AML & Compliance Analyst - Senior Analyst
The Christchurch Casino is a key player in providing premier gaming entertainment and hospitality within the Christchurch CBD. We are also very much part of the broader community, through our community engagement and the Christchurch Casinos Charitable Community Trust. Reporting to and working closely with the AML Manager, this role plays an important part in protecting Christchurch Casino from money laundering, fraud, and other financial crime risks.
We're recruiting into our AML/CFT team, which is part of our Risk & Compliance function, and works closely with our host responsibility, security, surveillance, and operational teams.
We are looking for candidates interested in developing or advancing their career in financial crime as either an Analyst or Senior Analyst. The successful candidate will be offered either an Analyst or Senior Analyst position based on their experience and CCL’s assessment of their expertise across a range of areas. We're open to candidates across a range of career stages and will scope the role, salary and level accordingly.
About the role
Christchurch Casino is a reporting entity under the AML/CFT Act 2009. Our team manages Christchurch Casino’s obligations under the AML Act. Key tasks for the roles include producing and maintaining AML/CFT risk assessments, compliance programmes and SOPs, transaction monitoring and investigations, production and submission of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and PTRs and ensuring effective and ongoing engagement with the Department of Internal Affairs. You'll be working across cash-intensive, high-velocity gaming transactions where the typologies are genuinely different from banking or other sectors.
Key Focus Areas
Core responsibilities include ownership of transaction monitoring alerts, customer due diligence file reviews, and the production of high-quality SARs. Depending on the level at which you're appointed, the role may extend to leading more complex investigations, providing technical guidance, coaching, and quality-assurance of AML team outputs, contributing to our Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA) and typology register, development of new transaction monitoring initiatives and rules, acting as a point of escalation for higher-risk customer relationships and source-of-wealth reviews, supporting regulatory correspondence and reporting to the regulator and Board.
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate will have:
· Experience in AML/CFT, financial crime, fraud investigation, intelligence, or a related compliance function. The nature and extent of your experience will determine the level at which you're appointed.
· Sound understanding of (or strong willingness to quickly learn) the AML/CFT Act 2009 and DIA supervisory expectations
· Excellent attention to detail and comfort working through structured investigations and case files
· Clear, confident written communication (you'll be drafting file notes that stand up to regulatory scrutiny)
· For Senior Analyst candidates: a track record of SAR preparation, enhanced due diligence and complex AML/CFT investigations, working knowledge of casino, gaming, or another cash-intensive sector's ML/TF typologies (highly regarded but not essential), and confidence providing technical guidance, quality assurance and coaching to others.
This role suits people who like precision work with real consequences, and who want to build a genuine specialism in financial crime within one of New Zealand's most tightly regulated industries.
Why join us?
The role offers:
· Working within a reporting entity that faces unique AML/CFT risks and challenges
· A financial crime role directly connected to business operations
· Exposure to a wide range of AML/CFT obligations, investigations and regulatory requirements.
· Exposure to regulatory, law enforcement and intelligence-facing aspects of financial crime compliance.
· A close-knit, experienced Risk & Compliance team that will provide you with an accelerated opportunity to develop and hone your financial crime skills across all AML/CFT areas and obligations
In addition, Christchurch Casino offers:
· Central Christchurch location with onsite parking
· On-job training and development
· Discounted food in the Casino bars and restaurants
· Paid meal breaks
· Fully subsidised medical Insurance after 6 months of employment
· Active employee social club with regular events and draws
Apply now with your CV and cover letter to play a key role in protecting the integrity and reputation of Christchurch Casino.
To request a copy of the position descriptions email Amber Aynsley, People & Culture Advisor at amber@christchurchcasino.co.nz
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so don’t wait—apply today!
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