Position:

Senior Compliance Advisor

Reports To:

Head of Legal and Compliance (Retail)

Function:

Legal and Compliance Retail

Location:

Melbourne

EC Job Classification

Critical Infrastructure role:

No

Approved By:

General Counsel & Company Secretary This is either the CEO or the function GM.]

Approval Date:

19/10/2026

Last review date:

19/10/2026

Position Description

Position:

Senior Compliance Advisor

Reports To:

Head of Legal and Compliance (Retail)

Function:

Legal and Compliance Retail

Location:

Melbourne

EC Job Classification

Team Leader/Specialist

Critical Infrastructure role:

No

Approved By:

General Counsel & Company Secretary This is either the CEO or the function GM.]

Approval Date:

19/10/2026

Position creation date:

Last review date:

19/10/2026

Purpose

- To administer and maintain robust compliance processes, systems, and frameworks that ensure that the Retail Team within the Pacific Hydro group of companies (“Pacific Hydro Group”) meets its regulatory obligations.
- To ensure that the Pacific Hydro Retail Team stays informed of regulatory and industry changes, driving necessary adaptations within the business to maintain compliance in a rapidly changing regulatory environment, and influence the positioning of the business.
- Act as an effective and trusted advisor to the Retail Team with matters relating to regulation and compliance in a heavily regulated and highly energetic external environment.
- To manage and respond to regulatory inquiries and submissions with a focus on accuracy, timeliness, and professionalism.
- To identify, assess, and mitigate compliance risks while designing and implementing effective controls and solutions.




- Assisting Head of Legal and Compliance, Retail in developing the compliance management frameworks for Pacific Hydro Group’s retail business.
- Promote a good compliance culture across the retail business of Pacific Hydro Group by educating, advising, and supporting internal stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

- Monitoring and implementing an effective compliance program and framework, and playing a key role in driving improvements to the maturity and development of the regulatory compliance framework and program as needed, including but not limited to managing the ongoing updates, certification, maintenance, and assignment of accountabilities for the compliance and obligation registers.
- Coordinating, implementing, and developing processes and systems for breach and incident management, including the timely reporting of potential breaches to internal stakeholders, and the drafting of detailed and accurate responses to regulators.
- Providing commercially focused compliance advice and education to the business on the proactive management of compliance risks, and advice to the business in relation to both operational activities and strategic activities (e.g. regulatory change, entrance into new markets), effectively utilising legal resources where necessary.
- Coordinating, implementing,



developing and maintaining processes and systems for regular compliance monitoring and reporting, including reporting to external authorities (including but not limited to performance indicator reporting, environmental schemes).
- Advising and educating internal stakeholders within the Retail business unit on compliance obligations and acceptable levels of risk and conducting training sessions to promote compliance awareness, highlight gaps, and support the implementation of compliance solutions.
- Conducting compliance assessments and collaborating with business units to design and implement controls to address identified gaps effectively and annual testing of controls to ensure their effectiveness and efficiency.
- Working with compliance obligation owners to effectively manage compliance risks to an acceptable level, including advising the business on the development, design and implementation of controls to effectively mitigate risks identified.
- Supporting and coordinating internal and external reviews, audits and other compliance assurance and monitoring activities to ensure that the business complies with its obligations.
- Working with the Head of Legal and Compliance, Retail to build an understanding of risk across the business, with a focus on compliance risks.
- Keeping track of changes in energy and other related regulations, informing and driving regulatory changes within the business where required with a strategic and commercial focus.
- Acting as a point of contact with regulatory agencies, Government bodies, and other external stakeholders such as industry bodies.

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