Risk and Compliance Officer

**Introduction**:
About us.

A unique life requires a unique bank.

Defence Bank is a member-owned bank that has been proudly serving the Defence Community for 48 years. With over 30 branches across Australia and our award-winning app, Defence Bank is where our members need us - anywhere, anytime.

The bank provides financial products and services to the Australian Defence Force and its unique community, reinvesting profits for the benefit of our members. Our branch network and support office teams work collaboratively to offer tailored banking solutions that support the Defence Community throughout their banking journey.

We are a leader in our sector and our people led, technology enabled environment, celebrates the individual talents, personalities, interests and needs of our people.

**Description**:
The opportunity.

This position directly supports Defence Bank’s purpose, and ensures our members can count on us, by playing a key role in driving ongoing enhancement of our 3 lines of defence risk model through continual engagement with the business across all levels to enhance our risk and controls managements frameworks.

Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, this position is accountable for:

- Ongoing development of the internal control monitoring & testing program
- Conducting testing as part of the controls Monitoring Program.
- Providing 2nd line oversight to incident management, including remediation, action planning, and advising on improving control effectiveness and implementing new controls.
- Oversight of all risk types, the identification and management of emerging threats, and assisting in the investigation of material incidents.
- Coordinating the preparation and lodgement of regulatory and industry returns.
- Key Contributor of risk reporting to management, the Board, and regulators.
- Supporting organisational compliance with APRA prudential standards.
- Maintenance of internal policies, procedures, systems and registers that support the Bank’s Risk & Compliance framework.
- Providing ongoing project support to both the Head of Compliance and Chief Risk Officer.

**Skills and Experiences**:
About you.

You will have at least 5 years’ relevant experience in financial services with a focus on risk controls assurance. You possess a good understanding of the banking & financial services regulatory environment, in addition to Tertiary qualifications in Law, Finance or Compliance.

You are a passionate risk and compliance professional with high attention to detail, who is comfortable working within a busy risk and compliance team. You will utilise your problem solving skills to overcome challenges. Your energy, commitment and level-headed approach ensures you thrive in this dynamic environment.
- Building relationships and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Developing and conducting monitoring & testing activities.
- Preparing data and reports.
- Analysing potentially complex situations and identifying workable solutions in response.
- Utilising contemporary risk & compliance frameworks in practice.
- Working autonomously.
- Self-managing your work to achieve deadlines.

We count on you. And you can count on us.

**We have a great range of employee benefits including**:

- Corporate wardrobe allowance.
- Ongoing professional development opportunities.
- Savings and discounts across our range of products and services.
- A "Thank you" day - each year our employees receive one additional day of paid leave.
- Access to our internal "reward and recognition" platform - vouchers, discounts, e-cards and much more

Interested? We'd like to hear from you. Click to apply.