Risk and Assurance Manager

Department:
Finance

Location:
Sydney (Australia)

Description
We're on a mission to be a Force For Good, through our People, Products and Purpose at Nuix.

This extends to our People. We're fiercely passionate, love working at pace, thrive in ambiguity, live, and breathe outside of the box, and above all are good humans. We're determined to make a positive difference in the world, whether through our solutions which help the top companies, governments and agencies find the truth and combat illegal activities, or through our people who care about contributing and giving back both within, and outside, of Nuix. We are a Force For Good.

We're selective about who comes on board, and you should be too. But if the above sounds like a match, get in touch today and get ready for the possibility of starting a once-in-a-career journey.

Role Overview:
The role is focused on developing and maintaining enterprise risk management frameworks, developing and providing assurance oversight with responsibility for the group insurance program.

The role involves building risk management culture, maintaining organizational risk registers, conducting assurance reviews, managing business continuity planning, and coordinating insurance renewals. The ideal candidate needs experience in risk/assurance functions and the ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders across a technology/software development company.

This position will be based in our Sydney office. The candidate is required to attend the office a minimum of 3
days per week but may voluntarily elect to work either remotely or from the Sydney office for the remaining days of the week.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed and enhance a culture of risk management.
• Further develop the Enterprise risk management framework. Provide awareness and education of the framework to all staff
• Analyse the environment, discover, assess and supervise risks assist in developing controls and mitigation plans, and oversee their implementation
• Work with the business to maintain an organizational risk register of identified risks, their current status and prioritize remediation and provide regular updates/reports for relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a strong rapport with relevant Business and Functional leaders and teams to facilitate two-way interaction in relation to risk, governance and compliance.
• Conduct appropriate analysis on root causes and trends and assist the business identify control improvements.
• Undertake systematic challenge, review and validation of the effectiveness of controls in place for the business team's management of risk, including recommending improvements where warranted. Coordinate second line risk reporting covering insights and risk indicators for various committees.
• Own the Business Continuity Management efforts and maintenance of Key Risk Indicators for the functional teams and contribute to the risk and compliance awareness activities.
• Provide Risk Management Input to key business initiatives and committees e.g. AI Governance, WHS, Cyber and Privacy
• Provide support to the operations and the business in key risk areas.

Privacy & Compliance

• Set standards and review policies and procedures globally to ensure Nuix meets the requirements under applicable laws and any localization requirements in countries of operation.
• Liaise closely with the legal compliance program and data privacy requirements.

Assurance

• Develop and maintain an assurance framework for key risk and compliance programs.
• Conduct specific risk and compliance assurance reviews

Insurance

• Coordinate the annual insurance renewal process including collection of data and completion of various documentation.
• Liaise with the insurance broker to address one-off business requirements e.g. certificates of currency, one-off insurance requirements

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience within a compliance, legal, audit and/or risk function, with recent experience in privacy compliance, with a preference for experience with software development company or companies.
• Comprehensive risk management experience
• Sufficient knowledge of information technology and data management systems
• Strong change and project management skills, including the ability to manage time well, prioritise effectively, handle multiple deadlines and deliver projects.
• Track record of driving efficient and effective operational processes.
• Detail-oriented approach needed to recommend and implement strategic improvements on a range of compliance and risk issues.
• Experience in developing policy and compliance training.
• Knowledge of Australian, USA, and EU data privacy and data protection regulation, and a good understanding of other major privacy frameworks and evolving legislation worldwide.

Skills and Characteristics
:

• Experience within a risk function ideally including assurance with a preference for experience in technology and/or software development
• Experience in the development of 3 lines of defence models
• Knowledge relating to companywide insurance programs.
• Someone who is not afraid of rolling up their sleeves to build and showcase their function.
• Effective at influencing across the organization including senior business leaders
• Strong ownership, initiative and ability to work independently.
• Proven ability to collaborate in a matrixed environment and across multiple time-zones.
• Ability to influence, negotiate, guide, and work with cross-functional teams to achieve joint objectives.
• Demonstrated problem solving ability and attention to detail to deliver high quality output.
• Strong analytical capability and demonstrated ability to manage high volumes of detailed information.

We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone. Please reach out to

if you need any accommodations throughout the interview process.

Nuix is an equal opportunities employer. Don't let imposter syndrome hold you back We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer.

ABOUT US:
Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities. To find out more about who we are and what we are doing, please visit our web page.

As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values.

Nuix Vision
Finding Truth in a Digital World.

Nuix Mission Statement
Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.

Nuix Values

• TAKEOWNERSHIP
  AND FOLLOW UP
• RESILIENT
  WE LEARN FROM THE PAST AND ARE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TOMORROW
• UNAFRAID
  TO DO THE RIGHT THING, QUICKLY
• TEAM NUIX
  FIRST AND FOREMOST
• HERO OUR CUSTOMERS
  AND INNOVATE FOR THEM

We believe in these principles and seek to weave them into the fabric of our daily work at Nuix. In doing so, we co-create a dynamic and purposeful company culture that we can be proud of and want to belong to.