Senior Compliance Manager - Frameworks & Financial Crime

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team & role

The Senior Compliance Manager - Frameworks & Financial Crime, is responsible for developing and maintaining Xero’s enterprise compliance framework and financial crime compliance programs and policies. Reporting directly to the General Manager Enterprise Compliance, you will be instrumental in safeguarding the company’s integrity and reputation. With previous experience in developing and maintaining frameworks, including financial crime, you will ensure that Xero effectively meets its regulatory and legal obligations, thereby enhancing operational integrity and maintaining compliance within Board-approved risk appetite settings. Your expertise in providing guidance and stakeholder management will foster a culture of compliance throughout the organization. Ultimately, your contributions will play a critical role in supporting Xero’s strategic goals and upholding high standards of ethical conduct.

This dynamic role offers both variety and challenge, requiring strong stakeholder engagement skills to oversee regulatory reporting, lead compliance reviews, drive process improvements, and conduct enterprise-wide risk assessments. It’s a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a respected and growing organisation.

What you'll do

• Design and maintain Xero’s enterprise compliance framework and supporting programs, policies and processes.
• Develop and maintain Xero’s financial crime compliance program, including sanctions, fraud and AML.
• Lead and conduct compliance reviews and risk assessments, monitor business activities, and support the submission of SMR reports to AUSTRAC.
• Act as the subject matter expert on regulatory requirements, including engagement with regulators.
• Develop strong stakeholder relationships, hosting training sessions and workshops, and engaging with the wider business.
• Support and oversight the business to ensure effective management of day-to-day compliance and financial crime compliance activities, including sanctions, fraud, AML, transaction monitoring (TM), and know your customer (KYC).

What you'll bring with you

• A minimum of 7 years' experience in compliance and financial crime compliance, ideally with expertise in second line risk and/or compliance roles.
• Exposure to financial services within a globally matrixed organisation is preferred but not essential.
• In-depth knowledge of the Australian regulatory environment and prior experience working in the Australian market. 
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to prepare and pitch presentations, liaise with internal and external stakeholders, and influence peers.
• Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape impacting the Australian payments and financial services sectors. An understanding of the regulatory landscape in the UK and US is highly desirable.
• Experience in designing and executing AML risk assessments.

Why Xero? 

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.