Senior Manager - Obligations and Policy Management

Snowy Hydro Careers • Walsh Bay, NSW, AU • 1d ago

About Snowy:

Snowy Hydro is a dynamic, integrated energy business that has been providing on-demand, reliable energy to Australia for generations. Snowy Hydro owns and operates a powerful combination of generation assets, including the mighty Snowy Mountains Scheme, gas and diesel plants, and contracted wind and solar energy. We also provide electricity and gas to over 1.5 million retail customers through our retail brands Red Energy and Lumo Energy.

Snowy 2.0 is Australia's largest committed renewable energy project. This nation-building project will provide on-demand energy and large-scale storage for many generations to come.

About the position:

The organisation is uniquely energised for transition and change, backed by strong leadership support for increased governance and compliance.

Reporting to the General Manager, Compliance, this newly created role will lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of Snowy's enterprise-wide Obligations and Policy Management processes. As the business grows in complexity and scale, you will serve as a core compliance framework owner, overseeing the mapping of regulatory obligations and ensuring that internal policies are robust, aligned, and complete to support key regulatory rings, including our water licence and Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL).

Key Responsibilities:

Framework Ownership: Operate as the delegated compliance framework owner to monitor consistent application of frameworks and standards across the business.
Obligations Management: Oversee the central gathering of obligations, managing complex data delivered by external vendors, and building a version-controlled, central obligations and exemptions register.
Policy Governance: Manage the policy governance lifecycle with obligation owners, ensuring existing policies are current, complete, and fully aligned to mapped obligations.
Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively engage with peers and management across generation, wholesale, retail, and corporate functions to identify obligation ownership and support functions in designing compliant processes.
Reporting & Systems: Prepare compliance analysis and reporting for senior leaders and Board committees, whilst engaging with the implementation of a new standardised technology platform for risk and compliance data.

About the location:

This role is based in Sydney.

About you:

Compliance Background: A compliance professional with deep experience in group or enterprise compliance roles, understanding what "good" looks like in the governance space. Experience within a highly scrutinised sector (such as banking or financial services) is highly valued to bring a mature compliance methodology to the team.
Experience & Education: A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant discipline, combined with 8+ years of experience in a legal, risk, compliance, or relevant governance function.
Regulatory Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Australian regulatory requirements. Energy sector experience is highly regarded but not essential, as long as you can rapidly utilise your transferrable compliance principles.
Stakeholder Mindset: Exceptional communication skills with a patient, proactive, and relationship-driven approach. You possess the resilience to navigate complex accountability conversations and positively influence busy revenue-earning business units.
Drive: The ability to work independently, manage complex workstreams, and comfortably deliver within an environment undergoing transformation and strong growth.

If you meet some, but not all, of the requirements, you are still encouraged to apply.

About our workforce:

Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.

Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a role with Snowy Hydro and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Snowy Hydro recruitment team.