Risk and Compliance Manager

**The Opportunity**:
Due to an exciting phase of transformation and expansion, a new opportunity exists in Sydney for a Risk and Compliance Manager to join Gallagher Bassett’s Risk, Audit and Compliance team. The team are responsible for the development and maintenance of all GB’s risk frameworks as well as overseeing all risk management activity, compliance activity (regulatory and contractually) and audit activity, both internal and external. Their vision is to be a valued business partner enabling GB to balance risk and reward, in making well-informed decisions, leading to superior strategic outcomes.

This opportunity will see you leading the delivery of the Compliance & Audit Framework for various operational divisions in collaboration with a national team. In addition to this, you will support the business in developing best practice risk management.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Develop and oversee risk-based, client-focused and value-adding risk and compliance frameworks including scopes of audit, delivery of audit activity, reviewing risk audit and compliance reports, reporting to regulatory bodies, track and report on progress of the business performance against agreed audit action plans / risk management strategies and improvement opportunities, risk profiling, development of risk appetite metrics and reporting, oversight of external audits and incidents/complaints, assess potential fraud risks and develop fraud protection tools.
- Build great working relationships as a key liaison with clients, external auditors, senior leadership team, risk governing bodies, oversight of the business risk profile and activity within our risk management system.
- Participate in organic client growth and feedback opportunities to our internal client support teams;
- Foster open, transparent and trusting relationships with our internal and external clients.
- Tertiary qualifications and extensive experience in risk, compliance and/or audit. Exposure to the insurance or financial services industries will be highly regarded;
- Demonstrated success in leading and embedding a quality improvement culture;
- Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to engage at all levels of organisation;
- Strong statistical, analytical, interpreting and reporting skills;
- Ability to read and interpret different legislation, regulation and contracts;
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.

**If you live our values and demonstrate the required capabilities, we can offer you the following**:

- Competitive remuneration packaging;
- Collaborative working environment - friendly, flexible and supportive working environment which is built around great team support and rewarding opportunities;
- Exciting career - as our Company grows, so do the opportunities for our people;
- Opportunities for ongoing education and development;
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme

**About us**:
Gallagher Bassett (GB) is Australia’s largest Third-Party Administrator (TPA). Our focus is refreshingly simple: we manage insurance claims on behalf of insurers, brokers, government bodies and self-insured corporations. GB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gallagher, a global organisation employing over 33,000 employees.

GB has six offices in Australia located in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Northern Territory, Adelaide and Perth employing over 1200 staff.

**To apply**

If you want to be a part of making a difference in peoples’ lives, then we would love to hear from you

**To be considered for this opportunity you must have the right to live and work in Australia when applying.**

**Agency applicants will not be considered for this position.**
- Gallagher Bassett is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Indigenous Australian applicants are encouraged to apply. As a member of the Diversity Council Australia, we recognise the importance of, and embrace diversity in the workplace. We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business._