Senior Regulation Analyst

at  Department of Treasury and Finance

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Melbourne | CBD
Job type: Full time / Until 1 July 2025
Organisation: Department of Treasury and Finance
Salary: $106,534 - $128,897
Occupation: Analyst
Reference: VG/1792024A
Fixed term vacancy until 1 July 2025

ABOUT US

The Department of Treasury and Finance provides economic, financial and resource management advice to help the Victorian Government deliver its policies. We strive for excellence in financial and economic management to improve the lives of all Victorians.

ABOUT YOU

We are seeking applications from candidates with demonstrable experience in:

• Autonomously delivering and influencing desired outcomes in a complex stakeholder environment. Proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders.
• Strong financial regulatory, compliance or risk management expertise. Capacity to apply these skills to assess registrations, categorisations and ongoing compliance and monitoring activities.
• Sound data skills including analysing data sets and ability to read financial reports to support and influence decision making.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, evidenced by an ability to prepare clear advice and recommendations, using a range of information sources, including complex briefs and reports.
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills to reach desired outcomes whilst balancing competing stakeholders’ interests.
• Good project management skills to manage and deliver complex regulatory reform and joint government projects within timelines whilst managing a competing workload.

Experience and qualifications

• More than 5 years relevant experience is required, preferably with a background that includes finance and regulatory experience.
• Possess a relevant tertiary qualification in economics, policy, business, accounting, etc.
• Sound understanding of data analysis would be highly regarded.
• Experience in public policy, finance and economic analysis would be highly regarded as would interest in and knowledge of the social housing sector.

We have a fixed term vacancy available where the key accountabilities are to:

• Regulate of a portfolio of registered agencies in accordance with the Housing Act 1983, gazetted Performance Standards, Intervention Guidelines and associated policies, systems and business processes.
• Monitor the compliance, business performance and financial viability of a portfolio of regulated agencies against Performance Standards, providing expert and authoritative advice to the Regulation Manager and Registrar of Housing Agencies (Registrar) on individual agency and sector performance.
• Support the Regulation Manager on the development, planning and management of joint government projects for wider social housing system reform.
• A confident communicator, ensuring effective engagement with registered agencies and other key stakeholders.
• Identify emerging issues, trends and areas of potential harm for registered agencies and the sector.
• Be commercially astute and experienced

Reporting to the Manager Regulation, the Senior Regulation Analyst is a key member of the Victorian Government’s Housing Registrar team, providing expert regulatory advice. The Senior Regulation Analyst will work within the Housing Registrar team to regulate a portfolio of community housing agencies (registered agencies) as lead analyst. This role will also assist the team in delivering regulatory reform projects, data analysis, regulatory reporting and be involved in a range of strategic joint government projects.

We have a fixed term vacancy available where the key accountabilities are to:

• Regulate of a portfolio of registered agencies in accordance with the Housing Act 1983, gazetted Performance Standards, Intervention Guidelines and associated policies, systems and business processes.
• Monitor the compliance, business performance and financial viability of a portfolio of regulated agencies against Performance Standards, providing expert and authoritative advice to the Regulation Manager and Registrar of Housing Agencies (Registrar) on individual agency and sector performance.
• Support the Regulation Manager on the development, planning and management of joint government projects for wider social housing system reform.
• A confident communicator, ensuring effective engagement with registered agencies and other key stakeholders.
• Identify emerging issues, trends and areas of potential harm for registered agencies and the sector.
• Be commercially astute and experienced.