Senior Compliance Lead – Regulatory Change & Risk

MAS; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Income protection

KiwiSaver 6%

Job summary

MAS is seeking a Senior Compliance Lead to join our Risk and Legal team in Wellington or Auckland. The role drives the compliance framework, provides second-line oversight, and guides a major two-year uplift program before continuing within our ongoing Risk and Compliance team.

You’ll partner with leaders to strengthen regulatory readiness, compliance maturity, and outcomes for Members while embedding a practical culture of compliance across the organisation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience across compliance, regulatory affairs, risk, governance, legal or audit.
• Strong knowledge of compliance management frameworks.
• Strong understanding of New Zealand financial services regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing compliance frameworks and designing and delivering compliance monitoring programmes.
• Experience with obligations registers, assurance programmes and regulatory change.
• Experience operating in Line 2 within a Three Lines model.
• Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business outcomes.
• Strong policy development and process design capability.
• Experience preparing high-quality reporting for Executive and Board-level stakeholders.
• Strong influencing, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of MAS's compliance framework.
• Provide trusted second-line compliance advice, guidance and constructive challenge to leaders across the business.
• Oversee compliance monitoring activities and contribute to the development and ongoing delivery of our Compliance Assurance Programme.
• Strengthen obligations management and ensure obligations are identified, categorised, and appropriately linked to controls and accountable owners.
• Lead the assessment and implementation of regulatory change.
• Support regulatory reviews, information requests, reporting, attestations and submissions.
• Support the development and ongoing improvement of MAS's regulatory engagement framework.
• Strengthen conduct risk practices and support delivery of fair Member outcomes.
• Oversee compliance incidents, breaches, root cause analysis and remediation activities.
• Monitor emerging compliance risks and identify opportunities to improve controls, processes and compliance maturity.
• Prepare clear and meaningful compliance reporting and insights for senior leadership and Board Committees.
• Help promote a strong, practical and sustainable culture of compliance across MAS.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory compliance

Governance & risk

Policy development

Communication skills

Regulatory change management

Three Lines model (Line 2)

Education

Law/Commerce/Business degree

Job description

MAS is seeking a Senior Compliance Lead to join our Risk and Legal team in Wellington or Auckland. The role drives the compliance framework, provides second-line oversight, and guides a major two-year uplift program before continuing within our ongoing Risk and Compliance team.

You’ll partner with leaders to strengthen regulatory readiness, compliance maturity, and outcomes for Members while embedding a practical culture of compliance across the organisation.