Senior Risk & Compliance Leader – FinServ (Sydney)

MYOB; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, hybrid workplace

Home office setup allowance

Corporate discounts

Sonder wellbeing partnership

In-house training & LinkedIn Learning

Generous leave options

Wellness communities

Job summary

MYOB is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Manager to join our Sydney team. You will ensure MYOB meets regulatory obligations across financial services, superannuation, and payments, translating complex rules into practical business actions.

You’ll lead risk and compliance activities, provide pragmatic guidance to senior leaders, and help embed a strong compliance culture across product, technology, and operations teams. This role offers a hybrid work model in a dynamic fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive expertise and experience in compliance, risk, regulatory advisory, or legal positions, preferably in financial services, superannuation, banking, payments, or fintech.
• Established capability in supervising compliance frameworks, obligations registers, monitoring projects, and reporting procedures.
• Strong communication and influencing abilities, with assurance in engaging collaborators at all levels.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Relevant qualifications in law, commerce, finance, risk, or compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Risk & Compliance in implementing MYOB’s risk and compliance framework.
• Safeguard and supervise risk and compliance registers, controls, and reporting processes to secure conformity with regulatory obligations.
• Provide clear, pragmatic compliance advice to senior leaders, product, technology, and operations teams.
• Coordinate risk and compliance monitoring and testing activities, and have oversight over remediation activities.
• Prepare and deliver risk and compliance reporting for executives, board committees, trustees, and regulators.
• Assist in the deployment and oversight of MYOB’s GRC system.
• Support responses to regulatory requests, audits, and reviews.
• Identify and assess emerging risks across financial services, technology, data, and third-party arrangements.
• Drive a positive compliance and risk culture through training, awareness, and engagement initiatives.
• Stay across emerging regulatory developments and advise on impacts to MYOB’s products and services.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Compliance frameworks

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Law or finance degree

Tools

GRC system

Job description

MYOB is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Manager to join our Sydney team. You will ensure MYOB meets regulatory obligations across financial services, superannuation, and payments, translating complex rules into practical business actions.

You’ll lead risk and compliance activities, provide pragmatic guidance to senior leaders, and help embed a strong compliance culture across product, technology, and operations teams. This role offers a hybrid work model in a dynamic fintech environment.