About the Opportunity
Speirs Finance is a specialist lender with a strong reputation for building trusted relationships and delivering smart financial solutions. With a collaborative, down-to-earth culture, Speirs focuses on doing business better and has experienced consistent year on year growth due to their strong customer focus.
This role provides independent second-line oversight across operational risk and AML/CFT compliance. As the designated AML/CFT Compliance Officer, you’ll play a critical role in strengthening frameworks, advising the business, and ensuring regulatory obligations are met.
You’ll operate as a true partner to the leadership team across the business—offering insight, challenge and guidance to support effective risk management and decision-making.
This is an opportunity for you to feel supported in making suggestions and forge into new areas. “What we have always done” is not in Speirs’ DNA; pushing boundaries to be better than they were yesterday is at the heart of how they operate and you will play a key part in that.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide second-line oversight, challenge and risk advice
- Lead AML/CFT compliance framework and obligations
- Analyse incidents, trends and deliver meaningful insights
- Support resilience, business continuity and risk uplift
- Partner with stakeholders to strengthen risk culture
What You’ll Bring
You’re an experienced risk or assurance professional with a background in financial services (ideally with some non-bank lending expertise). You bring a strong understanding of operational risk frameworks and AML/CFT requirements, along with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
You will also have:
- Experience developing best-practice risk cultures
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability
- Clear communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ambition to truly own innovation through a risk lens
What’s on Offer
- High-impact second-line role with real influence
- Ownership that you don’t often see in the big banks
- Supportive, values-driven culture
- Enviable office location with a gym for your use
Next Seps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Sarah White a call on 027 505 3472 and quote Job ID 17698 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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