Risk & Assurance Manager

Job Number:

- 493278

Work type:

- Full Time Permanent, Part Time Permanent

**Location**:

- Sydney (CBD), Brisbane, Melbourne (CBD)

Categories:

- RIsk, Audit & Compliance

**Location**: Can be based in Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane

**Role type**: Full Time Permanent role but open to those seeking 4 days/week

**Way of Working**: 2 days per week in office and rest of week from home

For almost 60 years Guild Insurance Limited (GIL) has been providing innovative and progressive professional indemnity, business, and personal lines insurance solutions. As we near our seventh decade, we continue to innovate and challenge the way we do things and as such, there has never been a better time to join us. In fact, we are putting our money where our mouth is and have embarked on ways of working program that will empower you to work in a way that is contemporary and enabling.

Reporting to the Head of Reinsurance, Insurance Risk and Agency, you will be embedded within the Insurance business. The **Risk & Assurance Manager** role will be responsible for leading the development and embedment of strong risk management and operational governance throughout all functions across the Guild Insurance business in line with the Guild Group Risk Management Framework and Compliance Plan. You’ll be working directly with key stakeholders and executives across the insurance business and the Group Risk, Audit & Compliance team (RAC - second and third line of defence). This role plays an integral part in planning and executing Risk and Control Assurance activities to give the Guild Insurance Leadership Team visibility on the effectiveness of its control environment. This includes ensuring that GIL complies with all its contractual, legal, regulatory and license conditions.

In your role as Risk & Assurance Manager, you’ll be empowered to act with integrity, create an environment for transparent and honest conversations, and have an opportunity that will enable Guild employees do their jobs better, and keep our business and customers safe. This past year has been one of renewal; We have welcomed some new senior talent to the business and have created exciting new opportunities for our existing people.

This is a new and exciting role which given is more than your usual risk role. You’ll be charged with running a new function that influences the culture and attitude to risk, embedding a ‘no surprises’ philosophy and framework that delivers greater ownership for risk and compliance. The core accountabilities of this role as follows (a full position description is available upon request).
- Ensures material risks are identified and managed effectively across the insurance business
- Ensure compliance obligations and implications for new initiatives, products or regulatory changes are understood and processes and controls are developed to ensure compliance
- uplift risk maturity across the insurance business
- Understand the impacts of changes in the legislative and regulatory landscape and operationalising legislative/regulatory changes as required
- Establish and maintain oversight of effective internal controls to ensure ongoing mitigation of key risks and compliance with all relevant legislation regulations and contractual obligations, including preparing reports and presenting to the executive team

**About you**

You won’t be surprised that we are seeking someone that comes with considerable experience in a mid to senior role in compliance assurance or audit. Ideally your experience will come from the general insurance industry. You have sound knowledge of risk frameworks, maybe even involved in the design of a framework, and knowledge of APRA regulations, particularly in the areas of risk, compliance and/or corporate governance. You are curious, astute, determined, outcomes focussed and flexible but structured in your way of working. Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, will be paramount to the success of this role as you partner with our internal stakeholders including leaders and executive teams. Guild Insurance is a relatively small yet nimble organisation and what that means is you’ll need to be comfortable and inspired in a role that's both highly strategic and requires you to roll up your sleeves and participate for elements of the role that are more operational/tactical. We’re an organisation where you’ll be noticed and highly visible, you’re more than just a number at Guild Group.

**Why us?**

We pride ourselves on having an inclusive and productive workplace where we treat our people and our clients with fairness, dignity, and respect. We offer:

- An extra day of paid leave in addition to your annual leave entitlements
- Enhanced long service leave
- Staff discounts with leading retailers
- An innovative Employee Assistance Program that provides counselling and support to all staff members and their immediate family
- Wellbeing initiatives such as health checks and skin check