Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Wanted: “skilled anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism funding professional”.Expect to see many such job ads in the near future to plug a skills gap that Australia is struggling to fill – people trained in tracking down white-collar criminals and laundered money.Alice Saveneh-Murray and Swinburne student Julia Urban preparing to fight financial crime.Credit: Simon SchluterAustralian companies that don’t know their AMLs (anti-money-laundering) from their CTFs (counter-terrorism-financing) face a rude shock as new federal government regulations, due as early as next month, will require them to comply with a raft of new financial crime measures.Workers qualified to do the job are already in short supply. But several Australian universities are beginning to step in to remedy that shortfall.LoadingSwinburne University’s new “financial crime lab”, which launched on Friday at its Hawthorn campus, is designed to help fill the skills gap and to attract students looking to get a foot in the door of the growing sector.The lab will be run in partnership with KordaMentha, the firm best known for its high-profile insolvency work, but which is increasingly involved in cybersecurity and forensic accounting services, with the university spruiking the private-sector partnership as a “pioneering industry-university collaboration”.KordaMentha partner Alice Saveneh-Murray says demand for “skilled anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism funding professional” will soar in coming years.“We’re going to go from somewhere like 15,000 to over 100,000 reporting entities that will be required to employ a compliance officer, draft policies and procedures and do risk assessments and all of these things,” Saveneh-Murray said.
