Transaction Monitoring Specialist – Financial Crime
Location - Adelaide, or willing to relocate.
Length - Permanent
Are you a data-driven financial crime professional with outstanding SQL skills? We’re looking for a Transaction Monitoring (TM) Specialist to design, build, and optimise rules that play a key role in detecting and preventing suspicious activity.
This role focuses on the technical delivery of transaction monitoring controls — SQL within writing and tuning rule logic, performing post-implementation testing, and working closely with stakeholders to ensure financial crime risks are effectively captured. Your ability to write efficient, accurate SQL code is critical to the success of this role.
Key responsibilities:
* Review and enhance the transaction monitoring framework to ensure appropriate coverage of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks
* Design and implement new transaction monitoring rules, including writing SQL code and logic for customer segmentation and threshold tuning
* Conduct post-implementation testing to assess rule performance and make data-led improvements
* Support the development of internal Standards and SOPs for the testing, tuning and operation of TM rules
* Investigate and resolve rule mapping issues from source systems
* Maintain clear documentation for all rule builds, testing outcomes, and version control
* Collaborate across Financial Crime, Risk, Data and ICT teams to continuously improve the monitoring platform
What success looks like:
You’ll be known for your technical precision, strong stakeholder engagement, and ability to turn insights into targeted monitoring logic. Your SQL expertise will help build efficient rules that detect risks accurately and withstand regulatory scrutiny.
About you:
* Proven experience in a financial crime, AML/CTF, or regulatory compliance role
* Excellent SQL skills with the ability to write, troubleshoot, and optimise complex queries
* Strong understanding of AML/CTF typologies, risk indicators, and regulatory reporting obligations
* Demonstrated experience in rule design, threshold tuning, and system performance testing
* Comfortable working across both technical and non-technical teams
* Strong attention to detail, documentation skills, and version control discipline
If you would like more information please contact Sarah Brown #J-18808-Ljbffr