The Opportunity
This is a Senior Risk Manager opportunity providing expert challenge, advice, and oversight across a major Integrated Payroll Program and broader technology portfolio, partnering closely with senior stakeholders to ensure risks are understood, controlled, and kept within appetite in a complex, highly regulated environment.
About the Role
In this role, you will act as a trusted Line 2 IT Risk advisor, providing independent review and challenge on key technology and payroll risks.
* Provide expert 2nd Line of Defence review, challenge, and specialist advice on the Integrated Payroll Program and CRO team priorities
* Review and challenge the adequacy of risk and control assessments, identifying gaps, issues, and practical remediation actions
* Ensure risk strategy, policies, and operational risk frameworks are effectively applied across relevant programs and domains
* Hold Line 1 to account for timely issue resolution, and ensure compliance with policy and IT-related obligations is monitored and maintained
* Build strong relationships with Line 1, Line 2, and divisional stakeholders, ensuring risks are clearly understood, reflected, and reported
* Provide high quality risk monitoring, reporting, and escalation of issues and potential loss events in line with agreed channels and structures
About You
You are an experienced risk leader with deep IT risk knowledge, strong gravitas, and the ability to influence at senior levels.
* Extensive professional experience in risk management, ideally within financial services, Big 4 consulting, or audit
* Deep IT risk and control knowledge and experience, including data and information security risk
* Proven history delivering risk assessments and supporting complex programs or projects from a risk perspective
* Strong communication and report writing skills, with the ability to manage through ambiguity and apply sound judgement
* Resilient, adaptable, self-driven, energetic, inquisitive, and a critical thinker with strong stakeholder and conflict management skills
* Relevant tertiary or post-graduate qualifications in IT, Computer Science, or Information Security, plus certifications such as CISA, CRISC, CISM, or CISSP
* Must have full Australian working rights, and be onshore for hybrid requirements.
The Benefits
* Initial 12 month contract
* Hybrid working, with 2-3 days per week in Melbourne office.
How To Apply
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please reach out, quoting reference JN Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us