Manager, Regulatory Affairs

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee
- Manager - Regulatory Affairs

The opportunity
- Join a dynamic, high-performing team
- Sydney, New South Wales or Melbourne, Victoria
- Permanent, Full-Time

Your new role

As a member of the Regulatory team, this role is responsible for working alongside the Head of Regulatory in developing, enhancing and driving the implementation of QBE Australia Pacific’s (AUSPAC’s) Regulatory Change Management Framework within the business. The role will act as a key compliance adviser to the business on regulatory engagements and regulatory change projects and will play a key role in strengthening AUSPAC’s compliance risk culture through embedding best practice compliance management within the business.

The role will work with the regulatory change delivery team and will provide 2nd line advice, challenge and oversight on regulatory change across the business, helping to ensure that these changes and proactively managed in a sustainable manner.

Key Responsibilities:

- Leadership
- As a member of the Regulatory team, work alongside the Head of Regulatory, to influence and motivate the business to achieve compliance by design by incorporating best practice compliance risk management controls into business processes.
- Strategy and Planning
- Assist the Head of Regulatory in devising input and strategic direction into the AUSPAC Technical Compliance team’s strategy and workplan (including vision, roadmap and priorities).
- Ensure effective communication and dissemination of the compliance strategy, policies and processes.
- Policy, Process and Procedures
- Ensure that regulatory change is managed in accordance with AUSPAC’s compliance risk management framework.
- Influence key stakeholders in ensuring regulatory change is prioritised and proactively managed in a sustainable manner.
- Work with the project delivery team, to assist the business in understanding regulatory change deliverables.
- Regularly review and advise on the key risk indicators (KRIs) for compliance risk.
- Partner with the business to advise on and provide direction in the management of compliance risk in new initiatives and projects, including the strategic transformation projects.
- Provide meaningful insight to the business on the management of compliance and regulatory engagements.
- Provide input into the Compliance and Regulatory reports and updates for AUSPAC and Group board and committees.
- Environmental Awareness/Customer Focus
- Embed a compliant and customer focused culture across the organisation and, along with senior leaders, add value to internal customers through strategic insights and pragmatic suggestions to overcome regulatory roadblocks.
- Provide Line 2 insights to help enable the business to meet its initiatives or to initiate change in a fashion that mitigates compliance risk.
- Provide reports on compliance and regulatory matters at regular intervals to stakeholders including senior management and the Board as required.
- Build and maintain internal and external relationships across functional and organisational boundaries to achieve goals.

Technical Performance:

- Provide timely advice to the business on the interpretation of regulatory requirements and strategies for managing compliance and regulatory risk.
- Provide regular advice and reporting on potential regulatory changes so the business can proactively prepare for the change.
- Establish and maintain 2nd line compliance risk management processes.
- People Management
- Role model QBE’s DNA values and demonstrate the leadership capabilities to challenge and influence business unit leaders to embed strong risk practices.
- Share knowledge and insights with the team and business.

About you

Your story will include strong people leadership capabilities, strong interpersonal skills in establishing relationships with senior stakeholders, as well as effective time management to meet deadlines. In addition, you will have a highly developed skillset in administration experience, strong influencing skills, have been in a previous regulatory affairs position within the insurance or financial services sector, relevant tertiary qualifications (e.g. Law Degree), with at least 5-6 years’ experience within the compliance and governance space, as well as the ability to interpret and connect dots with large volumes of data.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

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