Manager, Financial Crime

About Resolution Life

Resolution Life Australasia is part of the Acenda Group. Acenda Group brings together some of Australia and New Zealand’s most trusted life insurance brands. With 176 years of combined heritage and deep expertise across local markets, our Group includes Acenda Life, Resolution Life Australasia and Asteron Life New Zealand.

More than two million customers rely on us for life insurance, wealth protection and retirement solutions that support their confidence at every stage of life.

Everything we do is driven by a clear purpose: to help our customers and their families live, save and retire with confidence.

We’re building an inclusive, dynamic and future focused business. Joining us means stepping into a period of integration and growth, where your work will help shape our future.

If you’re energised by change and motivated by purpose, this is your moment to make an impact.

The Opportunity

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Financial Crime leader with deep fraud expertise to take ownership of an organisation's fraud risk management framework and shape its future direction. Working across both strategy and operations, you'll lead fraud prevention, detection and investigation activities, strengthen governance and controls, and partner with senior stakeholders to enhance the organisation's financial crime capability. This role is ideally suited to a specialist whose experience is heavily weighted towards fraud risk management, supported by broader AML/CTF, sanctions and financial crime operations expertise.

Joining a high-performing Risk function, you'll play a critical role in protecting the business from emerging financial crime threats while driving continuous improvement across fraud frameworks, investigations, remediation and control uplift programs. You'll influence key business decisions, lead financial crime initiatives and provide expert guidance across the organisation, making a measurable impact on risk outcomes, regulatory compliance and organisational resilience.

How will you make an impact?

• Take ownership of the organisation's anti-fraud framework, driving ongoing enhancements across prevention, detection, investigation and response.

• Lead fraud risk assessments, control reviews and governance activities to strengthen the organisation's resilience against emerging fraud threats.

• Drive complex fraud investigations, whistleblower matters and remediation activities, ensuring timely resolution and effective stakeholder management.

• Partner with senior leaders and business stakeholders to influence risk decisions, uplift controls and embed strong fraud risk practices across the organisation.

• Lead the delivery of fraud-related transformation, integration and control uplift initiatives that support evolving business and regulatory requirements.

• Provide operational oversight and support across AML/CTF, sanctions and broader financial crime compliance activities, ensuring an effective and compliant control environment.

• Deliver strategic insights, reporting and recommendations that shape the organisation's financial crime strategy and enhance risk outcomes.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following:

• Proven experience in a Financial Crime, Fraud Risk or Financial Crime leadership role, with fraud risk management representing the majority of your expertise.

• A strong track record of owning and enhancing anti-fraud frameworks, including fraud strategy, governance, prevention, detection, investigation and remediation activities.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex fraud investigations, whistleblower matters and financial crime incidents, delivering effective outcomes and control improvements.

• Broad financial crime expertise across AML/CTF, sanctions and regulatory compliance, supported by a strong understanding of financial crime risk management frameworks.

• Experience leading remediation, integration, transformation or other large-scale change initiatives within complex, regulated environments.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders, challenge constructively and drive positive risk outcomes.

• Proven ability to provide end-to-end financial crime expertise, balancing strategic oversight with hands-on delivery to strengthen fraud and financial crime capabilities.
  

Why Join Us?

At Resolution Life Australasia, we provide a flexible work environment and access to a range of employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally including:

• Career pathways, including local and global mobility opportunities

• Leading Learning Platforms and support in professional development

• Health and Wellbeing Programs

Accessibility and Checks
Before commencing employment in this role, you will need to provide two references, full working rights and complete police and credit checks through an online provider. As an equal opportunity employer strongly committed to working in a diverse and inclusive workforce you will be provided with any support or accessibility requirements throughout your interview process. Please feel free to contact our Talent Team directly at talent@resolutionlife.com.au.

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