Project Director – Financial Crime & Regulatory Transformation

- Location: Sydney
- Day Rate Contract
- Daily Rate: Up to $1,280 + Super

A unique opportunity for an experienced Project Director to join a major enterprise-wide Financial Crime and Regulatory Transformation program. This role sits at the centre of a significant regulatory uplift initiative focused on the organisation's response to evolving AML/CTF obligations. Rather than delivering an individual technology project, you will be responsible for establishing the governance frameworks, delivery standards and operating structures required to enable multiple business and delivery teams to meet regulatory obligations consistently across the enterprise.

Working closely with Financial Crime SMEs, Product Owners and senior stakeholders, you will translate regulatory requirements into practical implementation approaches, governance models and reporting frameworks that drive alignment and accountability across numerous delivery streams.

This is a highly visible role requiring extensive engagement with executive stakeholders, steering committees and senior leaders across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

- Establish governance frameworks, operating models and delivery standards to support regulatory compliance obligations.
- Drive alignment across multiple delivery teams, business units and stakeholder groups.




- Develop executive reporting, governance packs and steering committee materials.
- Partner with Financial Crime and regulatory SMEs to translate regulatory requirements into practical delivery outcomes.
- Influence senior stakeholders to ensure consistent adoption of agreed frameworks and standards.

About You You are a seasoned Program Manager/ Project Director with experience leading complex regulatory, risk, compliance or transformation initiatives within large enterprise environments.

You will possess robust governance and framework development capabilities, coupled with exceptional stakeholder management skills and experience engaging at executive and board level.

You will bring experience in areas such as:

- Financial Crime programs
- AML/CTF regulatory initiatives
- Regulatory transformation
- Risk and compliance programs
- Governance and operating model implementation
- Enterprise-wide regulatory uplift or remediation initiatives

What to do Next? If you have a track record delivering complex regulatory programs across financial crime and excel in environments requiring strong governance, executive engagement and enterprise-wide influence, we would love to hear from you. Please apply now and forward an updated resume to [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

📌 Project Director (Sydney)
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