The Regulatory Breach Specialist is responsible for leading complex incident investigations, ensuring that findings are accurate, well-evidenced, and clearly documented. This role involves providing guidance and technical expertise to junior analysts on investigation methodology and significance assessments.
Key accountabilities
Lead complex incident investigations ensuring findings are accurate, well-evidenced and clearly documented.
Provide guidance and technical expertise to junior analysts on investigation methodology and significance assessments.
Monitor, interpret, and advise on changes to relevant legislation and guidance in relation to breach reporting.
Maintain a high level of awareness of regulatory trends and expectations to ensure ongoing alignment.
Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or risks in breach reporting and incident assessment processes and recommend enhancements to ensure accuracy, timeliness and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Contribute to the development, review, and maintenance of policies, procedures, and frameworks relating to incident and breach management.
Preparation of high-quality submissions for relevant committees, management and regulators.
Coach and mentor breach analysts to build capability in legal and regulatory analysis, investigation skills, and report writing.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications
Essential
Tertiary qualification in Law or similar specialisation.
Demonstrated knowledge of relevant financial services regulation.
Robust analytical skills with ability to assess incident and breach significance under multiple regimes.
Exceptional written communication skills, with ability to draft high-quality regulatory notifications, internal reports, and recommendations.
Proven ability to manage multiple matters in a high-volume, rapid-paced workplace.
Stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
Experience working within a financial services compliance, regulatory affairs, or legal function.
Experience liaising directly with regulators.
Familiarity with GRC tools.
Knowledge of prudential standards and governance frameworks.