Step into a leadership role where you’ll shape how ART detects, manages, and responds to financial crime risk. Lead a high‑impact team, influence enterprise outcomes, and take the next step in your career with confidence.

Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About the role

As Team Leader, Financial Crimes, you will lead a specialist team responsible for detecting, investigating, and managing financial crime risks across ART. This role provides the opportunity to step into a visible people leadership position with real influence across the broader business, while supporting Risk & Compliance as a key second‑line partner. You’ll balance day‑to‑day operational leadership with coaching, quality oversight, and contribution to strategic initiatives and system enhancements. Working closely with senior leaders and key stakeholders, you’ll help uplift capability, embed strong controls, and protect our members and organisation.

Day to day, you'll:

• Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Financial Crimes Analysts and Seniors to deliver high‑quality operational outcomes
• Overseeing triage, investigation, and escalation of suspicious matters across fraud and AML/CTF activities
• Acting as a key escalation point, providing guidance, technical direction, and constructive feedback
• Managing workflow, resourcing, and priorities across BAU and project-related activities
• Embedding quality assurance practices and continuously improving processes and controls
• Partnering with stakeholders across ART to identify, assess, and manage financial crime risk
• Supporting system enhancements and change initiatives across transaction monitoring activities
• Contributing to financial crime risk advice for strategic initiatives and projects
• Preparing and supporting reporting to relevant governance forums and committees
• Representing ART in external financial crime forums when required

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:  

• You bring proven people‑leadership experience, with the ability to coach, motivate, and develop high‑performing teams
• Experience in financial crime, AML/CTF, fraud, or risk and compliance within financial services (or the capability to quickly build this expertise)
• Strong operational mindset, with confidence managing BAU activity alongside change and improvement initiatives
• The ability to provide clear direction, make sound risk‑based decisions, and act as a trusted escalation point
• Well‑developed stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence across diverse business areas
• A quality‑focused approach, with an eye for detail and a drive for continuous improvement
• Comfortable delivering challenging feedback with professionalism and empathy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to reports and governance forums
• A collaborative leadership style aligned to ART’s values of courage, empathy, and excellence

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of almost $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. 

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different. 

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