Regulatory Response Lead – Payments & Compliance

Hatch; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Payments Plus is seeking a Regulatory Response Manager to help maintain a strong compliance posture and respond to key regulatory matters, including PFMI adoption. You’ll coordinate responses from planning and evidence gathering through to review, self-assessment and submission, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and governance.

You’ll collaborate with business owners and stakeholders, provide specialist advice, and support high‑quality, defensible regulatory outcomes while embedding risk

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or managing regulatory responses, compliance matters or regulatory commitments, ideally within financial services, payments or another regulated environment.
• Experience coordinating evidence and stakeholders across complex regulatory or compliance activities.
• Strong quality assurance capability, with experience reviewing evidence and supporting accurate, consistent and timely regulatory responses.
• Good knowledge of regulatory obligations, compliance practices, risk management, governance and response controls.
• Ability to identify and assess risks, develop mitigation strategies and clearly communicate issues to stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills to synthesize complex information into clear, defensible outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across multiple teams and levels of seniority.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail in managing evidence, records, reporting and governance requirements.
• A relevant tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, governance or a related discipline; professional certification or membership desirable.

Responsibilities

• Leading regulatory response activities: planning, evidence gathering, review, self‑assessment and submission coordination.
• Providing risk and compliance advice to stakeholders on regulatory obligations and commitments.
• Maintaining records and governance to support regulatory requests, responses and commitments.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Regulatory compliance

Risk management knowledge

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, governance

Job description

Australian Payments Plus is seeking a Regulatory Response Manager to help maintain a strong compliance posture and respond to key regulatory matters, including PFMI adoption. You’ll coordinate responses from planning and evidence gathering through to review, self-assessment and submission, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and governance.

You’ll collaborate with business owners and stakeholders, provide specialist advice, and support high‑quality, defensible regulatory outcomes while embedding risk