Project Risk Assurance Specialist

**Project Risk Assurance Specialist**
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**Job Number**:
**230001SQ**
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**Description**

As our new Project Risk Assurance Specialist, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining effective enterprise-wide project assurance models, methods and procedures for use by second line across the RACQ project portfolio, and business led change projects.

You will work collaboratively with stakeholders in first and third line to ensure the finalised artefacts, tools and procedures produce reliable outcomes. Alongside working collaboratively with portfolio and individual projects to provide assurance over the delivery of planned objectives and quality standards committed to the Board, and report on deviations and exceptions.

As a trusted delegate and second line representative on project steering committees, you will provide operationally independent advice to senior management, obligation owners, assurance over first line project activities and actively engage specialist second line resources where further input is required.

**About the role**:

- Promote risk and compliance behaviours and standards across the organisation in keeping the organisation’s target risk and compliance maturity.
- Evaluate and recommend risk architecture design improvements to enable risk and compliance maturity and mature data governance to target state, with a special focus on project assurance.
- Deliver, monitor and assure mechanisms to improve compliance awareness, good practices, and appropriate attitudes.
- Advise and assist senior management in the preparation of reporting to relevant regulators of any reportable compliance breaches or near-misses or regulatory engagements which arise from the project delivery.

**About you**:

- Significant experience within a compliance, risk or audit management role acquired in a complex, matrixed organisation.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence; capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence, positively influencing risk behaviours
- Highly developed analytical skills, demonstrating the capability to analyse and interpret complex information from a broad range of sources (locally and internationally) and to present findings in a clear and compelling manner.
- Proven experience developing enterprise-wide frameworks to enable sustained compliance with Australian prudential frameworks, regulation, and ISO 37301:2021 Compliance Management Systems.
- Experience establishing and maintaining systems to administer Australian financial services (AFS) licensee requirements and obligations including product design and distribution obligations; responsible manager coverage; monitoring and supervision frameworks; general compliance; dispute resolution; and conduct and disclosure arrangements.
- Sound understanding of contemporary Australian corporate governance

**Why join RACQ?**

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. If you have any support or access requirement, please advise us at the time of applying.

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, parental leave of 13 weeks primary carer leave, purchased leave up to 4 weeks per year, cultural observance leave, substitution of public holidays for cultural/religious reasons, personal leave for wellbeing, gender affirmation leave.
- Prioritise your wellbeing with our onsite and virtual health hub, discounts on health programs and access to wellbeing initiatives such as yoga, mindfulness and free and co