Forensic AML Specialist Analyst Contractor (9 months+)

Join us. But be you. At Deloitte, you’ll do more than just join something, you’ll add something.  You’ve found a place that values your curiosity, passion, and desire to work alongside brilliant people on the things that really matter. There really is only one question: What impact do YOU want to make?

Passionate about making a positive impact defending New Zealand against money laundering and other financial crimes? Join Deloitte's Forensic team as an Analyst on a fixed term 9 month contract in our Auckland office .  

The team you'll join: 

Work alongside the largest Forensic team in New Zealand where we turn challenges into opportunities, creating enduring success for business, communities, and the planet. We provide clients with services that help them confidently face off against threats and respond to incidents.  The client challenges you will help them address range from ensuring they meet their AML/CFT and sanctions compliance obligations, managing down their financial crime-related risks.  If this sounds like something you’re passionate about, this one could be for you. 

The impact you'll make: 

We are currently on the lookout for a Analyst, who specialises in financial crime, to join our team in Auckland. The focus for the first 12 months will see you joining a small team of Deloitte Financial Crime Analysts working with a key bank client to ensure enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) is conducted on the Bank’s higher-risk customers.  You will provide flexible financial crime-related support to the Bank, with regular customer contact at the core of the work.  After the initial ECDD assignment you may be required to perform other financial crime-related operational functions.  

Your typical day will include: 

• Customer Engagement: Engaging with a wide range of the Bank’s customers over the phone and via email, to support them in providing the required information to meet ECDD requirements.
• Risk Management:  Ensuring you meet legislative AML/CFT requirements, adhere to the client’s internal procedures (and Deloitte’s risk management policies) through the timely and accurate assessment/investigation/requests and review of information/resolution of complex financial crime cases & alerts.  
• Workload management: Management of your daily caseload to ensure you meet KPI’s for quality and productivity
• SME input: Making informed decisions, utilising your subject matter expertise to resolve the more complex cases and facilitate the escalation of cases back to the client, in line with the clients’ internal procedures, where required.  
• Eye for Detail: A focus on delivering high-quality work that meets and exceeds both internally and externally set quality expectations.
• Performance Improvement: Application of a risk lens to identify opportunities to enhance performance and operating efficiency of the team, sharing insights with the Team Lead to support in the provision of expert advice tailored to the client. 
• Client Relationships: Development of deep client relationships through the provision of high-quality outcomes.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you. You are someone who demonstrates strong: 

• Experience: 1-2 plus years in a financial crime banking environment, ideally with customer facing experience. ECDD experience is preferred. 
• Attention to Detail: An eye for detail and quality.
• Decision Making: Ability to make informed decisions while capturing the rationale for those decisions, ability to demonstrate initiative while balancing the need to escalate issues accordingly.
• Communication:  Strong written and verbal fluency with the ability to convey complex requests concisely, adjusting your communication style to the audience/customer.  
• Organisation: Ability to organise and prioritise multiple tasks, as well as adapting to business needs. 
• Customer Experience: Takes pride and commitment in quality customer service. 

Making an impact that matters, together: 

We are driven by our desire to create positive outcomes for our clients, communities, and people. Everything we do is with intent - the intent to make a meaningful difference. 

Our shared values are at the heart of everything we do. Living these values, including ‘taking care of each other’ and ‘fostering inclusion’, is essential to ensuring everyone feels included at work and able to reach their full potential. For us to succeed and thrive as an organisation, we understand the importance of creating a culture where diverse perspectives matter and where everyone is given an equal opportunity to grow and develop. 

How you’ll be rewarded:  

We hold a simple belief – that our people’s hard work should be recognised and rewarded beyond their remuneration. The Deloitte experience is founded on concepts of trust, balance, wellbeing and the importance of personal connection.  

We offer you:     

• Subsidised professional qualifications and paid professional memberships 
• Subsidised health insurance 
• Income protection insurance 
• 22 days annual leave 
• Social events, social sports teams, and monthly firm drinks 
• A focus on wellness and well-being  
• Community focused volunteer days 
• A focus on the environment and sustainability 
• Plus much more 

Does this sound like the sort of role and organisation for you? Then apply now! We’d love to hear from you. 

We believe the strongest teams are made up of diverse individuals and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognise that women and individuals from under-represented backgrounds may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all criteria. If you're passionate about this role and believe you have the skills, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience, ideal working hours or qualifications aren't a perfect match.

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