Governance Specialist

**Governance Specialist - Personal Injury | Sydney and Charlestown**

At Allianz, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading insurance and asset management brands, with a workforce as diverse as the world around us.

We care about our customers, which is why we hire the very best people to further our commitment to securing the future of our customers, partners, and the community so we’re ready when they need it most.

We offer our people a workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back and feel proud to be a part an organisation doing meaningful work that matters like tackling climate change, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

**The role**

In this role you’ll be at the forefront of driving positive risk culture, and the cornerstone in ensuring seamless alignment across policies, procedures, databases, and reporting to support our Underwritten Workers Compensation and Distribution business. Working across multiple jurisdictions you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring the business remains compliant with regulatory requirements, while supporting strategic business objectives and positive customer outcomes.

**You'll be responsible for**
- **Regulatory Database Management**: Ensuring the regulatory database accurately captures all significant interactions with regulators in each jurisdiction. You’ll be responsible or maintaining up-to-date records and facilitating communications with regulatory bodies.
- **Regulatory and Legislative Monitoring**: Managing changes in regulatory and legislative landscapes, keeping abreast of updates and ensuring timely submissions. You will act as a liaison within the Underwritten Workers Compensation and Distribution business as well as cross-divisionally to ensure compliance with new requirements.
- **Regulatory Levies Coordination**:Supporting and coordinating regulatory levies by tracking obligations across jurisdictions, confirming calculations are correct, facilitating approvals, and ensuring payments are processed within specified timeframes.
- **Statutory Returns Process Management**:Collaborating with Finance, Actuaries, and Analytics Teams to deliver annual statutory returns and monthly regulatory data submissions ensuring alignment between business operations and reporting.
- **Business Continuity Preparedness (BCP)**: Collaborating with the Enterprise Resilience Team to ensure the Underwritten Workers Compensation & Distribution BCP remains current, and the organisation is equipped to effectively respond to disruptions and notify regulators of BCP events.
- **Governance, Risk, and Compliance**: Monitoring and delivering business requirements related to governance, risk, and compliance, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, internal policies, procedures, and frameworks, as well as industry best practice.
- **Project Management Support**: Providing project management support as needed, including briefing notes and coordinating activities to drive successful outcomes.

**About you**
- Proven experience in the insurance industry, with a solid understanding of regulatory and legislative compliance requirements affecting the organisation
- Demonstrated ability to effectively partner and collaborate with stakeholders, fostering strong professional relationships and influencing outcomes positively
- Proven experience preparing comprehensive reports, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with organisational standards and compliance requirements
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively, manage competing resources and demands, and organise tasks to achieve optimal efficiency
- Exhibit a high level of attention to detail by completing tasks thoroughly and accurately, with the ability to quickly identify and correct errors and inconsistencies within information
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying information with clarity, impact, and influence on audiences at all levels
- Experience in a regulatory, legal, technical, risk, governance, or policy role (desirable)

**Benefits and perks**
- Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day
- Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible and remote work options and workplace adjustments, with support for your work/life balance.
- Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
- Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program
- own a piece of your employer
- For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

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