Operational Risk & Third Party Risk Specialist (Contract) for a leading Insurance company in Sydney
Your new company
You'll be joining a well established financial services organisation with strong global connections and a commitment to operational resilience, governance excellence, and risk management maturity. The business is strengthening its operational risk capability in line with evolving regulatory expectations required under APRA's Operational Risk Management Standard CPS 230.
Your new role
As the Operational Risk Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering key operational risk, third party governance, and business continuity activities during a critical period. You will provide hands on expertise, coordination, and uplift across the following areas:
Third Party Governance
* Lead the third party governance program, including risk assessments, ongoing monitoring, control validation, and reporting.
* Maintain the third party inventory and assessments, ensuring alignment with the global framework.
* Coordinate and align shared assurance activities across global and regional third parties.
* Ensure compliance with regulatory obligations relating to third party oversight and due diligence.
* Work closely with procurement, legal, business units, and risk teams to drive consistent governance standards.
Business Continuity & Resilience
- Maintain and enhance Business Continuity Plans across the organisation.
- Support and update Business Impact Analyses (BIA) for all business units.
- Assist in incident and crisis management activities, including coordination during disruptive events.
- Lead or support testing, exercising, and training activities focused on resilience readiness.
- Assess and monitor third party and supplier resilience.
- Ensure alignment with relevant regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to governance, reporting, and continuous improvement of the resilience framework.
What you'll need to succeed
- Proven experience in Third Party Risk Management or supplier governance.
- Understanding of APRA's regulatory landscape, with exposure to CPS 230 is considered highly advantageous.
- Strong understanding of Business Continuity, Resilience frameworks, and BIA processes.
- Ability to coordinate incident or crisis responses.
- Knowledge of regulatory expectations related to operational resilience and third party oversight.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, particularly with procurement, risk, legal, and business units.
- Ability to operate independently and deliver outcomes.
What you'll get in return
- A 3-6 month contract with the potential for extension depending on business needs.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- The ability to influence and uplift core operational risk and resilience capabilities.
- A supportive leadership structure and collaborative team culture.
- Competitive hourly or daily rate.
What you need to do now
Please apply now or email your CV to to be shortlisted. Please ensure you have current work entitlements in Australia and are based in Sydney.