Careers

Careers at AFSA

A career with AFSA offers an exciting opportunity for you to work alongside industry experts and professionals across Australia to enrich your skills and expertise. With a focus on collaboration and continuous learning, AFSA provides a rewarding environment that fosters personal and professional growth.

Whether you’re interested in regulatory operations (including enforcement, compliance or education) or enabling services (including legal, data and analytics and corporate services), AFSA offers diverse career paths and opportunities to accommodate your interests and aspirations.

AFSA is an inclusive employer. We encourage flexible working and foster a work environment where everyone is respected, connected and can make a valuable contribution. This is regardless of age, culture, disability, family and caring responsibilities, gender identity, Indigeneity, religion or sexuality. We strongly encourage applications from people with lived experience of diversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

We value flexibility and most roles can be performed from any of our locations and are available on a full-time, part-time or job-share basis.

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Why work with us

AFSA is an executive agency of the Attorney General’s Department. We contribute to Australia’s economic and social prosperity by administering and regulating the personal insolvency and personal property securities systems and managing criminal assets.

 We are a small, ambitious and dynamic agency. With staff based across the country, we play a critical role in Australia’s $3.5 trillion credit system. We do so by administrating and regulating the personal property securities register as well as personal insolvencies. We also work with other agencies to manage criminal assets and we have almost $400 billion in assets under management. Our staff work with a wide range of stakeholders to provide empathetic and high-quality services.

We offer a flexible, challenging and innovative work environment and we are looking for people who are curious, innovative and creative thinkers, and with critical reasoning skills to join us on our journey to become a visible, modern and contemporary regulator.

At AFSA you can expect:

• an inclusive workplace
• flexible working arrangements
• to grow and expand your skills, experience and education
• strong career paths and supportive career development.

What we offer

Our AFSA Enterprise Agreement 2024-2027 provides the following benefits as well as those common to the Australian Public Service conditions:

• competitive pay and 15.4% super
• leave and purchase leave options
• generous parental leave entitlements
• paid leave during the Christmas to New Year shutdown
• access to salary sacrifice
• access to studies assistance
• flexible working arrangements, including part-time and job share
• hybrid and flexible working from home arrangements
• offices in most Australian capital cities, with geographically-dispersed teams. 
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  • Employee conditions and commitment to diversity and inclusion and health and wellbeing
  • AFSA pay rates
  • Enterprise agreement 2024 – 2027

Indigenous pathways

We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made and will continue to make extraordinary contributions to all aspects of Australian life and we recognise the importance of learning about our shared histories, cultures and achievements. We offer pathways and opportunities across a wide range of roles.

With office locations around the country, working for AFSA offers an exciting opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to help make a difference.

We are committed to creating a workplace that is culturally aware and to providing support to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to maximise their full potential. 

We provide learning and development opportunities, mentoring and support to make sure you are receiving the most from your employment experience. 

The following initiatives and support are accessible to all our Indigenous staff:

• Reconciliation Action Plan Committee 
• Our third generation Reconciliation Action Plan
• Dedicated Indigenous Liaison Officer and access to the AFSA Mob Support Network
• A range of dedicated leave entitlements including ceremonial and cultural
• Opportunities for staff (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) to participate in a Jawun secondment.

To find out more about Indigenous pathways, contact the Indigenous Liaison Officer or view our current vacancies.

Our areas

Find out more below about our work groups and teams that support AFSA's services.

Regulatory Operations Group

The Regulatory Operations Group (ROG) is responsible for the way AFSA regulates including our approach to compliance, enforcement and education. ROG plays a pivotal role in supporting clients navigating AFSA’s systems while ensuring strict compliance with regulatory standards.

Find out more about our Regulatory Operations Group teams below. 

Enabling Services Group

The Enabling Services Group supports AFSA’s core regulatory functions.

The group shapes AFSA’s strategic direction, manages government relationships, provides effective corporate services, and leverages AFSA’s technology to promote organisational delivery and performance.

Find out more about our Enabling Services Group teams below. 

Legal and Strategic Analytics

As well as our two Groups of Regulatory Operations and Enabling Services, we have Legal and Strategic Analytics teams which report directly to the Chief Executive.

Find out more about our Legal and Strategic Analytics teams below. 

Current vacancies

Find out about current vacancies at AFSA to find the next exciting step in your career.

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