Risk and Compliance Manager

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**Risk and Compliance**
**| Location - Sydney**
- Be part of a high-performing & technically proficient team
- Fast track your career progression and development
- Allianz is a Flex Ready employer, flexible working options are available

The primary purpose of this Line 1 role is to manage the implementation, execution and monitoring of the risk and compliance management framework, partnering with the business to ensure that current and emerging risks are appropriately identified, assessed and monitored.

**What are you going to do?**
- Provide ongoing communication and advice to Risk Owners/Divisional Management on operational and compliance risks.
- Provide advice on the design, implementation and ongoing monitoring and maintenance of division-specific compliance and risk frameworks, policies, procedures and controls in support of the above, ensuring that business activities remain within the defined risk appetite.
- Provide advice on the implementation and promotion of corporate compliance and risk frameworks and policies, liaising closely with the Second Line of Defence on all divisional-specific risk management and compliance matters, ensuring that operational compliance plans, quarterly risk declarations and risk views and all risk and control assessment activities are kept up-to-date and adhered to.
- Advise on risk management matters the division faces, or may face in future, and in the development of processes to manage risk in line with the Board approved risk appetite and Allianz Risk Management Framework.
- Support the business with the development, execution and monitoring of remedial activity for operational loss/risk incidents, provide insights on root cause(s) as well as identify what actions can be implemented to prevent such losses in the future and ensure operational loss/risk incidents are resolved in a timely manner, escalating as required.
- Monitor and report on key risk indicators and internal control performance to relevant internal stakeholders
- Monitor and report on the management of breaches, incidents and issues, key and emerging risks, controls assurance and regulatory change.

**What will you bring to the table?**
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (preferred).
- Significant leadership experience in risk management, compliance or internal audit role in a complex, matrixed financial services (corporate) organisation
- Demonstrated experience in assessing the level of risk and in developing and executing plans to mitigate risk.
- Demonstrated technical understanding of design and operating effectiveness of controls.
- Demonstrated experience in process and management control design combined with the expert ability to understand operational and compliance risks inherent or emerging in a business area.
- Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders to establish strong professional relationships and influence outcomes.
- Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity and provide pragmatic commercial solutions to meet stakeholder expectations.
- Proven analytical and critical thinking capability to interpret a range of data, identify patterns, trends and links that inform judgements and solutions.
- Proven understanding of the laws, legislation, regulations and prudential standards which man affect a general insurer.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence, positively influencing risk behaviours throughout AAL.

**What's on offer?**
- Access on-demand lifelong learning and take control of your career development.
- Learn through being supported and encouraged to take on new challenges that will help you to develop new skills
- Be part of a team that’s open-minded, supportive, approachable and genuinely focused on customer outcomes
- We understand about work-life balance, we have adopted a hybrid working approach and we are always willing to discuss flexible & remote working options with our employees. Allianz is an accredited FlexReady employer.
- Access a range of benefits, such as discounts at retailers, travel firms, health insurers, gyms