Associate Director - Financial Crime

Job Requisition ID: 36672 

• World-class learning and leadership programs & opportunities for professional development
• An entrepreneurial working environment
• Diverse projects across top tier clients

Are you looking for the next step in your financial crime consulting career?

About the team

Deloitte Forensic is the pre-eminent forensic practice in Australia. Our market-leading Financial Crime team is a core part of our Forensic offering and brings together a team of professionals from across the industry, combining consulting, law enforcement, regulatory, operations, data analytics, technology and legal capabilities to advise local, regional and global clients on navigating increasingly complex financial crime challenges. Our growth has created an outstanding opportunity for someone with experience and drive to join our national team. We are a global team with approachable Partners and a unifying purpose to tackle complex financial crime problems for our clients across industry and government.

Enough about us. Let’s talk about you

We are looking for an Associate Director (6+ years professional experience) to join our financial crime practice in Sydney, with demonstrated experience from consulting, industry, regulatory or law enforcement in one or more of the following financial crime themes: anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF), sanctions and fraud (including scams). We are particularly interested in candidates with relevant consulting experience and a track record in one or more of the following:

• Financial crime data and technology
• The design, transformation, implementation or management of transaction monitoring or customer screening/risk systems and programs
• Uplift, optimisation and management of financial crime operational teams
• Sales and business development of financial crime projects or solutions.

The successful candidates will become a senior member of Deloitte Forensic and the role will involve:

• Delivering financial crime prevention and detection services to top-tier clients across advisory, implementation and operate-style engagements
• Executing on complex advisory matters whilst providing excellent stakeholder management, quality and risk awareness and team development
• Scoping new projects, managing teams in the delivery of projects, managing project budget and timeline, preparing and delivering stakeholder updates (written and verbal), synthesising and analysing information and preparing high quality deliverables (both written and verbal).
• Developing, coordinating and leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Supporting in the development of proposals for new client projects
• Cultivating a network of relationships with client and Deloitte stakeholders
• Continuing to support ongoing growth in the business and across our team members through coaching and development of staff as well as key client and service offering responsibilities

In addition to your strong technical and leadership capabilities, you will evidence the following abilities and experiences:

• Work rights in Australia (Permanent Resident or Australian Citizen).
• Demonstrated domain experience (6+ years) in financial crime in industry (e.g. financial services, gaming) or within another forensic or financial crime practice in a professional services firm
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and critical thinking combined with the ability to support or lead strategic discussions
• A strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills
• An ability to present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear, concise and actionable manner
• An interest and aptitude for developing client relationships and supporting in the identification, scoping and conversion of commercial opportunities (could also include internal business cases).

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.  

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong. 

We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package. 

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.