to connect, feel valued and do meaningful work. 

Whether it’s through our first-class leaders who are invested in you and your success. Through year-round opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community. Or in the everyday challenges you face as we work together to strengthen this great organisation. Challenges that will stretch you, amplify your potential and compound the impact you have. 

We believe in the power of inclusion and diversity

We’re dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging at AMP. It sparks creativity, ignites innovation, and turns up the dial on the quality of our decisions and performance. This not only makes our workplace more engaged but also leads to better connections with our customers. 

We're your allies in the search for the perfect fit - when you apply, let us know how we can support you to put your best self forward during our selection process. 

We're also committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so we enthusiastically encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply and explore our Reconciliation Plan on our website.

Ready to create your tomorrow?

If you’re someone who sees opportunity where others see challenge, come and work with us in smart, progressive ways as we transform an iconic Australian brand for the future. And, through a series of career-defining moments, create your own tomorrow.

Don’t procrastinate! We review applications when we get them, and if we discover the ideal candidate, we may close the role earlier than the advertised close date.

Looking forward to meeting you.