MUFG

Global bank offering diversified financial services

Group Financial Crime Compliance Policy & Procedure Lead

Financial Crime & AMLConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeAustraliaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in AML/CTF, sanctions, or financial crime compliance.
Demonstrated experience designing and drafting AML/CTF and sanctions policies, procedures, and control frameworks.
Strong knowledge of AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory requirements within Australia or the United Kingdom.
Proven experience supporting regulatory reform and financial crime transformation programmes.
Exceptional technical writing and documentation skills.
Ability to interpret complex legislative and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business requirements.
Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
Ability to operate independently and manage competing priorities within a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of MPMS’s AML/CTF and sanctions framework across multiple jurisdictions.
Establish a consistent framework structure while ensuring jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements are appropriately addressed.
Translate legislative and regulatory obligations into practical and operationally effective requirements.
Assess regulatory developments and identify impacts on existing frameworks and controls.
Support alignment between local regulatory obligations and group standards.
Develop and maintain policies, standards, procedures, guidance documents, and control frameworks.
Draft end-to-end AML/CTF and sanctions documentation covering key financial crime risk areas, including CDD/KYC, EDD, CRAs, PEPs, TM, SMRs, PDD, ABAC, fraud, and scams.
Review and rationalise existing documentation to identify gaps, duplication, and improvement opportunities.
Ensure policies and procedures are clear, practical, auditable, and aligned to business operations.
Develop supporting templates, guidance materials, and control documentation.
Interpret regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Ireland, India, and others.
Conduct regulatory gap assessments and map requirements to framework obligations.
Maintain document inventories, development plans, and delivery schedules.
Ensure all documentation is completed to a high standard and within agreed timeframes.
Facilitate workshops to document current and future-state operating models.
Support stakeholders through adoption of new frameworks, policies, and procedures.
Contribute to knowledge sharing and capability uplift across compliance and business teams.
Partner with compliance, risk, legal, operations, and business teams to capture requirements and validate procedures.
Work with external legal advisers and subject matter experts where required.
Support governance forums through preparation of papers, reports, and recommendations.
Support implementation activities, including communications, training, and procedural adoption.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working within multinational financial services organisations.
Experience engaging with regulators, external legal advisers, or internal audit functions.
ACAMS, ICA, CGSS, or equivalent financial crime qualification.
Experience across AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud, or broader financial crime frameworks.

Overview

This role is responsible for the design, development and implementation of AML/CTF, sanctions and broader financial crime documentation across the Group. This includes establishing and maintaining a consistent, risk based AML/CTF and sanctions policy and procedural framework across multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Jersey, Guernsey, Ireland, India and other applicable MPMS entities.

The role requires deep technical expertise in AML/CTF and sanctions compliance, with a focus on translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical and operationally effective policies, standards and procedures.

Reporting to the General Manager, Financial Crime Compliance, the role works closely with compliance, legal, risk, operations, technology and business stakeholders to deliver and maintain a comprehensive suite of financial crime frameworks and supporting documentation.

Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities

Strategic Focus

Lead the design and development of MPMS’s AML/CTF and Sanctions framework across multiple jurisdictions.
Establish a consistent framework structure while ensuring jurisdiction specific regulatory requirements are appropriately addressed.
Translate legislative and regulatory obligations into practical and operationally effective requirements.
Assess regulatory developments and identify impacts on existing frameworks and controls.
Support alignment between local regulatory obligations and group standards.

Operational Management

Develop and maintain policies, standards, procedures, guidance documents and control frameworks.
Draft end to end AML/CTF and sanctions documentation covering key financial crime risk areas (CDD/KYC, EDD, CRAs, PEPs, TM, SMRs, PDD, ABAC, Fraud and Scams).
Review and rationalise existing documentation to identify gaps, duplication and improvement opportunities.
Ensure policies and procedures are clear, practical, auditable and aligned to business operations.
Develop supporting templates, guidance materials and control documentation.
Interpret regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions (Australia, UK, Jersey, Guernsey, Ireland, India and others).
Conduct regulatory gap assessments and map requirements to framework obligations.
Maintain document inventories, development plans and delivery schedules.
Ensure all documentation is completed to a high standard and within agreed timeframes.

People Leadership

Facilitate workshops to document current and future state operating models.
Support stakeholders through adoption of new frameworks, policies and procedures.
Contribute to knowledge sharing and capability uplift across compliance and business teams.

Governance & Risk

Partner with compliance, risk, legal, operations and business teams to capture requirements and validate procedures.
Work with external legal advisers and subject matter experts where required.
Support governance forums through preparation of papers, reports and recommendations.
Support implementation activities including communications, training and procedural adoption.

Experience & Personal Attributes

Essential

10+ years' experience in AML/CTF, sanctions or financial crime compliance.
Demonstrated experience designing and drafting AML/CTF and sanctions policies, procedures and control frameworks.
Strong knowledge of AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory requirements within Australia or UK.
Proven experience supporting regulatory reform, financial crime transformation programmes.
Exceptional technical writing and documentation skills.
Ability to interpret complex legislative and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business requirements.
Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
Ability to operate independently and manage competing priorities within a dynamic environment.

Desirable

Experience working within multinational financial services organisations.
Experience engaging with regulators, external legal advisers or internal audit functions.
ACAMS, ICA, CGSS or equivalent financial crime qualification.
Experience across AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud or broader financial crime frameworks.

This role will be offered as a 12-Month Fixed Term Contract with potential for extension or convert to permanent.

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About the Company

MUFG

Global bank offering diversified financial services

MUFG is a major global financial group that provides a wide range of banking and financial services, including commercial and trust banking, securities, credit cards, and asset management. Its products are delivered through a network of domestic and international banks, digital platforms, and financial advisers, offering loans, deposits, payments, investment services, and asset management. MUFG stands out due to its size and scale as one of the world’s largest financial groups, its diversified offerings across banking and securities, and its strong international presence (notably expanding in the U.S. after investing in Morgan Stanley in 2008). Its goal is to support economic growth worldwide by expanding its global footprint and promoting sustainable finance.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 2006

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