Manager, Business Risk Advisory

• A great opportunity to work with one of Australia's largest general insurers
• Open to Sydney candidates only - Hybrid Opportunity
• Do you have end to end risk management experience?

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and one of Australia's largest general insurers Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle and pet, in proud partnership with some of Australia's biggest consumer brands and broker businesses. As an independent and privately owned company, we believe we can go further together – for our people, customers, communities and partners – through an innovative approach to providing insurance.

Our state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney reflect our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work.

Your Team

The Risk and Control Advisory (RCA) team are valued and trusted business partners supporting Hollard (Line 1) Business Functions to embed our enterprise risk policies and frameworks into all aspects of their business operations. The RCA team provides group-wide cross-functional risk and control advisory and assurance services to enhance organisational risk and resilience maturity, capability and culture to support us in achieving our strategic goals, enhance the customer experience and mitigate the risk of regulatory intervention. The team is also responsible for establishing the policy for our enterprise continuity standards and provides critical enterprise support in delivering these standards.

Your Role

This role provides direct business partnering and risk advisory services to the Operations Function teams. You will serve as the primary embedded risk advisor, working closely with Operations teams to provide pragmatic guidance on risk identification, evaluation, and mitigation strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary embedded risk advisor for the Operations Function teams, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders
• Provide pragmatic risk advisory services to Operations Leadership Team on risk identification, evaluation, mitigation, and escalation
• Lead the development and maintenance of the Operations functional risk profile
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments including Risk in Change – Delivered Risk Assessments, Partner/Suppliers risk assessments, and Uncapped indemnities
• Partner with Operations teams to ensure proactive assessment and documentation of risks associated with projects (non EPMO) and change initiatives
• Provide targeted training and guidance to Operations teams to enhance risk capability and knowledge

About You

• Demonstrated experience in in Risk Management and/or Control Assurance within the financial services industry, General Insurance industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge of risk strategies and frameworks used within the Australian financial services industry
• Good knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements applicable to the Australian financial services industry
• Experience in business partnering or advisory roles, highly regarded
• Experience in risk assessment methodologies and frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and build relationships with business stakeholders

Working at Hollard

At Hollard, you'll discover an environment where you can truly make an impact. We offer the best of both worlds – the opportunity, agility and creativity of a company growing with scale, alongside a focus on becoming a catalyst for enduring, positive, social change.

We're a tight-knit team, where authentic voices and unique perspectives matter. We work supportively, collaboratively and inclusively to help shape our future and create shared value for our communities.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance. We're also unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion.  We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences, including as it relates to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity.

We're building something special. Working closely with our industry partners to reshape insurance for the better, we're people changing insurance.

Please note:

Even if you don't meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

A full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

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We are NOT engaging Recruitment Agencies for this role and ask agencies to respect our policy of no unsolicited contact regarding advertised vacancies.