Senior Compliance Manager, Financial Services Compliance, Afterpay ANZ
Leads Line 2 compliance for Afterpay ANZ, overseeing regulatory frameworks, licensing, monitoring, reporting, incident management, and advisory support for regulated financial services products. Requires 10+ years of Australian financial services compliance and risk experience plus relevant tertiary qualifications.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Support the Head of Compliance in ensuring the Compliance Function and Compliance Risk Management Framework operate effectively and meet regulatory expectations.
- Lead the Compliance Framework and Program, including documenting and maintaining policies, standards, and procedures.
- Build, embed, and maintain governance, risk, and compliance frameworks for regulated financial services products.
- Maintain Afterpay's Australian Credit License, including governance, compliance oversight, due diligence, and annual compliance certificate submissions to ASIC.
- Manage monitoring, reporting, audit, and testing activities, including reporting to regulators, the Board, and internal governance committees.
- Assist with compliance incident management and reportable situation assessments.
- Lead projects to assess, implement, and monitor adherence to new regulatory obligations and policies.
- Oversee compliance risk assessments for new financial products, services, and initiatives.
- Maintain compliance risk management databases, registers, project plans, issue and incident logs, risk assessments, and action logs.
- Educate business teams on compliance risks, mitigation strategies, and options.
- Advise management and business partners on implementing and operating compliance programs.
- Report on compliance risks, trends, and key performance metrics.
- Drive risk culture and compliance awareness in day-to-day business decisions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a compliance and risk professional in Australian financial services environments.
- Knowledge of obligations applying to regulated financial services products and maintenance of financial services regulatory licenses.
- Experience building and maintaining frameworks for regulated financial services products.
- Experience with regulatory interactions and investigations, including information requests, audits, and management action plans.
- Broad financial services compliance expertise, including regulated consumer credit, BNPL compliance, payment systems regulation, P2P/non-cash payment facilities, financial services licensing, marketing collateral review and approval, design and distribution obligations, AML, collections, consumer protection, anti-bribery and corruption, and other conduct-related areas.
- Experience identifying, recording, overseeing remediation of incidents and issues, and escalating or reporting them to appropriate teams or regulators.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Data and technical focus, with the ability to analyze, assess, and operationalize new and emerging regulatory obligations.
- Experience using innovative tools such as AI to improve compliance outcomes.
Benefits
- Remote work options
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning benefits
Skills
Compliance Risk Management, Financial Services Regulation, Australian Credit License, Asic, Consumer Credit, Buy Now Pay Later, Payment Systems, AML, Regulatory Licensing, Risk Assessments, Incident Management, Audit, Artificial Intelligence
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