Graduate Certificate in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance

Enhance your knowledge of financial crime investigation and compliance in this fast-growing field. If you’re a graduate or working professional looking to build your analytical skills and deepen your understanding of regulatory environments, this program helps you move toward specialist roles in risk, governance and financial crime prevention.

You’ll further develop your skills to:

• Better understand financial crime and compliance fundamentals: Explore key concepts in regulation, governance and risk.
• Apply investigative techniques: Use forensic accounting and fraud detection approaches to support investigations.
• Analyse financial data: Identify patterns and suspicious activity using quantitative tools.
• Understand digital and cyber risks: Examine how technology is used in both financial crime and prevention.
• Interpret regulatory frameworks: Understand how financial crime is addressed across legal and enforcement systems.

Build capability in a high-risk, high-demand field

With a focus on interpreting financial information, you’ll apply investigative thinking and understand how compliance functions operate across industries. You’ll also strengthen transferable skills including critical thinking, research, communication and data literacy, supporting both professional development and further study.

Study online and upskill in six months

Delivered 100% online, this graduate certificate can be completed in as little as six months of full-time study, offering a flexible way to upskill or transition into the field.

Recommended study pattern

As a guide, core subjects in this degree can include:

• Financial Crime Regulation and Compliance 
• Forensic Accounting, Fraud and Investigation 

Plus there’s a selection of electives to choose from. As part of your application, you’ll be guided through how to get the right degree structure in place for you.

Award requirements

For the award of Graduate Certificate in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance (GCertFCIC), you must successfully

Complete 40 credit points comprising:

• 40 credit points from Foundation Module

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Indicative total fee $17,000

The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.

Fees may vary depending on:

• the subjects you choose
• credit from previous work experience
• your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.

To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.

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QS World University Ranking 2026, within Australia:

18

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20

To be eligible for this program you must meet one of the following criteria:

• a recognised Bachelor degree (or higher)
• two years relevant work experience
• a combination of alternative admission criteria such as formal, informal and non-formal learning deemed to be equivalent to either of the above

Relevant work experience includes financial crime compliance, customer due diligence, KYC, anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing analysts, transaction monitoring, banking, accounting, finance, financial planning/advice, tax agent, economist, law, public service, investigation, compliance, risk assessment, risk/security analyst, insurance, cyber security, development and foreign aid, psychologist, criminology, criminal justice, fraud prevention, policing, forensics, military, international business, business-policy, researcher, data scientist, data analyst, systems analyst, information technology, information systems and business analysts

Commonwealth Bank of Australia cohort

Students wishing to complete this program under the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) corporate education scheme are required to complete a consent form providing Griffith University with permission to share their student information with the employer, CBA, in relation to the program

English language requirements apply to International applicants and other applicants whose previous study was undertaken in a language other than English. The minimum English language requirements for such applicants for entry to this program are as follows:

• A minimum overall band score of 6.5 on IELTS (Academic) with no sub-score of less than 6.0
• OR a minimum score of 575 on TOEFL
• OR an internet-based (iBT) TOEFL score of 79 (no sub-score less than 19)
• OR no score less than 3+ in each skill of the ISLPR (conducted by ISLPR Language Services only)
• OR a minimum overall score of 176 (no score less than 169) on C1 Advanced (formerly Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English) or C2 Proficiency (formerly Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English)
• OR an overall score of 58 in the Pearson Test of English (Academic) with no score less than 50.

English test results must be no more than two years old.

International students who successfully complete the Direct Entry Program (DEP) will satisfy the English Language requirements for this Griffith degree.

The Direct Entry Program (DEP) is not available for Domestic students.

Reduce the time it takes to finish your degree. You can apply to Griffith to recognise your prior learning, including:

• Formal learning through courses completed at uni and TAFE.
• Informal learning through workplace experience or volunteer training.
• Non-formal learning through social experiences and hobbies.