About the role
Join QIC’s Compliance team and help manage key regulatory and compliance risks across a global investment business. The Compliance team is responsible for overseeing and managing compliance arrangements to ensure that QIC effectively manages its regulatory and compliance risks. Some of the key domains that the Compliance team provides second-line oversight of include, but are not limited to, regulatory licensing, financial crime, conflicts of interest, product distribution and marketing, whistleblowing, liquid market transactions, privacy, records and data.
This role will initially focus on conflicts of interest and information barrier management, providing operational and advisory support to stakeholders across the business, before expanding into a wider compliance portfolio as priorities evolve.
Key responsibilities:
- Supporting QIC’s conflicts of interest and information barrier arrangements.
- Reviewing and approving conflict of interest notification requests (including gift and entertainment, outside business activities, personal investment approval requests and others).
- Assisting in the maintenance and management of QIC’s conflicts of interest management system.
- Contributing to the design and implementation of a best practice approach to the identification and management of regulatory and compliance risks, initially in relation to conflicts of interest.
- Assisting with the development and maintenance of the Compliance team's management reporting.
- Supporting implementing other Compliance team initiatives and projects, including monitoring and assurance programs.
- Contributing to the development and maintenance of compliance policies, standards, procedures, and controls.
- Supporting the implementation of frameworks and monitor controls, to ensure that relevant regulatory obligations are met.
- Providing proactive and trusted advice to internal stakeholders across our Australian and international offices to ensure regulatory and compliance-related risks are well understood and managed.
You’re analytical, proactive, and comfortable working with complexity. You enjoy autonomy, take ownership of your work and can confidently process and apply information in a practical way.
You’ll bring:
- Experience working in a regulatory and/or compliance role within the financial services industry.
- Degree qualified in Law, Finance, Commerce, Accounting or equivalent.
- A good understanding of best practice approaches to managing regulatory and compliance frameworks within the financial services sector.
- Knowledge of both current and emerging regulations, risk and compliance frameworks and other technical principles relevant to the investment management industry within Australia.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop collaborative working relationships.
- An ability to translate technical legal and regulatory requirements into efficient and easily understood business processes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
About the company
Financial Services
QIC is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, with A$135bn+ in assets under management.
Headquartered in Brisbane, we are a private markets specialist with deep fixed income and overlays expertise, investing across infrastructure, real estate, private equity, private debt and liquid markets.
We partner with approximately 125 institutional investors and government clients globally, applying disciplined judgment to deliver resilient performance over the long term.
With offices also in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco, London and Singapore, we combine deep Australian heritage with global capability.
Established in 1991 to manage capital for the Queensland Government, QIC operates with legislated investment independence. Our sovereign ownership provides stability and accountability.
We remain deeply connected to our Queensland heritage and committed to delivering long-term economic benefits for Queenslanders.
Today, close to 1,000 professionals across our corporate and investment functions work together to create shared value by responsibly investing for the prosperity of clients, people and communities.