Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Job Description Manager – Transactional Monitoring
Sydney or Melbourne
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.
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If we do our job well, we genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people.
The Manager - Transaction Monitoring, Financial Crime Risk is responsible for providing Line 2 oversight of AMP’s transaction monitoring framework, ensuring effective, consistent and compliant detection outcomes aligned to AML/CTF obligations. The role supports the assessment and management of financial crime risk through oversight of typologies, risk mapping, scenario design, detection logic and threshold settings, ensuring monitoring controls remain risk-based and aligned to regulatory expectations.
Through specialist expertise and informed challenge, the role contributes to the ongoing optimisation of transaction monitoring capability across financial crime and fraud risks, strengthening detection coverage, control effectiveness and responsiveness to evolving threats,
regulatory change and business needs.
How will you make an impact
Support the maintenance, enhancement and ongoing uplift of the Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessment (TMRA), including financial crime typologies and red flag indicators across AML/CTF, fraud and scams
Ensure risk assessments remain current by incorporating changes in products, customers, channels, geographies, emerging threats and regulatory guidance
Work closely with Line 1 Financial Crime Analytics and operations teams to translate TMRA outputs into scenario coverage, rules, thresholds and control design
Prepare and communicate TMRA insights to support explicit understanding, consistent application and visibility of risk across transaction monitoring and broader financial crime functions
Typology Coverage & Detection Approach
Support the ongoing review of financial crime typologies and their alignment to transaction monitoring controls and detection coverage
Ensure typologies remain aligned to regulatory expectations, emerging risk indicators and industry best practice
Identify gaps in typology coverage and traceability to regulatory guidance and evolving threats
Assist in translating typologies into monitoring scenarios, rule development and detection logic
Partner with intelligence and analytics teams to incorporate new and evolving typologies into monitoring approaches
Provide Line 2 oversight and specialist input into the design, review and optimisation of transaction monitoring scenarios
Review scenario logic, thresholds, segmentation, testing, validation and expected outputs to support effective detection of suspicious activity
Assess scenario performance, including alert volumes, quality and conversion outcomes, to determine effectiveness and drive continuous improvement
Review scenario enhancements, tuning and decommissioning to ensure alignment with internal controls and regulatory expectations
Provide informed challenge and advisory support on scenario design and implementation to strengthen detection capability
Governance & Reporting
Contribute to governance forums and management committees, including preparation of materials, insights and escalation of key issues
Support AMLCO, Risk Committee and broader governance reporting by ensuring transaction monitoring matters are accurately captured, evidenced and communicated
Translate regulatory change, audit findings and technical insights into clear, practical updates for stakeholders
Contribute to governance documentation that supports effective oversight, accountability and risk transparency
What you will bring to the role
5+ years’ experience in financial crime, AML/CTF, transaction monitoring or risk operations within financial services
Strong experience in transaction monitoring, including scenario design, implementation, testing, validation and performance assessment
Experience with Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessments (TMRA) or equivalent risk-based frameworks
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📌 Senior Manager, Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring (Sydney)
🏢 Amp
📍 Sydney