The Deputy CEO, Intelligence provides strategic leadership and stewardship of AUSTRAC's intelligence capability, ensuring the effective governance, integration and use of financial intelligence across the enterprise to protect the Australian community from money laundering, terrorism financing and serious financial crime. The role is accountable for establishing and leading AUSTRAC's Intelligence Division, embedding intelligence-led regulation, and ensuring intelligence capabilities are aligned to national priorities, emerging threats and risk-based harm reduction outcomes. As a member of AUSTRAC's Executive Leadership Group (ELG), the Deputy CEO, Intelligence contributes to whole-of-agency strategy, governance and decision-making, and provides authoritative advice and recommendations to the CEO and fellow executives. The role plays a critical leadership function in driving organisational performance, cultural maturity and transformation in line with APS reform priorities. AUSTRAC is committed to implementing the SES Performance Framework, strengthening behaviour- and outcomes-based performance, accountability and transparency across the SES cohort. The Deputy CEO, Intelligence is expected to model the Secretary's Charter of Leadership Behaviours and uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism and ethical leadership. Secretaries Charter of Leadership Behaviours | Australian Public Service Commission (apsc.gov.au) The key duties of the position include The Deputy CEO, Intelligence is accountable to the Chief Executive Officer and responsible for: • Providing strategic leadership as a member of the Executive Leadership Group, contributing to AUSTRAC's governance, strategic planning, organisational performance and transformation agenda • Exercising enterprise-wide stewardship of financial intelligence, ensuring governance, capability, systems and workforce are aligned, integrated and fit-for-purpose • Leading the Intelligence Division by directing AUSTRAC's efforts to areas of highest risk and harm, informed by National Risk Assessments, National Intelligence Community missions and Serious and Organised Crime Coordination Committee priorities • Collaborating with National Managers and senior leaders to deliver intelligence operations that detect, deter and disrupt money laundering, terrorism financing and serious and organised financial crime • Providing executive leadership to the Intelligence Division, fostering a high-performing, inclusive and resilient workforce that is empowered to deliver complex intelligence outcomes • Overseeing the delivery of priority intelligence programs and products that inform operational, regulatory and policy decision-making across government and with domestic and international partners • Managing relationships with key law enforcement and national security partners, international colleagues and private sector partners • Supporting the CEO in the role of head of a national security agency • Providing authoritative strategic advice to the CEO, Ministers, executives and governance committees on intelligence priorities, risks, emerging threats and capability development
