Senior Financial Crime Manager

Senior Financial Crime Manager

About Stake

We're an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we've empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Financial Crime Manager to join our Finance team in Sydney .

As Stake continues to grow across products, markets and customer segments, maintaining a strong financial crime control environment is critical to protecting our customers, our platform and our reputation. This role sits at the centre of that responsibility, leading the functions that detect, investigate and respond to financial crime risks while helping the business scale with confidence.

You'll lead Stake's Transaction Monitoring and Enhanced Customer Due Diligence capabilities, overseeing the frameworks, controls and operational processes that underpin our financial crime program. Working closely with Compliance, Risk, Legal, Product and senior business leaders, you'll help ensure our approach remains effective, proportionate and aligned with both regulatory obligations and business objectives.

This is a highly influential leadership role with meaningful ownership across financial crime operations, governance and continuous improvement. You'll combine deep subject matter expertise with strong commercial judgement to strengthen controls, improve operational effectiveness and help shape the future of Stake's financial crime capability. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like

Within your first two years, you'll have:

• Strengthened Stake's financial crime control environment, ensuring detection, investigation and escalation frameworks remain effective, scalable and risk-based
• Built a high-performing team that consistently delivers quality outcomes across transaction monitoring, ECDD and regulatory reporting activities
• Enhanced Stake's ability to identify and respond to emerging financial crime risks through stronger controls, improved intelligence and more effective operational processes
• Established meaningful performance measures and reporting that provide clear visibility into financial crime risk, operational effectiveness and regulatory compliance
• Improved efficiency and scalability across financial crime operations through automation, technology and data-driven process improvements
• Built trusted relationships with stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Product and senior leadership, helping embed financial crime considerations into business decisions
• Strengthened governance, documentation and audit readiness across all areas of the financial crime program
• Helped create a culture where risk management, accountability and customer protection are embedded into how Stake operates and grows

You'll thrive here if…

• You have deep expertise across transaction monitoring, enhanced customer due diligence and financial crime investigations within a regulated financial services environment
• You're comfortable making decisions in complex or ambiguous situations and can balance regulatory requirements, customer outcomes and business priorities
• You have experience leading teams and building operating models that scale while maintaining quality and strong risk controls
• You enjoy improving frameworks, processes and systems and are motivated by creating better outcomes through continuous improvement
• You use data, insight and sound judgement to influence decisions and drive meaningful change
• You communicate effectively across all levels of an organisation and build strong partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders

Bonus if you've ever

• Led transaction monitoring or ECDD functions within fintech, investing, banking or payments businesses
• Managed complex AML/CTF investigations and regulatory reporting obligations, including Suspicious Matter Reports
• Implemented financial crime technology, automation or analytics solutions that improved detection capabilities and operational efficiency
• Worked through regulatory reviews, audits or large-scale remediation programs
• Helped build or scale financial crime functions during periods of significant business growth

Benefits of working at Stake

You'll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks. Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake ( program.

• Professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Wellbeing support
• Annual leave swap days
• Discretionary performance bonus
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and if we think you'd be a good addition to our team, we'll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.