# Senior Compliance Manager, Financial Services Compliance, Afterpay ANZ

**Company:** [Square](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/square)
**Location:** Sydney, Australia
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 10+ years
**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
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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