Risk, Audit And Compliance Manager

About Us:
Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture defined by _The Gallagher Way_, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 40,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures.

At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it's with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team.

Overview:
Gallagher Bassett (GB) is Australia's largest Third-Party Administrator (TPA). Our focus is refreshingly simple: we manage insurance claims on behalf of insurers, brokers, government bodies and self-insured corporations. GB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gallagher, a global organisation employing over 33,000 employees.

GB has six offices in Australia located in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Northern Territory, Adelaide and Perth employing over 1200 staff.

**Responsibilities**:
Due to an exciting phase of transformation and expansion, a new opportunity exists in Sydney for a Risk, Audit and Compliance Manager to join Gallagher Bassett's Risk, Audit and Compliance team.

The team are responsible for the development and maintenance of all GB's risk frameworks as well as overseeing all risk management activity, compliance activity (regulatory and contractually) and audit activity, both internal and external. Their vision is to be a valued business partner enabling GB to balance risk and reward, in making well-informed decisions, leading to superior strategic outcomes.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Provide advice on the design, implementation and ongoing monitoring and maintenance of compliance and risk frameworks, policies, procedures and supporting controls, ensuring that business activities remain within the defined risk appetite;
- Monitor and report on the management of breaches, incidents and issues, key and emerging risks, controls assurance and regulatory change;
- Support the development, execution and monitoring of remedial activity for incidents, provide advice/support on root cause analysis;
- Facilitate risk assessment workshops as an SME;
- Manage the annual audit calendar, and ensure that all Client-Based audit requirements are assigned relevant timeframes; including scheduling, scoping and providing oversight for all fieldwork and management action plans;
- Embed data analytics in audit and assurance activity;
- Design and lead deep dive reviews into emerging risk areas;
- Build strong working relationships as a key liaison with clients, external auditors, senior leadership team and risk governing bodies;
- Conduct performance counselling and development with team.

Qualifications:

- Tertiary qualification in an appropriate discipline (such as Law or Accounting);
- Minimum 7 years' experience in Insurance and/or financial services, including minimum 2 years in a management role;
- Experience in having dealt with an insurance and/or financial services regulatory environment;
- Comprehensive understanding of risk management and compliance practices in an insurance or financial services environment, including demonstrated working knowledge of relevant acts, code of practice and/or legislative requirements;
- Demonstrated experience in managing people and delivering outstanding results;
- Demonstrated ability to deliver well written, succinct, and comprehensive reports within agreed timeframes;
- Experience in managing both external and internal audits;
- Demonstrated ability to manage and build rapport with key internal and external stakeholders;
- Customer-focused attitude, with the ability to think outside the square;
- Strong time management and organisational skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
- The ability to be self-motivated with strong initiative skills.