Risk Partner

**About the Role**
BOQ Group is looking for an experienced Operational Resilience Risk Specialist to join our team. In this exciting opportunity, you will provide expert guidance, oversight, and constructive, respectful challenge on Operational Resilience risks to ensure we achieve our customer-centric business outcomes.

Your key duties will include developing, maintaining, and testing the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Framework in compliance with regulatory obligations for the Group. The Risk Partner will provide thought-leadership on Operational Resilience management, which covers the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from shocks and changes in the business environment to continue operations and achieve strategic goals.

This will be achieved through a focus on policy life cycle, key stakeholder engagement, development and continuous improvement of Operational Risk Frameworks, and compliance with BCM Policy and Frameworks. Sounds good, doesn't it?

**About you**

Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills are required to work effectively across all levels of BOQ Group, often with limited supervision. Knowledge of regulatory requirements and standards related to operational resilience is necessary to be successful in this role.

With your extensive experience partnering with business functions and working collaboratively across the three lines of defence to enhance operational resilience capabilities, you'll set yourself up for success to develop and implement operational resilience policies to enable objective challenge.

Working for us is fun and fast-paced, and we are seeking top talent to take us where we want to go. BOQ Group people are easy to spot. They're smart, energetic, full of ideas and passionate about what they do. If this sounds like you and you're looking to join a multi-brand transforming the face of digital banking, then we would love to chat
**About Us**
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose - to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.

Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal - to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

**How to Apply**

BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ04131