Manager - Compliance Strategy and Assurance

Canberra, ACT (The agency supports and promotes flexible working, including remote options on negotiation)
- Ongoing/Non Ongoing (Non-ongoing will be offered for 12 months)
- $145,311 - $171,175 + Superannuation

**About the Branch**:
The Compliance Branch provides specialist services in investigations, enforcement, targeted outreach and education, audit, intelligence and analytics and participant assessment. The Compliance Branch works closely with all areas of the agency, but predominantly the scheme operations teams, our internal lawyers and our internal fraud team. Timely and effective progressing of matters is essential and KPIs and governance arrangements are in place to support this.

The Branch comprises of four sections and specific work includes:

- Compliance and Enforcement Section - undertaking proactive and reactive compliance activities including investigations and developing and delivering compliance and engagement programs to prevent, detect and address serious non-compliance across schemes administrated by the agency.
- Intelligence and Assessment Section - providing a centralised intelligence function that produces tactical, operational and strategic insights to support business areas, maintaining an ongoing participant monitoring function and coordinating engagement and collaboration with other regulators and undertaking a preliminary assessment triage function for all referrals received by the Branch.
- Compliance Strategy and Assurance Section - driving the engagement on strategic compliance policy initiatives, reporting on compliance effectiveness and providing a centralised scheme audit and assurance function.

**About the Section**:
The section is responsible for driving engagement on strategic compliance policy initiatives and providing a centralised greenhouse and energy audit and assurance function within the agency. We aim to maximise the value the CER gets from using auditors to provide assurance over the schemes we administer. The section is also dedicated to ensuring that the CER has compliance policies that are well thought through and implemented.

The section has 3 main streams of work:

- Running the annual greenhouse and energy Audit Program and assessing audit reports provided to the CER under the different schemes it administers,
- Managing registered greenhouse and energy auditors and,
- Developing and advising on compliance policies, including regulatory design and refinement.

The section is divided into 2 teams:

- The Audit Team — dealing with audits and auditors,
- The Strategic Compliance Policy Team — focused on policy issues, legislation and guidance, and managing compliance priorities and updates.

**Role Responsibilities and Duties**:
Duties of the Manager, Compliance Strategy and Assurance will include but not limited to:

- Working with a high level of autonomy under broad direction, manage and lead the section to deliver high quality audit and assurance and compliance strategy services.
- Working as a part of the branch executive to achieve strategic branch outcomes.
- Initiating activities and strategies to build and lead a high performing team, including successful coaching and development of staff, and mobilising the capability, strength and leadership of others.
- Thinking strategically to undertake complex analysis and interpretation to develop solutions and make recommendations.
- Establishing and maintaining key strategic internal and external networks to identify strategic regulation and compliance enhancement opportunities.
- Taking responsibility for the achievements of own and section outcomes, monitor progress and follow through to deliver quality outcomes.
- Performing effective and accountable financial management and budgeting activities.

**Qualifications/Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience in leading and developing a high performing team.
- Experience in leading through change will be highly regarded.
- Experience in audit and assurance and a working knowledge of Commonwealth procurement are desirable but not essential.
- Demonstrated ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

**Applications close 11.30pm on Sunday, 11 May 2025