Project Risk Assurance Specialist

**Project Risk Assurance Specialist**(**Job Number**:240000UD**)**

**Description**

RACQ is seeking a highly skilled Project Assurance Specialist responsible for creating and maintaining effective second line project assurance models, methods, and procedures. This role provides independent assurance across RACQ's project portfolio and business-led change projects. You will collaborate with first, second, and third-line stakeholders to finalise artefacts, tools, and procedures, ensuring they meet high-quality standards and planned objectives.

**In this role, you will be responsible to**:

- Develop and maintain project assurance frameworks, models, and procedures.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery and compliance.
- Provide operationally independent advice to senior management.
- Participate as a second-line representative on project steering committees.
- Oversee risk and compliance project activities, ensuring correct identification and management of risks.
- Proactively escalate gaps and issues to senior risk management leaders.
- Ensure compliance with Project Management Institute PMBOK principles and RACQ Portfolio Delivery framework.
- Develop and deliver education programs to support the implementation of assurance methods.

**About you**:

- Highly developed interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence; ability to communicate with clarity and influence at all levels.
- Experience in assuring projects in a financial services context.
- Significant experience in compliance, risk, or audit management roles.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret complex information and present findings clearly.
- Experience in process and management control design.
- Proven ability to develop compliance systems to automate governance, streamline work, and reduce errors.
- In-depth knowledge of the Australian regulatory environment and change drivers.
- Experience in developing frameworks for sustained compliance with Australian prudential regulations.
- Knowledge of financial and insurance services industry laws, including the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Australian Consumer Law, Corporations Act 2001, Privacy Act 1988, and others.
- Experience in administering Australian financial services (AFS) licensee requirements, including product design and distribution obligations.

**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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**Work Locations**

Eight Mile Plains 2649 Logan Road Eight Mile Plains 4113