Manager Operational Risk and Resilience

As the Manager Operational Risk and Resilience, you will be responsible for overseeing and challenging the operational risk and resilience management activities conducted within Great Southern Bank. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Resilience you will oversee the continued development and sustained management of Bank’s operational risk and resilience, business continuity, crisis management and service provider governance.

**You’ll make an impact by**:

- Developing, maintaining and overseeing policies and standards intended to reduce business disruption and ensure compliance to regulatory obligations (CPS230).
- Ensure robust business resilience plans are in place to maintain critical operations and services during crises.
- Targeted operational risk reviews across the business and oversight of controls to support alignment with strategy, business outcomes and compliance with APRA Prudential Standards, particularly CPS230.
- Oversight of control design and implementation, recurring risks and controls review, and resilience assurance and support for APRA notification/consultation.
- Second line challenge and oversight against operational risks, and governance frameworks.
- Analysis of risk profiles, incident and issue data, assessment of Key Risk Indicators and preparation of insights for fact-based reporting on Operational Risk performance and activity across the bank.

**Do things differently with us**

**To succeed in this role, you will have**:

- At least six years Financial Services operational risk and resilience management.
- Experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating various types of risks at a group-wide level including operational resilience, business continuity planning, crisis management, or related fields within the financial services industry.
- Managing and influencing multi-faceted stakeholders (internal and external) to meet competing priorities, different needs, and non-aligned expectations.
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and industry best practices in operational risk and resilience management.
- Demonstrated experience working in second line of defence roles.

**Why Great Southern Bank?**

Whatever your role with us, you’ll be part of a force for good. We’re owned by our customers right here in Australia, so our success benefits everyday people and families. Working at Great Southern Bank, you’ll also enjoy a range of fantastic benefits, some examples include:

- Helping you unlock a brighter future by investing in your development and wellbeing, offering you study leave, a day for you and professional wellbeing coaching.
- Benefits that support you and your wellbeing so that you can thrive at work and at home, today and tomorrow. Enjoy access to our wellbeing centre and the flexibility to work from home two days a week.
- Helping you to achieve your financial goals and positively impact your family and community. We offer discounts on a wide range of Great Southern Bank products and services such as savings and transaction accounts, insurance, home loans and more

**Imagine working for a bank that truly helps people. You can.**
- At Great Southern Bank, we're committed to building a strong, inclusive and diverse workplace, where people feel a sense of belonging and are valued, connected and respected. We value diverse backgrounds, cultures, abilities, ideas and experiences; recognising the benefits they bring to our work, our communities and the way we help our customers. We support and promote an inclusive culture through flexible ways of working, collaboration, and fair and equitable decision making that empowers our people to be at their best every day._