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Nicholas Doberer

Summary

Over 14 years of diverse experience in financial crime, successfully navigating regulatory, intelligence, investigations, and analytics roles. Focus on enhancing policies, fostering inter-governmental collaboration, managing teams effectively, disrupting criminal activities, and staying ahead of emerging trends through horizon scanning. Expertise lies in leveraging a comprehensive skill set to tackle complex challenges in the financial crime landscape.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Manager

HSBC
09.2019 - 04.2025
  • Global oversight of Transaction Monitoring (TM) for Wholesale banking customers
  • Led a global initiative to up-skill TM investigators with Wholesale banking expertise. The programme achieved a 30% uplift in AML investigator productivity globally (c.USD1.8M annual save) while significantly improving risk identification
  • Initiated a first of its kind risk-based approach to prioritise Investigation cases, addressing ever-evolving regulatory pressures around Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) reporting timeframes.
  • Supported the Group’s growth agenda by ensuring anti-money laundering controls remained effective to enable customer-facing teams to sustainably grow market share.

Financial Crime Compliance AML Manager

HSBC
10.2015 - 09.2019
  • Global financial crime Model Monitoring lead focusing on measuring the effectiveness of financial crime systems in line with regulatory expectations
  • Developed a global framework to measure the performance of TM models, including governance approach where gaps in risk coverage identified
  • Facilitated regular governance forums with senior leaders to discuss risk coverage gaps and potential controls to mitigate these risks

Team Leader, AML and Sanctions Transaction Monitoring

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11.2014 - 07.2015
  • Led the Group’s AML Investigations Team
  • Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) delegate to review and submit SARs to the regulator where I deemed an investigation confirmed financial crime perpetrated by the Group’s customers
  • Identified monitoring gaps and proposed new controls to mitigate the financial crime risk, working closely with analytics and frontline departments
  • Led delivery of AML typology training modules to Investigations staff across the Group

Analyst

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
05.2013 - 11.2014
  • Operational intelligence role working closely with law enforcement, security and revenue agencies investigating serious and organised crime including that related to people smuggling, foreign bribery, drug imports, and terrorism financing. This involved using federal and state intelligence databases, combined with rigorous human intelligence and open-source intelligence as required, to develop targeted and often time-critical operational intelligence reports that were disseminated to relevant agencies for action.
  • Coordinated Financial Intelligence Assessments which led to the identification of money laundering and other criminal networks. This involved analysing large data sets and translating this into succinct qualitative intelligence products
  • Assessed SARs reported by financial institutions, adding criminal intelligence insight and rapidly disseminating these intelligence products to targeted security and law enforcement agencies for immediate action, often leading to real-time arrests

Analyst

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
05.2011 - 05.2013
  • Australian law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The aim of this research was primarily to contribute toward discussions within the wider intelligence community around whole of government priorities, but also to support changes in government policy. Local financial institutions were also provided sanitised versions of this research (industry guidance) to assist with their AML programs.
  • Collaborated with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) with research relating to emerging money laundering risks and typologies
  • In 2011/12, off the back of classified intelligence research I coordinated, I recommended to government ministers to regulate cryptocurrencies using existing AML legislation. There were several challenges, but this effort led to legislative change and Australia became one of the first countries to regulate cryptocurrencies.
  • Key contributor to publicly released Australian federal government ‘Typologies and Case Studies Report’ and other industry guidance (see http://www.austrac.gov.au/publications).

Education

Master of Policing - Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Macquarie University
01.2010 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Social Science - Major in Criminology

Western Sydney University
01.2006 - 12.2008

Skills

Strategic planning

Talent development

Operations management

Resource allocation

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analytics

Data-driven decision making

Staff development

Decision-making

Anti-money laundering

Ethics and integrity

Suspicious activity reporting

Transaction monitoring

Internal controls

Financial intelligence

Timeline

Senior Manager

HSBC
09.2019 - 04.2025

Financial Crime Compliance AML Manager

HSBC
10.2015 - 09.2019

Team Leader, AML and Sanctions Transaction Monitoring

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11.2014 - 07.2015

Analyst

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
05.2013 - 11.2014

Analyst

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
05.2011 - 05.2013

Master of Policing - Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Macquarie University
01.2010 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Social Science - Major in Criminology

Western Sydney University
01.2006 - 12.2008

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