About the Role
The role will provide support to the Head of Compliance to help ensure icare meets its legal, regulatory and internal policy obligations through the implementation of the Compliance Management Policy and other enterprise risk and compliance frameworks and policies including the Privacy and Data Breach Policy.
Be actively involved in partnering with the business to document first line controls and support the monitoring and oversight plan at the second line and undertake reviews, generate reports and draw insights on the effectiveness of the framework and system.
Responsibilities will include:
- Providing quality SME oversight over the risk and control environment, focusing on the provision of constructive advice and challenge across icare service lines.
- Being a contact for Risk Partners and/or Line 1 Risk to engage with on any compliance matter, not just for the SME area, but rather being part of a pool of compliance SMEs, cross-skilled in SME domains including workers compensation, general insurance and care and finance.
- Partnering with icare Incident Management as key SME advisor and coordinator (as required) for all compliance/privacy issues and/or incidents including undertaking serious harm assessments under the MNDB scheme.
- Assessing and advising on privacy risks in projects and change activities particularly those involving transformation across the icare schemes, process change, platform integration and artificial intelligence and providing practical risk-based recommendations to support responsible innovation.
- Providing advice and guidance on eligible data breaches, regulatory notifications and engagement with the Information and Privacy Commissioner.
- Developing and enhancing privacy frameworks, policies and standards and identifying strategies to avoid privacy incidents including advising on system and process controls.
- Acting as an information source to the business to identify applicable laws, regulations, and external requirements and anticipating regulatory change.
- Undertaking an annual review of Obligations & Controls Register (OCR) to ensure coverage of all key regulatory requirements for SME area.
- Reviewing the ineffective and partially effective compliance controls for SME area and identifying potential areas of exposure that require compliance assessment and remediation/action.
- Providing assurance support as SME to the assurance team, including where required completing assurance activities.
Requirements:
- Deep compliance expertise in privacy and/or technology with a bachelor’s degree in law, business or equivalent (desired).
- Ability to assess and evaluate policies and procedures to support the achievement of the identified compliance objectives and recommend improvements to business operations where necessary ensuring our frameworks and guidance outline key processes.
- Ability to implement a second line monitoring and evaluation plan.
- Conducting second line monitoring and preparing reports of the results for the Group Executive Team and the Board Risk Committee.
- Ability to assist with the conduct of investigations into and assessments of reportable breaches and incidents and providing advice to the business on improvement opportunities.
- Ability to assist with the development and implementation of a company-wide self-assessment and assurance system.
- Ability to assist with delivering enterprise compliance and privacy training.
- Developing relationships with management, staff and risk coordinators to influence and foster a compliance and privacy aware culture.
What we offer:
- Permanent contract with a 35-hour working week.
- 17.5% annual leave loading and flex leave.
- Hybrid working environment, salary of $145,378.00.
- A corporate wellbeing program with subsidised gym membership, free flu vaccinations and health check programs.
- Comprehensive learning and development support aligned to icare’s Core Capabilities.
- Our People Awards - On-the-spot Recognition, Quarterly Values Awards & Our People Annual Awards.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program.
Please note that you must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident of Australia, New Zealand citizen with a current Current Zealand passport or have unrestricted working rights to apply for this role.
icare is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.
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📌 Compliance SME Lead
🏢 icare NSW
📍 City of Sydney