Senior Policy Advisor Financial Markets Fixed-term

4 months ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders
Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Influence the policy and regulatory settings that support financial markets in New Zealand
- Make a difference to New Zealand’s financial wellbeing of New Zealanders
- One full time, 8-months fixed-term Senior Policy Advisor position available to cover parental leave.
- Wellington or Auckland based
- Salary range: $110,098 - $138,028 plus KiwiSaver Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:
The Financial Markets team provides advice to Ministers to promote fair, efficient and transparent financial markets in New Zealand. Our vision is that all New Zealand consumers and businesses have access to the money they need to thrive. Our role includes advising on the regulation of financial services like banks and insurers, insurance contract law, KiwiSaver and other managed funds, and wider investment settings and how to grow our capital markets. In an environment where many New Zealanders are worried about their finances, and New Zealand faces a range of long-term economic and social challenges, financial products and services are critical to help businesses and individuals save and invest for the future, manage their risks, and grow our collective wellbeing.
The Financial Markets team sits in the Small Business, Commerce and Consumer Policy branch, the Government’s lead advisor on the commercial environment in which all New Zealand businesses and consumers operate. We look after the laws, institutions and systems that underpin how businesses and consumers interact with each other including: competition, consumer affairs, market performance, financial conduct, corporate governance and intellectual property, and small business. Our teams cooperate and work flexibly to provide strategic and timely advice for Ministers.
The Financial Markets team currently has one full time, 9-months fixed-term Senior Policy Advisor position available to cover parental leave.
It is an exciting time to join our team. We are currently working on a range of high priority and challenging issues, including exploring opportunities to improve the effectiveness of our capital markets settings to support access to capital for New Zealand businesses, and reviewing conduct obligations on financial institutions such as banks and insurers
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- Have a good base of experience in public policy as a Senior Policy Advisor or transferrable skills from an advisory, legal or similar role
- Experience leading complex projects
- Passion for leading and coaching others to develop their policy craft and take their careers to the next level
- Strong stakeholder relationship building, influencing and engagement skills to gain the cooperation and commitment of others
- Be a logical thinker, problem solver, and have a healthy level of curiosity
- Bring knowledge of policy development disciplines and processes
- Enjoy working on tricky problems, generating ideas and coming up with solutions
- Have or want to improve your cultural capability and knowledge of te ao Māori, te reo Māori and how Te Tiriti o Waitangi informs our work
- Have the ability to build relationships with others and work collaboratively
- Have the ability to work through ambiguity and deliver results.
- Experience with the legislative process or a legal background would be an advantage

Why work for our Branch?
You will get to mix both strategic and regulatory thinking helping us to encourage businesses to compete, innovate, invest and trade, as well as increase business and consumer confidence in market. This will place you at the forefront of fresh thinking to ensure New Zealand has adequate commercial laws, policies and market settings for our businesses to flourish and deliver outcomes consumers demand. You will be doing this in a supportive environment within a branch that empowers its staff to make decisions, supports them to build and use their cultural capability, and takes the time to celebrate its successes and grow its people to the next stage of their careers.
**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.
We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.
People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘li

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