Senior Regulation Analyst

About us

The Department of Treasury and Finance provides economic, financial and resource management advice to help the Victorian Government deliver its policies. We strive for excellence in financial and economic management to improve the lives of all Victorians.

The Housing Registrar

The role of Senior Regulation Analyst is located within the Office of the Housing Registrar. The Housing Registrar team is responsible for the regulation of the community housing sector in Victoria under the Housing Act 1983.

The Housing Registrar regulates Victoria's community housing sector by monitoring the performance and financial viability of registered agencies. The regulatory system helps to ensure that the sector is sustainable and meets the needs of renters. It also facilitates growth and development of the sector through targeted capability building.

The Victorian Government's $5.3 Billion Big Housing Build has generated significant interest from the not-for-profit and private sectors, including consortiums, joint ventures and public private partnerships.

About the role

Reporting to the Manager Regulation, you will be a senior member of the Housing Registrar team with clear autonomy over your work program. You will be the lead analyst for a portfolio of registered community housing agencies, providing expert, evidence-based advice.

You will be switching between deep analytical tasks-data analysis, regulatory reporting, and reform design-and strategic, cross-government initiatives. You will be engaging directly with agency boards and executives, tenants' representatives, and government partners to test evidence, explain expectations, and resolve issues. You will also be shaping regulatory reform projects and continuous improvement initiatives that lift sector performance and outcomes.

Key Selection Criteria

• The ability to autonomously deliver and influence desired outcomes in a complex stakeholder environment. Proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders.
• Strong financial regulatory, compliance or risk management expertise. Capacity to apply these skills to assess registrations, categorisations and ongoing compliance and monitoring activities.
• Sound analytical skills including using data to support and influence decision making.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, evidenced by an ability to prepare clear advice and recommendations, using a range of information sources, including complex briefs and reports.
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills to reach desired outcomes whilst balancing competing stakeholders' interests.
• Good project management skills to manage and deliver complex regulatory reform and joint government projects within timelines whilst managing competing workload.

Experience and qualifications

• More than 5 years relevant experience is required as is a relevant tertiary qualification.

About our culture

We aim to be a model employer providing an inclusive workplace that is understanding and respectful of differences such as gender, identity, race, disability or age. In addition, we are committed to supporting Aboriginal pathways between education and employment.

The Department strives to create an environment that supports a flexible and adaptive workforce. All requests for flexible working arrangements will be considered in line with operational requirements.

Further Information

If you are a VPS employee and identified as the preferred candidate during the recruitment process, you will need to obtain approval from your manager and Executive Director to take up this role as a secondment.

For more information about the position and key selection criteria, please refer to the position description. If you have specific questions regarding the role, please contact Jessica Griffin-Achmad on

How to apply

To apply, select the `Apply Now' button and provide a copy of your resume and cover letter summarising your skills and relevant experience.

Applications close at midnight on 7 January 2026. If you require a copy of this advertisement in an accessible format, please contact the Recruitment team.

Covid-19 Vaccination

DTF is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act). To support this DTF has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DTF employees be fully vaccinated.