“Partnership and collaboration are key to achieving organisational efficiency.”
Grace Mason
About
Grace provides AML/CTF and financial crime compliance, risk, and assurance advisory across financial services, banking, gaming, superannuation, remittance, digital currency exchanges and payments providers.
She is experienced in advising on the design and operating effectiveness of AML/CTF frameworks and systems and aligning non-financial risk exposure with organisational strategy. She has extensive financial crime experience and has been responsible for driving transformational change and navigating complexity in regulatory, intelligence, and policy environments.
Prior to joining KordaMentha in 2022, Grace spent over a decade at AUSTRAC working across regulatory, international, and intelligence functions. She is experienced in leading strategic transformation and technology programs, including regional business engagement and program delivery in ASEAN and Europe.
Grace is a proactive leader who leverages program and policy knowledge to promote operational outcomes and build key partnerships.
Expertise
- Transform – design and delivery of customer – centric strategies
- Functions – strategy, intelligence capability, technology and training
- Operations – intelligence and regulatory design and delivery, people management, budget management
- Governance – program board, strategy, regulation, financial crime, risk and assurance
- Industry – law enforcement, intelligence, financial regulation, international aid, technology
- Geography – ASEAN, Europe, South Africa
Education and accreditations
- Australian Institute of Company Directors, Graduate 2022
- Flinders University, Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management 2010
- University of New South Wales, Diploma of Education 2004
- University of Natal – South Africa, Bachelor of Arts 1997
