Head of Prudential

Company Description

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**Job Description**:
This role is a direct report of the GM Prudential, Risk Strategy & Compliance. You will be a thought leader, providing experienced professional design leadership to ensure TAL’s risk management frameworks are aligned to the company’s strategic direction and are compliant with legislation, regulation, current governance, best practice and commercially effective.

You will work closely with the Executive Team, Senior Leaders across all business divisions and staff within the Risk Office to ensure culture, conduct and compliance risks are managed effectively in accordance with relevant legislation, regulations and the Board-approved risk appetite whilst balancing exceptional customer experience and commercial outcomes.

**Some key accountabilities for this role include**:

- Managing TALs prudential compliance framework including maintaining a productive and effective relationship with APRA; -providing thought leadership, advice and influence in strengthening TALs Governance, Culture, Remuneration and Accountability (GRCA) framework; and
- Developing, maintaining and managing TALs regulatory breach reporting framework.

This role will be required to work with a broad range of stakeholders across the group as well as the Board, Executive Team and Regulators. You will manage a small team of compliance professionals as well as be a key contributor to the Risk Office Leadership Team and the organisation's Senior Leadership Team.

**Qualifications**:

- Relevant academic qualifications
- Strategic, forward-thinking, commercial, agile and a transformational solutions-finder
- Persuasive, analytical and articulate with exceptional collaboration and facilitation skills
- Able to balance multiple, competing priorities and stakeholders in a constantly changing environment
- A coach, mentor, negotiator, and relationship builder
- Passionate about making a difference and leading others to do the same
- Strong internal and external service orientation and relationship management skills, with a focus on partnering with the business to achieve strategic organisation objectives
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence across all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing new framework, policy and standards in a complex financial services institution
- A good working knowledge of relevant professional standards and codes
- Experience in reporting and presenting to the executive, Board committees and the Board with an ability to assimilate complex risk analytics into understandable, written analyses
- Strong understanding of relevant legislation, regulations and APRA prudential standards within the Financial Services industry and Life Insurance industry
- Experience in dealing with regulators in a financial services environment
- Demonstrated experience in uplifting risk and compliance culture and capability.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

Additional Information

To provide you with the best experience, we can accommodate you at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team at any time.

TAL is recognised by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice. We are proud to be a member of Diversity Council Australia and the Australian Network on Disability. For information on our reconciliation journey, take a look at our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s respo