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Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, Financial Services, Afterpay

Block· 30305 Risk - Compliance - Cash App
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Hybrid (Sydney)full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior compliance leadership role within Afterpay ANZ to lead and govern the financial services compliance program, licensing, governance and frameworks across Australia and New Zealand.

Responsibilities

  • Support the Head of Compliance to ensure the Compliance Function and the Compliance Risk Management Framework operates effectively and meets regulatory expectations.
  • Lead the Compliance Framework and Program, documenting and maintaining policies, standards, and procedures for all aspects of the program.
  • Work with the business, global risk and compliance functions to build, embed and maintain governance, risk and compliance frameworks to support regulated financial services products.
  • Maintain Afterpay's Australian Credit License, including governance, compliance oversight and due diligence, and the compilation and submission of the annual compliance certificate requirements with ASIC.
  • Manage monitoring, reporting, audit and testing activities, including reporting to regulators, Board and internal Governance committees.
  • Assist the business with compliance incident management and potential reportable situation assessments.
  • Lead and manage projects to assess, implement and monitor adherence to new regulatory obligations and policies.
  • Oversee compliance risk assessments on new financial products, services and initiatives to ensure they meet framework requirements.
  • Manage databases, registers and other records relating to compliance risk management.
  • Educate the business on compliance risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Advise internal management and business partners on the implementation and operation of compliance programs.
  • Report on compliance risks, trends and key performance metrics.
  • Drive a strong risk culture and awareness in day-to-day business decisions.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience as a compliance and risk professional in Australian financial services environments, with knowledge of obligations as they apply to regulated financial services products, and maintenance of financial services regulatory licenses.
  • Experience building and maintaining frameworks to support regulated financial services products.
  • Knowledge of regulatory interactions and investigations including managing information requests and audits, and developing and tracking management action plans.
  • Deep knowledge of financial services regulation and compliance across consumer credit, BNPL, payment systems regulation, licensing obligations, marketing collateral, design and distribution obligations, AML, collections, consumer protection, anti-bribery and corruption, and other conduct-related areas.
  • Experience identifying, recording and overseeing remediation of incidents and issues and escalating/reporting them to appropriate teams/regulators.
  • Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline.
  • Data and technical focus with ability to analyze, assess and operationalize new and emerging regulatory obligations; experience using AI to improve compliance outcomes.

Skills

Required:Compliance leadershipRegulatory licensing and ASIC complianceFramework development

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • medical insurance
  • flexible time off
  • retirement savings plans
  • modern family planning
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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