Intelligence Analyst

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)
- $90,534 - $95,099 + Superannuation

**About the Branch**:
The Compliance Branch provides specialist services to support efficient and effective compliance actions across all CER schemes. These services can include actions and activities that will help the agency to better understand who the participants are and to explain their behaviours so that we can provide targeted and timely guidance and outreach activities to enable them to meet their obligations. The Branch can also help to detect non-compliance and to facilitate and enforce compliance within each scheme.

The Branch has four sections:

- _ 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. This section produces intelligence reports to support business areas. It also provides a preliminary assessment triage function for referrals of non-compliance. Its work includes maintaining an ongoing participant monitoring function and coordinating engagement and collaboration with other regulators.
- _ 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 Intelligence and Assessment section provides several enabling functions including a centralised intelligence and assessment function to support scheme administration and entry, and compliance and enforcement actions. It is a dynamic area, with lots of opportunities for collaboration and exploration of the strategic environment. There is a strong culture of professional development and exposure to work areas across the agency, including direct engagement with senior management.
- The intelligence function comprises the collection and analysis of information that aims to support the operational, and strategic decision making of the agency and to detect non-compliance.
- The Preliminary Assessment Team undertakes an intelligence and assessment triage function for all complaints, referrals, tip offs and information and data requests that are received by the Compliance Branch.

**Role Responsibilities and Duties**:
Under general direction, the Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for:

- Conducting moderately complex to complex research and analysis using multiple information sources to inform regulatory decision-making and protect the integrity of agency schemes.
- Preparing intelligence reports, briefing material and communicating findings to inform agency compliance, enforcement activities and risk management.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders, responding needs and expectations.
- Maintaining a sound understanding of relevant legislation, policy frameworks and operational procedures.
- Supporting the assessment team on a rotational basis.
- Contributing to the setting of work priorities and practices, monitoring workflow and conducting quality assurance for the outputs of other staff in the section.
- Maintaining technical expertise in agency systems and data holdings, interrogating data sets, and contributing to business and process improvement.

**Qualifications/Experience**:
The following experience will be highly regarded and desirable:

- Intelligence experience in a regulatory environment.
- Experience analysing large datasets to draw meaningful conclusions.
- Ability to use initiative to address problems and suggest improvements.
- Ability to succinctly report on complex matters and provide recommendations to support decision making.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Well-developed and grammatically correct written communication skills.

**Applications close 11.30pm on Sunday, 18 May 2025