Senior Manager, Risk Assurance

2 weeks ago


North Sydney Council, Australia MLC Life Insurance Full time

Job Description - Senior Manager, Risk Assurance H)

Job Description

Description

Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?

At MLC Life Insurance, we're proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We're Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world's leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.

We're driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that's a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.

We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We're a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.

The Role
We have a newly created opportunity to join our Risk, Governance and Legal function as a Senior Manager, Risk Assurance.

Reporting to the General Manager, Risk, you will be responsible for supporting the business with executing our enterprise-wide annual assurance plan, which includes assurance activities across the risk and compliance frameworks, policies, key risks, controls and processes. You will provide Line 2 Risk Management assurance insights, improvement opportunities and relevant reporting to the risk & obligation owners across MLC Life Insurance, so that the company can effectively manage operational risks and compliance obligations within appetite.

This role will see your responsible for:

  • Executing the annual Line 2 Assurance Plan.
  • Performing systemic reviews and deep dives of the implementation of the risk and compliance management frameworks, obligations, operational risks, controls, and processes across the enterprise to ensure risk is managed within appetite.
  • Reporting on all assurance activities to our Stakeholders, Executive Team and Board.
  • Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of risk and compliance management environment.
  • Driving a strong risk culture across the company by role modelling the risk and compliance management frameworks and practices, and monitoring risk in a timely manner.
  • Providing leadership support for one direct report.

About you

You will be a seasoned Risk, Compliance or Audit professional with experience in the Financial Services industry with a pragmatic approach to risk management.

Your tertiary qualification in Legal, Risk Management, Finance or Commerce is coupled with your broad knowledge of the financial services industry, how our business operates and the legislative/regulatory framework.

As a natural communicator, you have strong verbal and written communication skills with proven experience in business writing including Assurance outcome reports and Executive team briefing papers.

Lastly, your balanced set of skills includes critical and analytical thinking, positive interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to work collaboratively across function areas to achieve business outcomes.

Bringing our best to life - why join us?

  • We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
  • We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
  • We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
  • We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
  • We offer tools, resources, and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
  • We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.

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