Adviser

• ASIC is seeking a full time Adviser to join their Strategic Planning & Intelligence Team
• Salary starting from $123,444 (depending on experience) plus up to 15.4% superannuation
• Permanent position based in Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra 

A future with ASIC means that your work will contribute to ASIC’s vision for a fair, strong and efficient financial system for all Australians. We value what you will bring. We value those with sharp, analytical minds and are open to challenging the way things are done.

The team

The Strategic Planning & Intelligence (SP&I) team is part of ASIC’s Registry & Intelligence (R&I) group and drives our intelligence-led regulatory approach, using data-informed insights and intelligence.

In the SP&I team you will take a leading role in driving and coordinating ASIC’s strategic planning process. You will also apply your research and analytical skills to identify and understand trends in financial products and markets, evaluate current risks and predict future risks in the regulated environment using multiple data sources, and enhance ASIC’s strategic decision making.

The other teams in the R&I group are: Registry Operations, Regulatory Insights and Assessment, the Criminal Intelligence Unit, International, and the Information and Knowledge Resource Centre. These teams assess reports lodged with ASIC, manage information and data flows, and lead our international engagement.

The role 

• Take a leading role in facilitating and driving the organisational strategy prioritisation work across ASIC and support the settling of its annually updated strategic priorities.

• Coordinating the strategic prioritisation process including engagement with internal and external stakeholders, assessment of threats and harms and communication with external and internal stakeholders about stages of the process
• Facilitating and taking a leading role in strategic regulatory risk identification, analysis, and prioritisation
• In partnership with the Leadership team in being part of brains trust on proposing draft and settling ASIC’s strategic priorities
• Leading and providing advice and challenging content from teams to produce high quality documents and information to support strategic prioritisation
• Working collaboratively with ASIC’s business planning function in the Finance Group to deliver maximum alignment between the strategic prioritisation process and business planning and to assist that function in the implementation of ASIC’s business planning process
• Making an important contribution to coordinating the internal Emerging Issues Forum (EIF) to promote ASIC’s consideration of over the horizon threats and harms
• Developing and maintaining key relationships with stakeholders, including government, regulators, and industry

About you

• Suitable tertiary qualification (such as economics, finance, communications, business or commerce)

• Experience leading or making a significant contribution to operational processes at an organisational level – strategic planning or business planning preferred
• Solid demonstrated experience and ability in managing multiple stakeholders and projects and take responsibility for outcomes
• Ability to effectively communicate complex analysis and potential solutions to different target audiences
• Creativity and drive for problem solving and achieving project outcomes
• Strategic thinking and the ability to undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis to a high standard
• Demonstrated experience and ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Understanding of ASIC’s regulated businesses and strategic goals
• Understanding of how financial markets operate and what drives good and poor consumer outcomes

About ASIC 

ASIC’s remit is one of the broadest of regulators across the world.

ASIC regulates corporations, markets, financial services and consumer credit and monitors and promotes market integrity and consumer protection in the Australian financial system.

Through our enforcement work, we hold to account those who contravene the law, working to achieve strong outcomes that address the greatest consumer and investor harms.

Through Moneysmart, we aim to improve the skills and knowledge of Australians and provide information and tools to help them in their decision making.

A future with ASIC means that your work will contribute to achieving ASIC’s vision for a fair, strong, and efficient financial system for all Australians.

ASIC is committed to a providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. Indigenous Australians are encouraged to apply as well as applicants from all backgrounds and with different abilities

To work with us, you need to be an Australian citizen, and be prepared to complete an ASIC Suitability and Baseline Assessment which is issued ASIC’s Security team.

View the position description for more information or click ‘apply’ to start your application.

Applications for this role will close at 11:59pm on Wednesday 18 September 2024

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