Senior Compliance Manager - Obligations, Monitoring & Assurance

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team & role

The Senior Compliance Manager - Obligations, Monitoring & Assurance, is responsible for ensuring Xero has identified, documented and complies with legal, regulatory and policy requirements. Reporting directly to the General Manager Enterprise Compliance, you will be instrumental in safeguarding the company’s integrity and reputation. With significant regulatory compliance experience, you will ensure that Xero effectively meets its regulatory and legal obligations, thereby enhancing operational integrity and maintaining compliance within Board-approved risk appetite settings. Your expertise in providing guidance and stakeholder management will foster a culture of compliance throughout the organization. Ultimately, your contributions will play a critical role in supporting Xero’s strategic goals and upholding high standards of ethical conduct.

What you'll do

• Advisory & Training: Provide compliance advice to the business and risk teams, develop and deliver training programs, and serve as a point of contact for compliance inquiries.
• Monitoring, Assurance & Reporting: Develop and manage compliance monitoring programs, conduct assurance reviews and risk assessments, prepare compliance reports, and liaise with regulatory bodies.
• Obligations Management: Identify, document, and maintain the obligations register, interpret and communicate regulatory requirements, and ensure the business understands and manages its compliance obligations.
• Incident & Breach Management: Develop and maintain the incident and breach management framework, oversee the identification and management of incidents and breaches, and ensure proper documentation and reporting.

What you'll bring with you

• Competency in commerce, finance, business, law, or related fields.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a similar compliance or risk role. 
• Experience designing and executing compliance and/or risk reviews or compliance monitoring programs. 
• Sound knowledge of compliance management concepts, frameworks and standards.
• An understanding of the regulatory landscape impacting the Australian payments and financial services sectors is desirable. 
• Experience within a globally matrixed organisation is preferred but not essential.
• An understanding of the regulatory landscape in the UK and US is desirable.

Why Xero? 

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.