Senior Solicitor/Analyst, Enforcement
Contribute to APRA's role as prudential regulator of financial institutions. Join a genuinely flexible, family-friendly and inclusive culture with hybrid working arrangements. Support our Enforcement mandate to provide legal and enforcement advice across various aspects of financial services.
The Role
You will support APRA's Enforcement mandate to prevent and address serious prudential risks and to hold entities and individuals to account. Your work will cover the breadth of APRA's enforcement activity and will include:
Delivering on enforcement projects and conducting investigations into regulated entities;
Providing high quality, practical legal/enforcement advice embodying APRA's risk appetite, including advising on strategy, litigation, enforcement, and regulatory issues relating to APRA's functions and powers;
Collaborating effectively with stakeholders across the organisation, including jointly formulating strategy with stakeholders in industry aligned supervision teams across APRA on a range of complex issues that are often novel and untested;
Developing and enhancing APRA's enforcement infrastructure;
Supporting the wider Legal team in engagement with stakeholders.
The Team
The Enforcement team provides legal and enforcement advice across various aspects of financial services, corporate and administrative law, and prudential regulation, involving banks, credit unions, building societies, general insurance and reinsurance companies, life insurance, private health insurance, friendly societies, and most of the superannuation industry. The Enforcement team also plays a key role in APRA's co-administration of the Financial Accountability Regime.
Key stakeholders will primarily be from one or more of APRA's frontline supervision divisions and APRA senior executives. You will also have a key role in providing support to other APRA divisions and initiatives involving peer Commonwealth agencies.
Key Responsibilities:
Either individually or as part of a team, delivering high quality, practical enforcement advice embodying APRA's risk appetite to internal stakeholders; this should be informed by a 'one-APRA' mindset;
Supporting managers and other colleagues in project managing and supporting Enforcement colleagues in the delivery of enforcement outcomes;
Having strong project management skills, internal (senior internal supervisors) and external stakeholder management (supervised entities and their legal advisers, external law firms, and Counsel instructed by APRA);
Establishing rapport with stakeholders quickly and understanding where APRA Enforcement can add value.
About You
You will have legal and/or regulatory investigation experience and relevant tertiary qualifications, which may include investigative, legal, or accounting qualifications.
Applicants will also ideally have:
Well-developed communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills;
Excellent organisation, self and priority management skills;
Openness to learning and adapting in a dynamic environment;
Supportive and inclusive working style and the ability to work with interstate and blended teams;
Experience in one or more of the industries regulated by APRA.
To work with us, you need to be an Australian citizen with eligibility to gain a Baseline Security clearance.
About APRA
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) places you at the heart of Australia's financial services industry. APRA serves the Australian community by helping ensure financial institutions deliver on the financial commitments they make, within a stable, efficient and competitive financial system.
At APRA we're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs, feels valued, and respected. We aspire to attract and foster diversity of background, thought, and experience, recognising that a broad range of perspectives, approaches, and ideas makes us stronger, and better enables us to meet our obligation to protect the financial wellbeing of the Australian community. When applying, please inform us of any adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Job ID APR1552
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