Director of Risk and Assurance
6 days ago
The Role The Director of Assurance, Review and Risk for the Defence Digital Group will play a key leadership role in providing timely and accurate advice to senior leaders, identifying and mitigating risks, and reporting on findings.
You will be responsible for:
- Providing expert advice on risk, assurance and performance management, and supporting the Defence Digital Group with risk, audit and assurance activities.
- Establishing a comprehensive assurance and internal audit system, and coordinating risk and audit assurance activities for the Defence Digital Group.
- Enhancing the management of risk within the Defence Digital Group, and actively managing operational and enterprise level risks aligned with Defence priorities.
- Formulating repeatable and reportable performance measures to ensure that the Defence Digital Group is achieving required outcomes outlined in the Defence Digital Group Business Plan.
- Conducting internal reviews to provide a performance view of all Defence Digital Group operations, including project and program performance.
This is a highly visible and influential role, with the successful candidate required to conduct regular health checks on the Defence Digital Group, report on success factors, and assist senior leaders in identifying vulnerabilities from emerging risks.
About our Team Do you want to be part of an agile, capable workforce that will manage best-in-class sovereign capabilities for Defence?
We have a defined scope, a refined vision and structural improvements that will enable us to deliver ICT at the speed our strategic environment demands, while giving our people greater opportunity to build or round out their skills and experience.
If you are seeking to work in a fast-paced dynamic team with an inclusive and supportive working environment that values your contribution, supports your professional development and provides flexible working options, then Defence Digital Group is the place for you.
At Defence Digital Group, the opportunities are endless:
- A competitive remuneration and leave package and 15.4% superannuation.
- You have the opportunity to build and work on modern, best-in-class global platforms as we empower people to design, deliver, and sustain digital capability using agile methodologies.
- Defence Digital Group and Defence are full of exciting work opportunities you will not find anywhere else. You can have multiple careers within the one organisation, with sites in all States and Territories.
- A range of roles with career paths for each, especially where Digital Professionals can remain working 'on the tools' even as they progress without the need to move into 'management'.
- We invest heavily in developing the expertise of our people in their chosen field to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to work with inspiring leaders and in great teams to deliver essential military capability.
- We know that as much as you may love your job, it is important to be able to get away. We provide generous leave entitlements for whatever happens in life.
- We provide a range of wellbeing programs dedicated to supporting you and your family through whatever work and life have to offer.
- You have free access to fitness facilities such as gymnasiums at most sites nationally, to support your mental and physical health.
- We offer flexible and agile ways of working to empower you to work in a way that reflects your circumstances and your lifestyle.
- Defence offers free parking at many Defence sites.
Our Ideal Candidate Our EL 2 DDG Director roles will exercise independence, have demonstrated excellent leadership skills within a diverse and integrated workforce of capability-focused professionals and is responsible to achieve complex risk, audit and assurance deliverables.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- An excellent understanding of Australia's strategic policy.
- Extensive work experience with risk, audit and assurance.
- Understanding of the requirements of risk, audit and assurance within the public sector (including working with ANAO findings).
- Exceptional leadership qualities and capabilities to lead a team to achieve outcomes.
- Outstanding communication, planning and relationship building skills to work across all stakeholder levels.
- Experience providing guidance to senior level officials.
- Proven experience of being a trusted advisor to senior Government officials. Most importantly, you must be a strong and flexible leader, and thrive in a dynamic environment.
- Additional professionalisation, training and development will be offered to successful candidates.
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