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.
• Strong 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, fast-paced environment.
• 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.