Governance Lead

**Governance Lead**(**Job Number**:240000MX**)**

**Description**

**About the role**
- RACQ is committed to continuously improving our governance practices and ensuring that they are aligned with our business and stakeholders’ needs. By supporting our business operations, effective corporate governance is key to RACQ’s ability to deliver on our purpose and strategy. The leadership role will manage the governance activities within RACQ’s Corporate Services function and will provide high quality and professional services to ensure the function remains compliant. The Corporate Services function is responsible for RACQ’s shared services including Accounting and Finance, Performance, Procurement, Property, Employee Relations (HR), Corporate Legal, and Company Secretary. The position will be responsible for:

- Providing adequate oversight to support sound decision making and assists management and the Board to effectively discharge their responsibilities.
- Providing timely and accurate information on the status of governance matters and seek a speedy resolution to those matters to ensure mínimal disruption to deliverables.
- Uplifting the governance framework within the function.
- Together with First Line Risk, play a key role in developing a positive risk culture across the team and uplifting risk management.
- Management representations process, including management and board representation for Financial Statements, the Greater Good Report and other matters reported to the Board and/or Committee.
- Ensuring policies are compliant and up to date.
- Board and Management Policies and Procedures maintained by Corporate Services.
- Board’s Group Delegations Policy.
- The Managing Director and Group CEO Sub-Delegations Policy.
- Maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders across RACQ to ensure they remain engaged.

**About you**
- We will trust you to have:

- Experience working in risk, compliance, audit, or governance roles, preferably within the Insurance or Banking sector.
- Technical risk/governance management framework expertise.
- Strong working knowledge of regulatory environments and the corporate support operational function.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organisation, including Senior Management and Directors.
- Courage to speak-up regardless of position when things are wrong.
- Strong attention to detail, critical analysis skills, aptitude for empathetic reasoning, and stakeholder management skills.
- Qualifications as a Certified Practicing Accountant or Chartered Accountant.

**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.

**What we offer you**:

- 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 discounts on health programs and access to wellbeing initiatives such as yoga, mindfulness and free and confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Invest in your development with in-house development programs and access to 80,000+ online courses.

**RACQ is a ‘Circle Back Initiative’ employer** - we commit to respond to every applicant.

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