Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring Analyst

Supports day-to-day anti-money laundering compliance operations with a specific focus on identifying and reporting suspicious client transactions, suspected money laundering activities, and illicit financing. Executes client due diligence checks to detect and prevent money laundering. Supports anti-money laundering processes and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance and protect shareholder assets.

About Vanguard

More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners. 

Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.

About the Role

As a Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring Analyst for Vanguard Australia, you will be joining a collaborative Financial Crime Team to aid in the detection of potential money laundering, terrorism financing and other financial crime activity. This role helps protect Vanguard Australia, its customers, and the community from the impacts of financial crime. In this role, you will be using a state-of-the-art detection system to identify, understand and address Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) alerts.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct first-round critical analysis of alerts generated via the Transaction Monitoring Program (TMP) to detect and assess financial crime risk.
• Managing and clearing alerts generated in the Transaction Monitoring (TM) System, within designated SLAs, KPIs and quality targets set for your tasked work.
• Escalating any potential suspicious matters to Financial Crime Operations teams.
• Ensuring adherence to the Standard Operating Procedure for investigations.
• Be involved in testing requirements for new TM rules and changes to existing rules.
• Understanding and interpreting transaction data to pursue lines of inquiry in relation to customers, source of funds, beneficial owners, and related parties.
• Provide support to Financial Crime Operations Analysts to aid understanding of new cases, and emerging financial crime typologies.
• Provide support on assessment of matters related to Screening of customers or payments for PEPS, Relatives/Close Associates, Adverse Media, and Third-Party Risk.
• Thoroughly document case chronology and prepare reports.
• Report any trends to the Financial Crime Team and recommend system/policy/procedure changes to mitigate future risk.
• Identify new and emerging financial crime trends and risks we may face.
• Partner with the business when supporting the recommendation and implementation of financial crime/fraud prevention and detection measures and controls.
• Clear articulation of due diligence findings and escalating cases as appropriate for further investigation.

About you:

If you have an inquisitive mindset, understanding of ML/TF typologies, have excellent attention to detail, with an ability to work independently and within a team, this role represents an exciting opportunity to display your skillset, be part of a fast-paced, agile team and further enhance your financial crime knowledge.

Skills & knowledge:

• 2 years+ experience in related field in Government, banking, or other financial services.
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role in a Financial Crime team, preferably within AML/CTF transaction monitoring, screening, intelligence analysis and/or reporting.
• Experience in detecting ML/TF and other financial crime typologies e.g. layering, tax evasion, scams, unusual customer behaviour.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to work quickly and independently with attention to detail while managing highly confidential, sensitive client data.
• High attention to detail, problem-solving mindset, and strong analytical skills.
• Knowledge of the AML/CTF Act and/or Rules, including AML typologies, customer screening requirements, transaction monitoring, PEPs or Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) obligations.
• Formal training/qualifications in AML/CTF and/or investigations. [desirable]

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued dedication to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve.

We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Special Factors

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• This position is hybrid and would require you to work in the office location Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Recruitment agencies, please note: Vacancies are managed by the Vanguard Talent Acquisition Team. Should external recruitment assistance be required, the Talent Acquisition Team will reach out to Vanguard agency partners, Thank you.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.