Compliance Officer

Rural Affinity; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rural Affinity is searching for a Compliance Officer to join on a 6-month contract in St Leonards, Australia. You will strengthen compliance frameworks, ensuring regulatory obligations are met while engaging with various teams to improve consistency and quality assurance.

The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail, compliance experience, and excellent communication skills, contributing to meaningful improvements across our operations.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working with data and processes, and it offers a chance to make a significant impact within our organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in compliance, quality assurance, claims, or underwriting operations.
• Understanding of compliance obligations within financial services.
• Strong organizational capability and structured documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance registers ensuring accuracy and audit readiness.
• Support compliance reporting activities internally and externally.
• Conduct structured quality assurance reviews across operations.

Skills

Compliance experience

Quality assurance skills

Strong written communication

Attention to detail

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Strong compliance frameworks don’t happen by chance — they’re built through structure, consistency and people who know how to turn detail into meaningful oversight.

We’re looking for a Compliance Officer to join us on a 6-month contract, supporting and strengthening our compliance framework through the maintenance of key compliance registers, reporting, and quality assurance activities across the business.

Working closely with underwriting, claims and leadership teams, you’ll play an important role in helping ensure our operations remain aligned with regulatory obligations and internal standards. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys working with process, data and governance, while contributing to continuous improvement across the organisation.

If you’re someone who values accuracy, takes pride in well-structured work and enjoys bringing clarity to complex environments, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain compliance registers, ensuring accuracy, completeness and audit readiness
• Support internal and external compliance reporting activities
• Assist with quality assurance reviews across underwriting and claims functions
• Conduct structured QA reviews using established checklists and frameworks
• Analyse QA findings and compliance data to identify trends, gaps and risks
• Prepare clear and meaningful reporting to support oversight and decision-making
• Work with stakeholders across the business to support consistent compliance practices
• Contribute to improving compliance frameworks, reporting processes and data capture
• Support the transition from manual processes to more scalable and structured systems
• Assist in strengthening governance, operational consistency and regulatory alignment

What You Bring

• Experience in compliance, quality assurance, claims, underwriting operations or a related environment
• Understanding of compliance obligations and regulatory frameworks within financial services or insurance
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to prepare clear, structured documentation and reporting
• High attention to detail and strong organisational capability
• Confidence working with process, data and structured workflows
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Sound judgement and the ability to identify and escalate risks appropriately
• A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

Who You Are

You’re organised, analytical and naturally detail-oriented.

You enjoy creating structure, improving consistency and working in environments where accuracy matters. You understand the importance of governance and take a disciplined approach to managing information, reporting and process.

You’re comfortable working across teams, building strong working relationships and contributing to improvements that make a real operational impact. Most importantly, you take pride in producing work that is reliable, defensible and meaningful.

Who We Are

We are a specialist agricultural underwriting agency focused on farm insurance. Our aim is simple — to be the obvious choice for brokers, clients and employees by delivering expertise, efficiency and fairness.

As we continue to grow, we invest in our people through hands-on experience, strong team support and opportunities to contribute to meaningful initiatives. Our culture is built on empowerment, continuous improvement and creating an environment where people can do their best work.