Risk & Compliance Manager

**Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.**

It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity - we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to **Help People to Thrive**.

**Your New Role**:
The role is accountable for providing oversight, independent monitoring and advice on risk management and compliance and for fostering the development of a mature risk and compliance capability and culture across Wealth & Capital Markets.

**Your New Role Looks Like This**:

- Drive business acceptance within Wealth & Capital Markets through influence and advice, utilizing past experience of compliance and risk management, working with AU Group Risk & Compliance resources and other Group resources where appropriate.
- Lead and implement a program to increase business awareness of the risk management and compliance frameworks including the linkages between risk appetite, risk assessment, control assessment, key risk indicators and incident management.
- Liaise and assist external and internal auditors in the performance of all relevant compliance plan audits, licensee audits and compliance process and procedure audits.
- Provide a forward looking lens across the macro regulatory environment and assess the impact of these changes on W&CM.
- Be an active participant in key business unit governance forums, providing independent risk insight, leadership challenge and influence and support the business to safely meet its strategic objectives.
- Drive a genuinely, customer centric culture through sustained leadership commitment
- Influence management to consider risk management and decisions through the lens of the customer

**About You**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications with a minimum of 6 years of experience in risk, compliance, product management, investment management or audit related discipline is required.
- Industry experience relevant to Australian Unity’s business portfolio.
- A strong working knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework surrounding the Wealth & Capital Markets business.
- Experience of leading and influencing through change and working agilely in complex environments.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence others and gain support for relevant initiatives

**Your Benefits**:
You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

- Competitive Remuneration and Incentive Program
- A range of attractive product and service discounts from Australian Unity’s Retail and Wealth Management portfolio - including health insurance and banking products
- Supported Learning and Career Development program
- Flexible Working Arrangements including Work-From-Home days with a real work-life balance
- Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform
- Additional paid Wellbeing and Community Volunteer Days yearly

**What Makes Us, Us**

Putting people first is not just something we say, it's what we do. We care for our people so they can care for themselves and our customers. We stay true to our values (Bold, Warm, Honest), we work hard because it matters and we work well together - collaborating, encouraging and even managing to have some fun.

At Australian Unity we do the right thing and we expect the same from others. Being a member-owned company, means we're focused on our members and customers, not shareholder returns. Our purpose to Help People to Thrive, drives us to make a real difference, every day, big and small. We are passionate about improving the wellbeing of all Australians and about making a positive difference.