Insurance Risk Lead

**Insurance Risk Lead**
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**Job Number**:
**220001NN**
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**Description**

We are looking for an experienced Insurance Risk Lead to drive an ongoing risk awareness culture across RACQ Insurance, inclusive of a self-reporting culture to raise further awareness and education of operational incidents and appropriate actions to address.

Within this appointment you will be able to utilise agile risk management tools to ensure accurate and effective reporting takes place from a governance overview perspective: alongside providing active support and training to ensure smooth implementation of risk policies and governance directives.

Key responsibilities:

- Support the consideration of the interests of the membership in risk decision making, reporting and monitoring across the Group.
- Delivery of risk decision support and monitoring advisory to the 1st line of defence business units and group functions.
- Provide assurance to the boards, committees and senior executives that the interests of the membership are being appropriately considered in risk decision making, reporting and monitoring across the Group.
- Facilitate annual risks workshops to ensure the risk register is update to reflect the current environment.
- Lead risk owners to consider emerging risks and to be pro-active in addressing these risks.
- Lead risk assurance activities including control analysis and testing, and risk stress testing for the RACQ Insurance company.
- Contribute and support the effective design and implementation of controls for all new and changing processes.

Key skills and experience;
- 5-7 years relevant Risk experience
- Critical analysis of problems to uncover hidden insights with an enquiring mind and inquisitive nature regardless of obstacles.
- Experience working in risk, compliance, audit or governance roles, preferably within the insurance sector.
- Well-developed capability to establish rapport with internal and external stakeholders, and to effectively influence their views, decisions and actions through well-reasoned and researched arguments.
- Ability to adapt strategy to changing internal and external drivers and to promulgate changes stakeholders.
- Ability to act unsupervised to achieve communicated objectives.
- A highly developed aptitude for empathetic reasoning.
- Technical risk management framework expertise.
- Courage to speak-up regardless of position when things are wrong.
- Critical analysis of problems to uncover hidden insights.
- An enquiring mind and inquisitive nature to deep dive into issues, practices or organisations regardless of obstacles.
- Strong working knowledge of insurance operations, and regulatory environments.

It is an exciting time to be part of RACQ as we continue our transformation towards better, smarter solutions that deliver more security and prosperity for Queenslanders. We are big enough to make a real difference in our community, yet small enough to nurture your professional and personal development.

By joining RACQ, you’ll be part of new sustainability initiatives, including a commitment to being a carbon neutral organisation by 2030. We’ve invested in and partnered with sustainable companies, including the introduction home solar and batteries, Green Home and Car Loans, and many other products and initiatives. We’ll continue to advocate for, research, and offer green solutions.

At RACQ we are passionate about building a diverse and inclusive workplace to create better outcomes for our employees and our members. We aim for our teams to be a true reflection of our communities and are committed to inclusion particularly people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, and those who may experience diversity or disability related barriers in securing employment. Applicants from these and other diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Benefits of joining our team
- Our employee benefits are designed to enrich your work life, your home, and the community you live in, some of these include:

- Financial benefits and discounts on a range of banking, assistance, and insurance products
- Give back to our communities with paid volunteer leave, payroll giving and volunteering for community events such as MotorFest and EKKA
- A range of flexible working and leave options, including 12 weeks paid parental leave, 2 weeks paid non-primary caregiver leave and purchased leave up to 4 weeks per year
- Prioritise your wellbeing with our onsite and virtual health hub, discounts on health programs and access to wellbeing initiatives such as yoga
- Invest in your development with in-house development programs and online courses and many more

Ready to apply? You’ve got this.

RACQ is a ‘Circle Back Initiative’ employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.

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**Work Locations**

Edward Street/Eight Mile Plains