Senior Risk Specialist

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Product & Services Risk team as a Senior Risk Specialist. If you're a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, we'd love you to apply.
Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About The Role
We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. We are seeking a proactive and experienced risk professional to support our Product and Service (P&S) team in embedding and maintaining robust risk and incident management practices aligned with the ART Group Risk Management Framework (RMF). This role is pivotal in ensuring operational compliance, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a strong risk culture across the business.

Day To Day, You'll

• Champion the application of the ART RMF and incident management policies within P&S, ensuring clear understanding of roles and responsibilities.
• Align business unit risk activities with enterprise risk appetite, supporting risk identification, analysis, and mitigation.
• Lead and support the resolution of risk issues, breaches, and incidents, including root cause analysis and control improvements.
• Own and manage Corporate Risk Scorecard metrics and incident screening processes to ensure accurate reporting and resolution.
• Monitor compliance with legislation, standards, and audit requirements, and coordinate audit responses and remediation plans.
• Provide risk and control advice for technology, process changes, and strategic initiatives.
• Act as liaison between Group Risk, Compliance, and P&S, ensuring effective representation in forums and assurance programs.
• Drive cross-functional engagement for incident resolution and prepare executive-level briefings and documentation.
• Support team operations by tracking deliverables, mentoring peers, and acting as escalation point for complex issues.
• Promote a positive risk culture and deliver training to uplift team capability in risk and incident management.

We have permanent opportunities available.

About You
It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• A genuine passion for and interest in business improvement, compliance, incident management, internal control and risk management.
• Demonstrable experience in a risk or compliance-based role
• Demonstrated experience in risk-based decision making
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively engage and develop positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including leaders, auditors and front-line staff.
• An ability to work independently with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Demonstrated experience in determining, undertaking and tracking the progress of remediation actions and plans in order to address control gaps and improve the management of risks.
• Proven ability to treat sensitive information in a private and confidential manner and to exercise tact and sound judgement in communicating with others regarding sensitive matters.
• Demonstrated experience in the design, documentation and management of compliance, risk and controls frameworks for service channels.
• An ability to explain complex concepts and matters in writing and verbally in a manner which enables the audience to understand the key points and effectively conveys the intended message.
• Demonstrated ability to assist Managers and Team Leaders to balance workloads and focus across competing priorities and stakeholders across the broader team

About Us
Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now
Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now.
Applications close Sunday, 19th October 2025.
We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.