Senior Anti Money Laundering Operations Manager

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), we believe in bringing people together and connecting locals to their local pubs, enabling great experiences and positive, memorable moments. We are the largest hospitality provider in Australia, owning and operating venues in over 350 communities across Australia and focused on empowering our teams to bring every pub's story to life meaningfully for the locals. 

As part of Endeavour Group, we are united behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 350+ hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH.

• Love what you do and leave your mark

The Senior AML Operations Manager plays a critical role in ALH living our value of leading responsibly through their leadership of the Financial Crime Operations team. This role has direct responsibility for the development, management and enhancement of critical Financial Crime Operations processes across ALH. 

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Lead and manage the Anti Money Laundering Operations team and be accountable for the team's outcomes.
• Provide updates on the volume and productivity of work for each workstream along with any AML Operations related reporting to ensure the team is on track and delivering per applicable policies and procedures. 
• Develop and enhance critical Financial Crime processes through process mapping, creating business requirements and leading change management.
• Represent sponsors, as the General Managers delegate, in relevant forums.
• Design future state technology requirements for Financial Crime management including transaction monitoring, Enhanced Customer Due Diligence, screening, case management, customer risk assessment.
• Responsible for building an effective Customer Due Diligence and customer screening operations function and implementing procedures and processes.
• Day-to-day management of the CDD operations and customer screening function, including CDD processes meet procedures, handling escalations and working with ALH Compliance to manage risk.
• Work with ALH leadership and gaming team members to ensure AML training and ongoing feedback is embedded in the business and to frontline teams.
• On occasion represent ALH with external regulatory bodies such AUSTRAC and state gaming regulators.
• Advise on, and escalate, higher risk relationships and reputation risks arising from Customer Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring and customer screening to Management.
• Oversee the screening of incoming employees through World Check and police checks; escalation of cases and the provision of advice by the team on results.
• Report to senior management/executives on a periodic basis.
• Partner with functional experts (i.e. Legal, Compliance, Business) to develop procedures, processes and controls.
• Prepare the applicable regulatory reporting e.g. Suspicious Matter Reporting (SMR), Annual Compliance Report (ACR),etc. in line with approved guidance.
• Ensure timely lodgment of Regulatory reporting on AUSTRAC online within designated SLA. 

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Experience (8+ Years) in a direct Financial Crime Operations leadership role.
• Experience in a compliance function role within a retail, gaming/wagering or financial services environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.
• Ability to continuously explore new ways to understand and deliver on changing customer needs.
• Stakeholder management skills to build and foster positive relationships.
• Strong initiative, time management and exceptional communication skills.
• Experience in data visualisation and powerBI creation (desirable).
• Financial Crime Process enhancement experience (desirable).
• Financial Crime external technology landscape experience (desirable).

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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