**Job Title:** Business Risk Manager
Role Summary:
This is a critical role responsible for providing expert advice and guidance on all aspects of risk management.
The successful candidate will be a strategic partner to the assigned business unit, ensuring business risks are proactively identified, assessed, reported, mitigated, and monitored in line with organisational risk tolerances and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Partner with business leaders to implement the risk management framework and maintain a comprehensive operational risk profile, including inherent and residual risks, and associated controls.
2. Support the business in conducting risk assessments and designing, implementing, and maintaining effective and efficient control environments embedded in business processes.
3. Facilitate timely and accurate risk reporting in line with framework requirements, ensuring data integrity within the governance, risk, and compliance system.
4. Monitor the status of agreed management actions, analyse trends and exceptions, and prepare insight reports on risk and compliance performance.
5. Contribute to enterprise-wide transparency by preparing reports that reflect the business's risk and compliance status, supporting an integrated organisational risk view.
Requirements:
* 3–5 years' experience in risk management, control, and compliance, supported by a tertiary qualification in business or a commercial discipline.
* Proven experience in large, complex enterprise environments with strong stakeholder influence skills and knowledge of risk and control standards (e.g., ISO, COSO) and industry best practices.
* Skilled in using risk management tools to deliver reporting, governance, and compliance activities effectively.
* Strong decision-making skills with the ability to work autonomously in high-pressure environments, identify and prioritise critical risks, and manage recovery plans for senior executives.
* Proficient in analysing complex data from multiple sources to generate insights, and in managing projects to control cost, time, and communication impact.
* Confident communicator with strong facilitation skills, comfortable engaging with director to VP level stakeholders, and recognised for a self-motivated, flexible approach to achieving outcomes.
Benefits:
* Flexible working arrangements, including remote work options.
* Inclusive carer-neutral paid parental leave of up to 16 weeks.
* Competitive leave, including two 'connected leave' days.
* Access to resources, webinars, and support via the employee-led volunteer groups.
* Opportunities for growth and development through extensive online and facilitator-led learning catalogues.
* Vibrant campus life, with a variety of facilities, including restaurants, cafes, gymnasiums, general practitioners, and post offices.
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