Program Manager - Regulatory Change

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

Title: Program Manager - Regulatory Change

Location: Sydney/Melbourne, Australia || Hybrid

Type: Permanent ||Full Time

About SS&C Technologies

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.

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

What You Will Get to Do:

The Program Manager - Regulatory Change will provide strategic oversight and coordinated delivery of regulatory initiatives across the Superannuation and Wealth sector, ensuring compliance obligations are met within mandated timeframes while minimising business, operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Operating within the Portfolio Delivery business unit, this role is accountable for leading the end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent regulatory programs. Regulatory initiatives typically involve complex dependencies across technology, operations, risk, legal, compliance, product, and customer teams - requiring a single point of leadership and governance to drive successful outcomes.

The Program Manager will work closely with executive stakeholders, senior business leaders, and cross-functional delivery teams to interpret regulatory obligations, develop and maintain program roadmaps, manage risk and interdependencies, and provide clear governance reporting through senior leadership forums and regulatory steering committees.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent regulatory programs, ensuring compliance obligations are met within mandated legislative and regulatory timeframes.

• Establish and maintain a regulatory change governance framework, including reporting standards, decision-making forums, RACI, and delivery controls.

• Develop and manage a consolidated regulatory program roadmap, aligned to legislative calendars, business priorities, and organisational capacity.

• Manage cross-functional workstreams, dependencies, and competing priorities across technology, operations, risk, legal, compliance, product, and customer teams.

• Provide executive-level reporting and decision support through senior leadership forums and regulatory steering committees.

• Identify, assess, and manage program risks, issues, and interdependencies - ensuring mitigation strategies are implemented and monitored.

• Oversee business impact assessments for incoming regulatory obligations, working with SMEs to define implementation approaches.

• Coordinate resource planning and utilization across regulatory initiatives, optimizing delivery capacity across the portfolio.

• Ensure regulatory change implementation minimizes disruption to customers, advisers, and frontline operations while maintaining efficiency.

• Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Product to ensure obligations are correctly interpreted and translated into delivery requirements.

• Champion delivery excellence and continuous improvement across the regulatory change portfolio, leveraging lessons learned and industry best practice.

• Lead post-implementation reviews to confirm regulatory obligations have been met and expected outcomes achieved.

• Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks, audit requirements, and organizational standards throughout program delivery.

What You Will Bring

• 8+ years' experience delivering complex regulatory, compliance, or strategic change programs within Financial Services, Superannuation, Wealth Management, or related sectors.

• Deep knowledge of the regulatory landscape across Superannuation and Wealth, including experience interpreting and delivering against legislative change obligations.

• Demonstrated experience establishing and operating regulatory change governance frameworks, reporting structures, and executive steering forums.

• Strong understanding of program and portfolio management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.

• Proven ability to manage senior executive stakeholders and influence outcomes across diverse business functions.

• Strong commercial acumen including business case development, benefits realization, investment governance, and program budgeting.

• Expertise in risk, dependency, issue, and change management across complex, multi-workstream delivery environments.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills - including at Board and ELT level.

• Demonstrated organizational judgement and the ability to balance legal, risk, customer, operational, and commercial considerations.

• Highly organized and outcome-focused with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced regulatory environment.

• Experience with delivery tooling including Jira, Confluence, and portfolio management platforms.

• Relevant qualifications in Program Management, Project Management, or related disciplines (PgMP, MSP, PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe or equivalent highly regarded).

Why This Role Matters

The increasing volume, complexity, and frequency of regulatory change across the Superannuation and Wealth sector necessitates a dedicated Program Manager to provide strategic oversight and coordinated delivery of regulatory initiatives.

Without a dedicated Program Manager, there is an increased risk of fragmented delivery, missed regulatory deadlines, duplicated effort, inconsistent implementation approaches, and inadequate management of interdependencies across change initiatives.

This role will provide the leadership, governance, and delivery discipline necessary to ensure the organization remains compliant while achieving strategic and client outcomes - reducing the risk of non-compliance, regulatory breaches, remediation costs, customer impacts, and potential enforcement actions.

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.