Manager, Line 1 Risk

**About the Role**
As our Manager in Line 1 Risk, you’ll play a pivotal role in embedding a proactive risk culture across our Transformation & Operations division. You’ll partner closely with Business Unit leaders - specifically the Product division for this role - and Group Risk overall to ensure alignment with BOQ Group’s Risk Management Strategy and standards.

Your key focus will be on delivering pragmatic risk advice across the Product division, designing and uplifting controls, and supporting change initiatives with robust risk assessments. You’ll also lead governance activities, manage risk profiles, and contribute to divisional risk forums.

This role is instrumental in strengthening our control environment and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, while mentoring Risk Analysts and supporting the delivery of BOQ Group’s remedial action plan, affectionately known as the rQ program (Risk Intelligence).
**About you**
You’ll bring to BOQ group proven experience in risk management, ideally within financial services, and a strong grasp of non-financial risk and regulatory frameworks. You’re confident in designing and implementing risk controls, performing risk in change assessments, and delivering insights that support strategic decision-making.

Partnering with key stakeholders - at differing levels - is your expertise, enabling you to influence and articulate complex risk concepts clearly whilst being practical in a commercial sense. Knowledge of financial products would put you in good stead for this role You describe yourself as analytical, detail-oriented, and thrive in collaborative fast-paced environments.

Working for us is fun and fast-paced, and we are seeking top talent to take us where we want to go. BOQ Group people are easy to spot. They're smart, energetic, full of ideas and passionate about what they do. If this sounds like you and you're looking to join a multi-brand on the forefront of digital financial services, we'd love to chat
**About Us**
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose - to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.

Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal - to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
**Our Benefits**
At BOQ Group, we are passionate about creating an exceptional work environment that nurtures both your professional and personal growth. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to enhance your well-being, provide financial security, and foster a sense of community and inclusion. Here are just some of the fantastic perks you can enjoy as part of our team:

- **Flexible working arrangement**:

- Balance your work and personal life with ease.
- **Discounted financial products** - Enjoy exclusive rates on our financial services across the Group.
- **Salary sacrificing options** - Maximise your take-home pay with our salary packaging options.
- **Paid parental leave with no minimum requirements** - Spend quality time with your new family member without any worries.
- **Purchase additional annual leave** - Need more time off? You can buy extra leave days.
- **Discounted private health insurance plan** - Take care of your health with our special rates.
- **Employee Assistance Program (EAP)** - Access confidential support for personal and professional challenges for you and your family
- **Access to employee network groups** - Connect with peers through our First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers, and accessibility groups.
- **Pride in Diversity membership**: We are proud members of Pride in Diversity and actively participate in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Join us and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and community
**How to Apply**

BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressio