Head of Regulatory Breach Reporting & Financial Crime

• Location: Sydney

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

Are you ready to lead the way in regulatory compliance and financial crime risk management? QBE AUSPAC is seeking a dynamic, strategic leader to head our Regulatory Breach Reporting & Financial Crime team. This is a senior role with significant impact, driving compliance excellence and shaping our culture of integrity across the region.

Your new role

As the Head of Regulatory Breach Reporting & Financial Crime, you will lead QBE AUSPAC’s regulatory incident framework, oversee financial crime risks, and foster a robust compliance culture. You’ll lead the Line 2 function overseeing breach management, sanctions compliance, anti-bribery & corruption, fraud prevention, and regional AML/CTF programs, ensuring timely regulatory reporting and strong governance.

• Develop and implement financial crime and breach reporting strategies aligned with QBE’s global compliance framework

• Oversee end-to-end breach management frameworks, policies, processes, and systems to support identification, assessment, escalation, and reporting

• Lead advisory forums, including breach determination and customer remediation working groups

• Advise on and oversee AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery & corruption, and fraud prevention programs

• Provide compliance insights and advice to senior stakeholders, including Board and Committees

• Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement

About you

You are a strategic thinker and proven leader, passionate about compliance and risk management. You thrive in complex environments and have a deep understanding of regulatory frameworks and financial crime prevention.  

• Extensive experience in a senior compliance role, preferably in financial services or insurance

• Deep knowledge of Australian regulatory frameworks (ASIC, CGC, APRA, OAIC) and global standards

• Experience managing breach reporting obligations under financial services, prudential, privacy, and data protection laws

• Bring curiosity, deeply understanding data and can draw meaningful insights

• Proven track record in driving process efficiencies, implementing compliance programs and leading teams 

• Familiarity with compliance risk systems, transaction monitoring systems, and data analytics

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance

• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest

• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super

• Voluntary super contributions and company matching

• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums

• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program

• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice

• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards

• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion

• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates

• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

Apply now

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.