Third-party Risk Advisor

**Brisbane OR Sydney**
- **Newly formed team, opportunity to make your mark**:

- **Wide reaching role supporting a regulatory standard**:

- **Collaborative and supportive team environment, hybrid working**

We’re never just satisfied with how things are - because we know how things could be. And it’s our expert Technology team who forge ahead every day to make those ‘what ifs’ a reality.

Welcome to a place where you can chase real progress and drive real change. And that includes your own career. Being a part of Technology at Suncorp Group means being switched on, endlessly curious and always adaptable. In return, you’ll be supported to bring your own ideas to the table and challenge conventions - with the aim of making life a little brighter, simpler and better for our customers and each other.

**About the role**:
This is your opportunity to join a newly established team within one of Australia’s leading Insurers. The Third-Party Risk Advisor will be responsible for meeting the requirements of the Operational Risk Management Standard and the third-party risk oversight required by this Standard. Specifically, you will partner and drive an uplift in risk management practices across the management of Third-Parties.

Suncorp has an enviable culture, and you will be fully supported in this newly formed role where you will have the chance to help define your responsibilities. It is essential that you thrive in a small team environment, work collaboratively, and have a flexible mind-set.

**What you’ll do**:

- Be the trusted advisor to business, Procurement and LoD1 stakeholders regarding third-party risk management;
- Provide consistent guidance as to the minimum required assessments & ongoing management activities for third-parties engaged via the Procurement team;
- Liaise with various internal stakeholders hand-offs across the risk and security assessment process
- Provide consistent end-to-end third party-risk management of third-parties engaged via the Procurement team
- Drive regulatory management and change activity (linking to things such as UCT, Sanctions & AB&C, Privacy, CPS230)
- Responsibility for operationalising third-party risk frameworks to deliver high quality and valuable risk programs of support to improve financial, customer and compliance performance;
- Contribute to effective risk management (from a 1st line perspective)

**What you’ll bring**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in insurance, banking, or financial services
- Minimum 2 years’ third-party risk management and outsource risk management experience, or similar
- Demonstrated experience in influential communication to stakeholders
- High level of flexibility with the ability to adapt to change
- Strong relationship management and problem-solving skills
- Strong negotiation skills demonstrated across internal stakeholder management contexts
- Strong presentation and written & verbal communication skills, to technical and business audiences (particularly the ability to effectively explain and convey messages at the senior executive level)

**What we can offer you**:

- Discounts and offers on a range of retail favourite stores as well as banking and insurance products.
- A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks secondary carer leave, and unlimited paid emergency response leave.
- Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs.
- Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave.
- Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council.

**About Suncorp Group**:
We’re proud to be a part of the Suncorp Group family alongside some of Australia’s most trusted and diverse names in insurance. Together, we share a drive to make the complex simple and bring our customers peace of mind when it matters most - while helping to evolve and innovate the ways we can serve our community every day. That comes with all kinds of exciting opportunities for you to grow your own career. Whether you’re guiding people through life’s biggest moments or providing them with support in times they need it most, you’ll be driven forward by our shared customer obsession and supported at every step of the journey.

For over 100 years Suncorp Group has been driven by our guiding Purpose - to build futures and protect what matters. To ensure we deliver on that Purpose, we’ve made a commitment, built on trust, empowerment, and flexibility - to help our people unlock their full potential and unleash their best and brightest selves. With the backing and support of some of the most trusted names in banking and insurance, the Suncorp Group family provides our people with every opportunity to grow their career as they make a meaningful difference for our customers and our communities. We’re excited about what we can achieve together, working every