Manager, Line 1 Risk and Compliance - Asset Services

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organisations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organisations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organisations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organisations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.”

Our Asset Services team delivers a comprehensive range of fund administration, fund accounting, registry, and investor servicing solutions to investment managers and their clients. We support the end-to-end investment lifecycle through accurate transaction processing, financial reporting, investor administration, regulatory compliance, and operational oversight. By combining industry expertise, robust controls, and a client-focused approach, we help investment managers operate efficiently, meet their obligations, and focus on delivering outcomes for investors.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model

• Your Future: Income Protection Insurance

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Time Off

• Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance

• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, including SS&C University

• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

The Manager, Risk & Compliance provides first-line oversight of regulatory compliance and risk controls, ensuring SS&C meets its obligations across APRA, ASIC and AUSTRAC.

The role focuses on translating regulatory and contractual requirements into effective risk controls, overseeing regulatory reporting and incident-related compliance obligations, and strengthening the Line 1 risk and control framework.

Working closely with the Head of Line 1 Risk & Compliance, Regulatory Change and Enablement Lead, Line 2 Risk & Compliance, Legal, Client Service and Operational teams, focuses on translating regulatory and contractual obligations, and the outcomes of regulatory change, into practical risk controls, ensuring the control environment keeps pace with obligations and that gaps are identified and closed in partnership with the business.

Oversee first-line regulatory compliance and risk controls across APRA, ASIC, AUSTRAC, FATCA and CRS obligations, as well as relevant client and contractual requirements.

• Translate regulatory and contractual obligations into practical, effective and embedded risk controls, identifying gaps and prioritising remediation.

• Develop and maintain the regulatory and contractual controls library, ensuring controls remain aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements.

• Support the development and maintenance of RCSAs, KRIs and the Line 1 risk and compliance framework, including ongoing control effectiveness reviews.

• Provide oversight and quality assurance of regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, compliance with obligations and adherence to critical reporting deadlines.

• Support the identification, assessment and escalation of regulatory breaches, reporting gaps, control breakdowns and compliance risks.

• Partner with the Incidents & Complaints team to ensure root cause findings are reflected in control improvements, RCSAs and KRIs.

• Ensure regulatory controls and processes remain aligned with APRA CPS 230, CPS 234 and other relevant regulatory standards.

• Support internal and external audits, maintaining audit readiness, providing control evidence and overseeing remediation of audit findings.

• Act as a trusted risk and compliance advisor to operational teams, supporting the effective implementation and ongoing operation of controls.

• Work closely with the Regulatory Change & Enablement Lead to translate regulatory change outcomes into updated controls, processes and risk assessments.

• Collaborate with Line 2 Risk & Compliance, Legal, Finance and Operations to ensure a consistent and effective approach to regulatory risk management.

• Identify opportunities to streamline compliance processes, reduce manual effort and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the control environment.

• Drive continuous improvement across compliance, risk controls, reporting and governance processes.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years' experience in Risk & Compliance, Operational Risk or Controls Management within financial services, with experience in asset servicing, fund administration, custody, transfer agency or managed investments highly regarded.

• Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks, including RCSAs, KRIs, control design and effectiveness assessment.

• Experience in obligations management, controls libraries or governance frameworks would be highly regarded.

• Experience analysing regulatory and contractual obligations and translating them into practical, risk-based controls.

• Demonstrated ability to identify control gaps, drive remediation activities and support continuous improvement initiatives.

• Knowledge of Australian financial services regulatory requirements, with exposure to APRA, ASIC, AUSTRAC, FATCA and CRS highly regarded.

• Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews and remediation of audit or regulatory findings.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and partner across all levels of the organisation.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a regulated environment

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.