Technology Risk Specialist

Job Category: IT,Insurance & Superannuation

Job Description

Let’s grow together

Zurich Cover-More is one of the world’s largest travel insurance and assistance providers and part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer. We stand for more care, more cover, for all, and we look after more than 20 million of the world’s travelers every year, making sure we are there every step of their journey.

Our family of customer-facing brands include Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely and Blue Insurance. We are a connected and caring workforce of more than 2900 employees with teams in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Our global delivery platform provides a consistent multi‑lingual service experience and ability to write insurance policies in more than 50 countries. Zurich Cover-More has more 200 distribution partners around the world including airlines, global travel companies, major banks and credit card providers and leading retailers.

We’re looking for an experiencedTechnology Risk Specialist to join our IT Governance & Transformation team in North Sydney. This is a permanent full‑time role, offering an excellent work‑life balance through our flexible hybrid model (5 days in the office per fortnight). This role supports the uplift of our technology risk maturity and is instrumental in maintaining a robust control environment that protects our people, data and systems. This role would be highly suitable to someone who has line 1 risk experience and motivated in being proactive.

Salary: Salary plus super plus annual bonus incentive

So, what’s the job?

- You’ll assess and monitor technology risks, ensuring alignment with ICIF and other compliance frameworks

- You’ll maintain the technology risk register and lead the development of risk mitigation plans

- You’ll ensure compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements, managing audits and reviews

- You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to embed risk‑aware practices and uplift risk maturity across technology functions

- You’ll support the development and maintenance of policies and procedures related to technology risk

- You’ll liaise with auditors, regulators, and internal stakeholders to support compliance and assurance activities

And what are we looking for?

- You’ll have at least 5+ years’ experience in technology risk, IT audit, or compliance roles within complex environments

- You’ll have a strong understanding of IT governance, risk management practices, and compliance frameworks (e.g., ICIF, ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT)

- You'll have a strong understanding and experience in line 1 risk

- You’ll have demonstrated experience in risk profiling, audit response, and control management

- You’ll have the ability to influence stakeholders and drive compliance across diverse teams

- You’ll have strong communication skills as well as being organised, solution oriented and be a forward thinker

So, why choose us?

We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability and determination.

We have more than 2900 employees worldwide: we’re a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts and customer service professionals. We share a global mission to look after travelers, at every step of their journey.

Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid work week policy ensures our employees maintain work‑life balance with the flexibility of 5 days in the office per fortnight.

Career growth. We want you to continue to learn, develop and bring your ideas to the table. We want to hear what you think, and we want you to work with the business – not for the business

Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need, when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.

Travel and work with us. We’ll help you keep travelling in your career, oh and quite literally with free travel insurance…so start planning for your next trip today

Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. So whatever walk of life you wander, just be you and come as you are.

Apply today and let’s go great places together

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