Risk Advisory Manager

About US
Are you looking for a high-performing, award-winning team to join? Look no further than UniSuper. Our focus on creating great retirement outcomes for our members has earned us recognition for our excellence and high performance. Come be a part of our inclusive, passionate team and make a difference with UniSuper.

You will be empowered to grow your career and contribute from day one in an organisation that supports your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

The opportunity
The Risk and Legal team is rapidly progressing in its quest to build best in class risk management capability within UniSuper. As part of this journey, we are uplifting our focus from "process of risk management" to advising the business on managing risks.
You, as a part of the Risk & Legal team, will help shape, influence, and challenge the way our business teams think about risk and enable the implementation of our numerous risk and compliance frameworks. The role will interface with several business units to provide Line 2 assurance and oversight to these businesses.
On a day-to-day basis you will work closely with the Enterprise Risk team, the Internal Audit function, and the line 1 functions you partner with.

Your key objectives will include:

• Oversight, challenge and subject matter expertise to a range of line 1 risk and assurance activities including (but not limited to) risk management, control assurance, incident management, audit finding reviews, risk culture and emerging risks.
• Ensuring the quality of risk discussions is of sufficient standard and influence appropriately when this is not the case.
• Ensuring that risk and assurance change programs (e.g. regulatory change, system implementation, risk policies, etc.) are designed in a way that ensures the desired behaviours are embedded into the operating rhythm and practices of the business.
• Providing input into the design of risk and assurance policies and frameworks, ensuring that they are fit for purpose and easy to implement.
• Providing oversight and challenge of major projects and BAU changes your business units are responsible for delivering to ensure risk is being appropriately considered, assessed and reported.
• Providing independent insight into business risks, identifying where they are not being managed within appetite, while elevating risk insights by overseeing data quality, contributing to executive and board-level reporting, and collaborating with the business to surface emerging risks.
• Acting as a key liaison in the delivery of training, education and support, ensuring a consistent and efficient engagement model between the business and specialist teams within Risk and Legal.
• Working with the Operational Risk team in Risk & Legal, you will provide input into the preparation of relevant reporting for key governance forums.

About you
In this exciting new role, you will be an integral part of the transformative journey that shapes how we deliver exceptional customer experiences and where our customers need us most. For this reason, we are looking for someone who has experience working in a fast-moving transformation environment and is comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity.

Furthermore, you will have:

• Extensive professional experience in compliance, operational risk, and audit roles, ideally within financial services or other highly regulated environments.
• Previous experience in business partnering or stakeholder management is essential, preferably in superannuation or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influence appropriately when required.
• Experience partnering with marketing and growth teams to ensure risk and compliance considerations are embedded in campaigns, member engagement strategies, and digital product development.
• Understanding of how to translate regulatory and legislative requirements and risk management frameworks into actions and activities that result in positive change that adds value to the business. Some experience in project risk management preferred.
• Ability to balance commercial and strategic objectives with risk management, enabling safe and sustainable business growth.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exposure to Marketing or Distribution, Digital or PDS compliance would be preferred.
• Risk, Compliance, and Audit qualifications and/or relevant accreditations are preferred.

We believe that the best way to achieve great things is when we come together and collaborate. Therefore, we ask you to be able to commit to 60% of your time in office.

UniSuper's high performance culture is supported by a range of benefits that demonstrates our commitment to ensuring our employees achieve their full potential, thrive, and grow their career with us. These include:

• A personal development budget of $1500 to support employees in their professional growth
• Exceptional parental leave to support employees in balancing their work and family responsibilities
• Mental, physical and financial well-being initiatives
   

At UniSuper, we value and celebrate diversity and inclusion in our workplace, where everybody can thrive. We believe that having a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, interests, abilities, and skills is crucial for delivering great retirement outcomes for our members. We invite you to apply for the roles that suit your career aspirations, even if you don't meet all the requirements listed.

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