Head of Compliance
ANNA Money
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- Own and continuously improve ANNA Money Australia’s compliance framework across regulated products and services
- Lead day-to-day compliance oversight for AFSL / ACL / AML-CTF related obligations and ensure the business operates within approved permissions and controls
- Act as a senior compliance partner to Product, Operations, Credit, and Commercial teams so new products and changes are launched safely and pragmatically
- Manage regulatory relationships and regulatory engagement with bodies such as ASIC, AUSTRAC, and external partners as required
- Oversee breach, incident, complaint, and reporting processes, including ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and resolved properly
- Maintain and evolve core compliance artefacts including policies, registers, monitoring plans, control frameworks, and board / management reporting
- Support licensing workstreams and ongoing obligations across existing and future regulatory permissions
- Oversee outsourced / partner compliance dependencies across key external providers, schemes, and vendors
- Embed a strong compliance culture internally through training, coaching, and clear operating standards
- Work closely with leadership on medium-term regulatory capability building, including helping ANNA mature toward a more sophisticated regulated operating model over time
Requirements
- Significant experience in compliance, legal/compliance, or regulatory risk within Australian financial services
- Strong working knowledge of the Australian regulatory environment across some combination of AFSL, ACL, AML/CTF, payments, cards, lending, and financial services conduct obligations
- Experience operating in a regulated fintech, bank, lender, payments business, or similarly complex financial services environment
- Demonstrated ability to build and improve compliance frameworks, not just maintain inherited ones
- Comfortable working closely with product and commercial teams and balancing pace with control
- Strong judgement, personal accountability, and ability to operate calmly in ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief executives and translate regulatory issues into business decisions
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional work to completion
- Nice to Have
- Experience supporting or leading AFSL / ACL applications, variations, or ongoing licence management
- Experience working with ASIC and/or AUSTRAC directly
- Experience in cards, principal issuing, business lending, or payments infrastructure
- Experience with outsourced / third-party distribution or corporate authorised representative models
- Exposure to board or executive-level governance processes
- Interest in helping build the compliance foundations for a larger, more sophisticated regulated business over time
Benefits
- Flexible working — focused on trust, autonomy and outcomes
- Hybrid or Remote working, depending on role
- Work from anywhere for up to 3 months
- Support towards home working equipment
- Flexible hours for caregiving responsibilities
- Temporary reduced hours / phased returns when life needs it
- Time off for your child’s first day of school (non-negotiable 🥹)
- Employee Growth Share options — because when ANNA grows, you grow too
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders
- Perkbox EAP + counselling support
- Online GP access & prescription service
- Bupa private medical insurance
- On-demand wellness content
- Menopause support (policy + practical adjustments that actually help)
- Salary sacrifice pension contributions
- Workplace nursery salary sacrifice
- Perkbox discounts & reward points
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Salary sacrifice for Home & Tech (coming April ’26)
- $1k annual personal travel allowance
- $1k annual personal learning allowance (including non-work learning — yes, really)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Adoption leave
- Pregnancy loss & compassionate family leave
- Emergency dependent leave
- Monthly team brunches
- Regular team-building events
- Free drinks & snacks in the office
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
compliance frameworkregulatory riskAFSLACLAML-CTFpaymentscardslendingfinancial services conduct obligationscompliance artefacts
Soft Skills
strong judgementpersonal accountabilityability to operate calmly in ambiguityexcellent written communicationexcellent verbal communicationproject managementstakeholder managementcross-functional collaborationtrainingcoaching