Wholesale Market Expert Role
The Wholesale Market Expert will contribute to delivering on ASIC's purpose, vision, and strategic priorities to help maintain the integrity of the financial system and protect consumers from harm.
This is a 12-month opportunity for an experienced professional to join ASIC's team in leading surveillance and compliance work for wholesale market intermediaries and issuers, with a focus on private markets - particularly private credit and private equity funds.
* Conduct thorough reviews and tests of compliance of intermediaries and issuers in private markets through on-site surveillance and desk-based reviews.
* Provide strategic analysis, evaluation, and guidance on technical and policy issues relating to private markets, emerging issues, trends, and risks.
* Draft high-quality documents including surveillance findings, memoranda recommending regulatory actions, public reports, guidance, and briefings to senior leaders.
* Lead and manage surveillance projects, ensuring timely delivery of outcomes.
* Collaborate with colleagues across teams to contribute to multi-disciplinary projects and share knowledge and insights.
About You
You will have relevant tertiary qualifications (law, commerce, finance, or related discipline) and strong knowledge of private markets, private credit, private equity funds, and wholesale OTC markets.
You bring experience from a legal, compliance, risk, or business analyst role within financial services - such as investment management, corporate finance, investment banking, or a regulatory environment.
Experience in providing advice or working on policy matters in wholesale markets, as well as delivering complex projects, will be highly regarded.
Requirements
* Sound judgement and strategic thinking.
* Ability to clearly communicate complex information to varied audiences.
* Manage competing priorities, lead projects to completion, and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
About ASIC
ASIC regulates corporations, markets, financial services and consumer credit and monitors and promotes market integrity and consumer protection in the Australian financial system.
Through our enforcement work, we hold to account those who contravene the law, working to achieve strong outcomes that address the greatest consumer and investor harms.