Insights
Salary movement, capability gaps and hiring patterns we see in banking, insurance and beyond. Written for people who have to make the hire.
APRA wrote to every bank, insurer and superannuation trustee it regulates on 30 April 2026, calling for a step-change in AI risk governance, while explicitly introducing no new prudential requirements. That combination is what makes this role so hard to resource.
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Salary & benchmarks
Four published sources put the same role between $115,000 and $250,000. The spread is not volatility. It is four incompatible measurements reported in the same unit.
Hiring strategy
Six requirements that appear on almost every AI brief in Australian financial services, what each one excludes, and what to write instead.
AI governance
What APRA’s four findings on board literacy, internal audit, supplier concentration and agentic cyber risk actually imply for who you hire, and in what order.
Quarterly benchmarks for AI and machine learning roles across Australian financial services. One email, no follow-up sequence.