Control Assurance Advisor

**Job Title**: Control Assurance Advisor - Suncorp Bank
**Req ID**: 91712
**Department**: SB Bank Governance
**Division**: Suncorp Bank
**Location**: Brisbane
About Us
About the Role
As a Control Assurance Advisor, you will play a key role in conducting control testing and assurance activities to manage Suncorp Bank's operational risks and compliance obligations. Through this, you will detect control gaps and provide recommendations, including identifying control automation opportunities, to enhance the Bank's control environment. Additionally, you will elevate control maturity in collaboration with 1LoD Risk & Compliance teams and Control Owners, across the organisation. Furthermore, you will offer coaching and support to drive capability uplift within the Control Assurance team.
**Role Type**: Permanent
**Role Location**: Melbourne or Brisbane
**Work Hours**: Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
What will your day look like?
**As a Control Assurance Advisor, you will**:
Execute timely control tests and assurance activities for Bank operational risk and compliance obligations in alignment with the Control Testing Schedule, ensuring they comply with internal Policies, Frameworks, and Standards, regulatory requirements, and FAR reasonable steps requirements.
Investigate opportunities to identify cost effective strategies for improving the Bank’s control environment. This includes identifying automation opportunities where possible to reduce cost and ensure an improved customer experience.
Negotiate and advocate on control uplift recommendations and opportunities with Control Owners.
Foster effective relationship management and provide training to support Control Owners in understanding their risk accountabilities and enhancing their knowledge of controls across the Bank.
Coordinate the annual Control Test Schedule and necessary sign offs across Bank.
Prepare reporting for Business Area risk forum/ committees on the control environment and control testing updates.
Provide control testing and assurance expertise and coaching to Bank Control Assurance, 1LoD Risk and Compliance advisors and teams to uplift control capability.
Complete ad-hoc work as required to support the delivery of the Bank’s strategic objectives
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Experience in risk, compliance, audit, and/or control assurance
Experience using Suncorp Bank Policies, Frameworks and Standards
Effective communication - convey and explain information, coherently and confidently
Openness to giving and receiving feedback and a commitment to drive self-improvement.
Effective planning and organizing - develop structured processes to proactively define objectives and create a strategic delivery plan, ensuring execution within expected timeframes.
Excellent problem-solving skills - proactively gather relevant information, deconstruct complex issues into manageable components, and formulate practical solutions.
Strong analytical skills - use information to identify key issues, compare data and draw insights.
Strong understanding of banking/finance products, industry, market environment and customer segment would be highly regarded
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. We value a growth mindset, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.
So why join us?
Suncorp Bank is a proud part of the ANZ Group and a place where you'll be doing work that really matters. That's because every role, in every team is working towards supporting the financial wellbeing of our million+ customers.
Our team members' wellbeing is a top priority and we know it's the added extras outside the workplace that can make all the difference. We offer a range of benefits and support resources so you can create a healthy work-life balance, helping you bring your best every day. We also provide tools that enable remote work to support flexible work arrangements whenever possible.
Being part of Suncorp Bank opens a world of exceptional growth opportunities, across Suncorp Bank as well as the many divisions within the ANZ Group which operates in almost 30 markets across the globe.
Job Posting End Date
24/04/2025, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)