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Associate director | technology project assurance

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Posted: 31 July
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* Inspiring & Diverse Leadership Team Committed to Team Development
* Entrepreneurial and Collaborative Culture
* Tier 1 & 2 Clients Across a Broad Variety of Sectors
* Progressive Employee Wellbeing & Benefits Policies

The Company

Robert Half Executive Search has been exclusively retained to identify an accomplished senior Project Assurance professional with strong technology delivery credibility and a proven track record of applying assurance in complex, regulated environments. Our client is open to hiring aspirational and driven individuals committed to building high-performing teams in an entrepreneurial and autonomous culture.

This globally respected firm offers an agile boutique business locally and deep subject matter expertise, world-class methodologies and financial backing that comes with being part of a large global corporate. The firm's consultancy services span Risk and Compliance Advisory, Technology, Cybersecurity, Internal Audit and Business Performance Improvement servicing the Financial Services, Corporate and Government sectors.

Working with an inspiring and diverse Leadership Team committed to their teams' development, employees of this firm enjoy the freedom to generate exciting and challenging pieces of work and focus on areas of particular interest.

Our client promotes a flexible work environment, progressive wellbeing policies and internal networking groups, a holistic suite of benefits and a competitive remuneration package.

The Role

Your primary focus will be leading the execution and delivery of technology project assurance services, providing exceptional service to clients.

Additionally, you will:

* Identify, mitigate, and manage risks during all stages of technology projects while fostering a risk-aware culture among project teams.
* Drive continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring effective risk management practices are integrated throughout all projects.
* Review delivery, governance, and risk management of complex transformation programs.

Including reviews of:

* Ongoing system implementations.
* Project health checks.
* Project governance.
* System integration.
* System testing.
* Business change management.
* Benefits management.

Your Profile

You will be a highly accomplished, articulate and credible consulting professional from one of the Big 4 consulting firms, a large technology consulting business or a boutique consulting practice. Alternatively, you may currently be working in industry and seeking a return to the consulting world.

The ideal candidates must be able to engage across the entire delivery lifecycle and bring a risk and compliance mindset embedded into delivery assurance.

A track record of balancing high-quality execution / delivery activities with regular networking to uncover business opportunities, will set you up for an outstanding career with this growing firm. The degree to which you are involved in, and targeted on, revenue generation activities will obviously differ depending on your seniority and tenure in the firm.

Our client will create tailored career plans to ensure the cadence of an accelerated career plan to the next level for each team member and is keen to consider individuals who are currently at a Director, Associate Director, Senior Manager or Manager (tenured) level.

Key attributes for success in this role include:

* Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Computer Information Systems).
* End-to-End Technology Delivery Knowledge - hands-on understanding across all phases: requirements gathering, solution design, technical architecture, build, system integration, testing, data migration, cutover, and go-live readiness.
* Design and Architecture Fluency - able to interrogate and assess design decisions, technical scope, data flows, interfaces, and integration points and confident engaging with architects, engineers, and technical leads to evaluate delivery feasibility and architecture integrity.
* Testing and Implementation Risk - including test planning, environment readiness, data quality, traceability, defect management, and go/no-go decision governance.
* Regulatory Assurance Experience - understanding of how to assess delivery controls, documentation quality, and evidencing compliance and defensibility.
* Financial Services & Technology Exposure - deep knowledge of financial services delivery contexts - core platforms, high data sensitivity, operational resilience, data lineage, and security.
* Assurance Review Leadership - scope, plan, and execute assurance reviews (e.g. health checks, deep dives, control assessments). Experienced in developing meaningful lines of inquiry, conducting stakeholder interviews, synthesizing evidence, and driving outcomes.
* Experience in contributing to growing revenues through leveraging commercial contacts and diversifying the services offered to existing clients.
* Prior exposure to supervising in a team environment, coaching strong teams and fostering interpersonal connections.

What this firm can offer to prospective Employees

* Tailored progression and promotion planning.
* Varied projects and engagements across a diverse client base, including some of Australia's largest organisations.
* A career with the opportunity to learn, inspire and advance within a collaborative and diverse company culture.
* Consistent recognition as a great place to work by employees, peers and external research organisations.
* Flexible work arrangements to suit individual needs, recognising the importance of work-life balance.
* A strong track record and appetite for growth nationally and globally.
* Attractive compensation including bonus earning potential.
* Professional membership reimbursements and study assistance.
* Generous Leave policies.
* National and International diversity, equity and inclusion networking groups.
* Global Mobility program.

Apply Today

Please send your resume by clicking on the apply button. Your application will be assessed within 3-5 working days. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Learn more about our recruitment services: https://www.roberthalf.com.au/contact-us


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