Who are we?

The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) is responsible for managing the application of bankruptcy and personal property securities laws through the delivery of high-quality personal insolvency and trustee, regulation and enforcement, and personal property securities services.

The Regulatory Operations Group is responsible for operations in Regulatory Services and Enforcement and Practitioner Surveillance. This work operationalizes AFSA’s strategy, delivering integrated end to end regulatory services that supports clients through AFSA systems and ensures compliance in line with AFSA’s approach to regulation to: People centric, Outcomes focused, Harms based, Intelligence led, and Strengths based.

About the Roles

The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) is seeking skilled professionals to fill multiple (4) EL1 vacancies within Regulatory Operations Group:

Assistant Director, Business Operations & Delivery

As the Assistant Director, through the delivery of operational and strategic projects, business improvement and education initiatives, you will support the division to maintain compliance and improve practices in the way Official Receiver delivers its statutory functions as a regulatory steward of the insolvency system. The Official Receiver division maintains strong partnerships with financial counsellors, trustees, and debt agreement administrators, ensuring a balanced and equitable execution of our statutory responsibilities.

Assistant Director NPII Assessment, Audit and Maintenance

In this role you will be responsible for maintaining the National Personal Insolvency Index (NPII) which is a publicly accessible electronic database that records certain personal insolvency proceedings in Australia. The NPII Assessment, Audit, and Maintenance Team ensures compliance with relevant legislation by auditing and reviewing both users and the data contained within the NPII. Additionally, the team manages the ongoing maintenance of the index, including handling amendment requests and overseeing contracts with NPII stakeholders.

Assistant Director Targeted Harms

The Assistant Director Targeted Harms leads and manages a team in the development, consultation, delivery and evaluation of regulatory operations. You will work across regulatory operations to conduct advance analytics, operational and strategic analysis, and reports on a range of agency objectives including legislative reform. The role drives organisational objectives by continuously improving the analytical and intelligence products and services as well as a commitment to building analytics capabilities.

Assistant Director Technical

This position sits within the Surveillance section and monitors compliance of practitioners, undertakes statutory reviews, deals with complaints, assesses practitioner suitability for registration and takes disciplinary action. In this role, you will bring highly technical expertise and will be involved in preparing external reports such as the Regulatory Action Statement, compliance reports, Annual report, and PIR newsletter.

Qualifications and experience

While not essential, previous regulatory experience, insolvency, finance industry experience and/or relevant tertiary qualifications would be well regarded. Relevant vocational or tertiary qualifications include Law, Accounting, Commerce, Communications, Education, or relevant disciplines from an Australian tertiary institution (or comparable overseas institution).

Why AFSA?

You will enjoy excellent conditions including:

Generous superannuation (15.4%)
A modern work environment
Access to Employee Assistance Provider
Flexibility to balance work and personal life (including working from home arrangements and flexible start and finish times where applicable).
We are a workplace committed to providing an environment that values diversity and supports staff to reach their full potential.

We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.

At AFSA we encourage every employee balance their family commitments and personal interests with flexible working options.

Eligibility

Please note that this opportunity is open only to Australian Citizens.

The successful applicant must have or be willing to undergo and maintain a security clearance to the level of Baseline vetting as a condition of employment.

To satisfy character requirements all AFSA employees must undergo a police records check.

Where a person has received a redundancy benefit from APS agency employment and their corresponding redundancy benefit period has not expired, they may be ineligible for employment.

This recruitment process is being used to fill current ongoing positions. A merit pool of suitable candidates may be established as a result of this process to assist AFSA to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions that may become available over the next 18 months from the date of the original advertisement.

How to apply

Applications for this vacancy are submitted online through the AFSA careers portal.

If accessing the AFSA careers portal for the first time you will need to register. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to confirm your registration. This link has an expiration of 15 minutes. If the link expires, you need to request a new code by clicking 'Forgot Password?' and check your emails. Make sure to check your Junk folder if you don't see this email in your Inbox. Please note that the registration process only needs to be completed once.

If you do not receive the email with link, please contact [email protected] during business hours.

Once you have confirmed your registration, to complete your application, you need to:

Click the 'Apply' button below which will open the AFSA careers portal
Provide evidence in the education/qualifications section of your application, if applicable
Complete a short questionnaire (mandatory
Provide the full name, employer, and contact details of at least two referees, one of which must be your current or most recent manager
Ensure that all mandatory fields (marked with a red banner) are completed
Your application must include both:
a current resume / CV (no more than 3 pages), and
a one (1) page pitch telling us how your education, skills, knowledge, and experience make you suitable for EL1 regulatory roles at AFSA.
Please state your role preference/s in your pitch.
Please review the Candidate Information Pack for important application and assessment expectation information.

The closing date for this position is 11:59pm AEST, Sunday, 29 September 2024

If you are having difficulties accessing or applying for this vacancy or have any questions, please contact [email protected].