Senior Manager

at  ASIC

• ASIC is seeking a full time Senior Manager, Business Management Unit to join our Digital, Data & Technology (DD&T) group
• This is a great opportunity to work closely with senior leaders in delivering strategic and business operational initiatives
• You will have demonstrated senior business partnering skills with well-developed strategic, problem solving and analytical skills
• Your strength is your ability to make the complex simple
• Permanent position based in Sydney with flexible working options
  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 Digital, Data & Technology (DD&T) group is responsible for delivering transformational change and key technology related operational services across ASIC. The DD&T group includes: Information Technology, Cyber Security, Data, Digital, EPPO (Enterprise Planning Performance Office) and Registry Connect (modernising ASIC’s Business Registers).
  The DD&T BMU is the team responsible for directing and supporting business management and support services for the Group. This team works closely with DD&T Group Senior Executives and Senior Managers to deliver integrated and timely central management services and to ensure these services are delivered in line with ASIC wide priorities.

The role:You will be accountable for:

• Innovative, strategic business operational solutions in the establishment and implementation of group strategies, and processes to reduce costs and streamline processes.
• Oversight of the DD&T consolidated budget, business continuity planning, risk management, audit, business continuity governance practices and compliance management.
• Timely and accurate advice to the Leadership group for the enablement of flexible, responsive executive administration.
• Internal and external communication, triaging of questions on notice, FOI requests using relevant group and ASIC information and data gathered from across business units.
• Improved business outcomes by developing reports, monitoring data, proposing solutions and following up senior executives to ensure business strategies are met.
• The provision of Executive Assistant support to DD&T SELs ensuring consistent and effective executive administration support.

AS A SENIOR MANAGER YOU ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR:

• Providing strategic input into the business plan process with the Leadership team, ensuring budget, resourcing and risk identification is accurate.
• Developing, embedding, and monitoring an integrated strategic and project plan on what DD&T is to deliver.
• Analysing, monitoring, reporting on and providing insights on the performance and complex delivery of the Group strategic, project and business plans.
• Leading the management of the Group’s operational risk, business continuity, compliance, internal audit obligations.
• Achieving business goals set for you and providing an environment that allows your team to be effective and satisfied with their work while developing their full potential.
• Your own personal effectiveness & the output and behaviour of your team.
• Building and leading an effective team so that each member is fully committed to and capable of moving in the direction set.
• Recommending system improvements to optimise long term outcomes and maximise performance.

About you

• Relevant tertiary qualification and/or relevant experience in business administration in the private or government sector.
• Well-developed strategic thinking, problem solving and analytical skills as evidenced through experience at a senior management level.
• Experience exercising sound judgement to select the most appropriate solution and to implement in an operational environment.
• Patience, resilience, and the capacity to adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong management and leadership skills including the ability to build high functioning teams and positively influence others to achieve results.
• Demonstrated organisational and time management skills and the ability to work to meet deadlines while managing several competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building skills, with the ability to negotiate and consult to engage all levels of the organisation and develop effective partnerships with a range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal, written, analytical and presentation skills including business case development, data analysis and insight, and report writing.
• You are curious.

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 on Monday 1 April 2024

The role:You will be accountable for:

• Innovative, strategic business operational solutions in the establishment and implementation of group strategies, and processes to reduce costs and streamline processes.
• Oversight of the DD&T consolidated budget, business continuity planning, risk management, audit, business continuity governance practices and compliance management.
• Timely and accurate advice to the Leadership group for the enablement of flexible, responsive executive administration.
• Internal and external communication, triaging of questions on notice, FOI requests using relevant group and ASIC information and data gathered from across business units.
• Improved business outcomes by developing reports, monitoring data, proposing solutions and following up senior executives to ensure business strategies are met.
• The provision of Executive Assistant support to DD&T SELs ensuring consistent and effective executive administration support