Risk Initiative Consultant

**About US**

UniSuper is a place where brilliant thinkers and passionate people come together. As one of Australia's largest super funds, the work you'll do with us makes a meaningful difference today and tomorrow for our members, the planet and for you.

We offer an impressive range of benefits that includes a highly achievable annual bonus; additional leave including 3 days over Christmas and 3 days 'Community and Culture' leave allowing you to celebrate and contribute to things that are important to you outside of work; the opportunity to choose between 17% and 11% superannuation; $1500 personal development budget and expectational parental leave.

**The opportunity**

This Melbourne based, 12 months Max Term Contract role supports initiatives to Enhance Risk & Governance at UniSuper. You will do this by providing support to regulatory change projects, in particular implementing requirements to comply with APRA standard CPS230 Operational Risk Management and Resilience, and the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR). Other regulatory change initiatives may be included in scope over time.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk, your role will involve support to the key people responsible for delivering the CPS230/FAR project, primarily the Risk Initiative Manager and specialists responsible for streams of deliverables.

This is a fantastic opportunity for somebody looking to enhance their skills in project management whilst building their expertise in risk and business resilience in an ever-changing superannuation regulatory environment. A significant part of your role will involve engaging with stakeholders to deliver the following outcomes:

- **Support for the Risk & Governance and People Leadership Teams **, by playing a key support role in the implementation plan of CPS230 and FAR.
- **Play a key support role in all stakeholder engagement and communication, **by organising meetings, coordinating attendance and preparing/distributing material.
- **Play a lead role in Governance and Project reporting **by updating our project tracking system (Sensei), preparing and presenting status reports to various audiences, and supporting the preparation of material for the Executive team and Board.
- **Develop material for the key artefacts that are required under CPS230 and FAR, **including Critical Operations, Material Service Providers and Accountability Statements, ensuring information is captured in our Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) system in a timely and accurate manner.
- **Co-ordinate and work with external Consultants **who will be engaged from time to time to provide assurance over the project.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you should ideally be able to demonstrate:

- Three years or more experience with Superannuation or the Financial Services industry essential
- Knowledge of risk, resilience and compliance requirements and Governance Risk and Compliance systems preferred
- Strong organisational skills with experience in project or change delivery support preferred
- Ability to work independently but thrive in a team environment where we work Better Together to deliver results
- A willingness to “roll your sleeves up and get stuff done”
- Good time management and prioritisation skills
- Sound written and verbal communication, including an ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, internally and externally.

We're passionate about knowledge and sharing it amongst our members and our employees, therefore we believe that a balance of working from home and time in office is the best way to collaborate and build relationships with your colleagues. We ask you to be able to commit to 60% of your time in office.

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