Pieter de Rooij

Head of Financial Crime Transformation at Westpac

Greater Sydney Area

About

Highly motivated and organised leader with over 18 years experience in mainly Financial Services and Financial Crime, delivering customer value through business and technology solutions. Currently leading a Financial Crime Transformation Portfolio of 120+ FTE, delivering financial crime solutions across multiple capabilities (AML, CDD, Customer Screening, Payment Sanctions, data reconciliations, etc.), business units and jurisdictions. Also involved in FinTech startup offering innovative solutions to address the growing dynamics of financial crime.

Experience

  • Westpac (Full-time · 7 yrs)
    • Head of Financial Crime Transformation Portfolio
      Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Managing the Group's Financial Crime Transformation Portfolio of ~120 resources and multiple parallel strategic programs to transform Financial Crime Risk Management and protect our customers, communities and people.

    • Program Director - Financial Crime Delivery
      Jul 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Managing a number of programs (~80 FTE), delivering business and technology solutions across a range of financial crime capabilities.

  • Partner at Sygno
    Mar 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

    Sygno was founded in 2013 by international experts and a clear vision to address the growing dynamics of financial crime with result driven solutions. Sygno solutions are based on top-class analytics, agile platforms and extensive experience in management of Financial Crime.

  • PDR Consulting Ltd (Sydney, Australia)
    • Project Director - Financial Crime Platform
      Apr 2017 - Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Contracting for Westpac, managing a project team (~25 FTE) in the Agile delivery of a centralised financial crime platform and operating model, covering multiple capabilities (e.g. AML, CTF, Sanctions), enabling the bank to mature the management of Financial Crime risk.

    • Senior Project Manager - Business Performance & Analytics
      Feb 2016 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Contracting for Westpac, managing a project team in the delivery of data management capabilities (reference data and data lineage) to enable appropriate management of critical data elements within the Risk Division.

  • Senior Manager - Digital Services at Capgemini
    Feb 2012 - Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Led complex digital transformation initiatives across the financial services and aviation sectors, serving as Project Manager and Lead Business Analyst. Key projects included: Virgin Australia’s migration to a new airline platform, where I led the Business Process Redesign stream; NAB’s core banking upgrade, where I managed the workflow stream and aligned delivery with future-state operating models; and Rabobank’s enterprise-wide rollout of a unified customer view, where I directed change impact assessments and established governance around customer data.

  • Senior Project Manager - Group Legal & Compliance at Raiffeisen Bank International AG
    Oct 2008 - Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    As Central Project Manager, I led the rollout of a group-wide AML solution across 18 countries in Central & Eastern Europe, Asia, and the US, tailoring implementations to meet local regulatory requirements. I established a centralised financial crime operations shared services unit to improve coordination and efficiency, and oversaw local delivery teams (6–12 FTE) through the full project lifecycle—from gap analysis and process design to implementation—ensuring compliance and operational readiness in each market.