Head of Risk Advisory, Assurance

**About the Role**
Are you a seasoned risk management professional with a passion for driving strategic initiatives and ensuring robust risk management frameworks? We are seeking a Head of Risk Advisory, Assurance and Fraud to lead our team of experts in enhancing our risk management strategies and frameworks.

This pivotal role will involve working closely with partners across the BOQ Group to implement, monitor, and provide targeted assurance of our Risk Management Strategy (RMS) and operational risk management framework (ORMF).

In this role, you will lead a team of risk management experts to drive the implementation and monitoring of the RMS and ORMF. You will provide trusted advice to the business on risk management, issue and incident response, and control environment effectiveness.

Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices, you will drive a strong risk culture across the Group and embed key risk management processes. You will collaborate with various departments, including marketing, IT, and customer service, to achieve strategic objectives and minimize operational disruptions.

Additionally, you will lead the design and implementation of an effective fraud risk management framework and monitor and report on risks, issues, and control environment effectiveness to enable proactive risk management.
**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will bring a proven track record in assurance and risk management, gained through roles in risk management, assurance, or internal audit within a financial services business. You will possess excellent leadership, project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to develop good working relationships and share knowledge effectively, are essential. You will have in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry best practices in risk management.

A bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field is required, along with proven tenure in controls assurance, operational risk, internal audit, or other relevant risk management leadership roles. The ability to manage ambiguity and conflicting priorities, and to balance technical, commercial, and other issues to benefit the business, is crucial.

You will also need a high level of personal credibility and influence at all organisational levels, and a commitment to upholding the BOQ Group values of Spirited, Optimistic, Curious, Inclusive, Accountable, and Lionhearted.

**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**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**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 expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, refere