Senior Manager, Compliance Risk

4 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia RABOBANK Full time

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.  

Our culture is focused on growing each other. We strive to create an open, balanced, and flexible workplace where people feel that they belong, can be open and honest and are supported.

Rabobank Australia has recently been awarded 18th place in LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2023: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Australia. We are extremely proud of this achievement, as it reflects the investment in our people, their growth and development.

About the role

The Risk Champion assists with the provision of risk expertise within the Compliance business unit. The role is to ensure the application of the Region Australia & New Zealand Risk Management Framework (RMF). It facilitates the incorporation of all aspects of the RMF (including Operational Risk and Compliance) into day-to-day activities of the Compliance function.

The role also provides a key organisational function in assisting to drive and coordinate compliance risk management activities across the division risk champion network, including maintaining the framework for the maintenance and management of the bank’s obligations register and assisting Line 1 to understand and implement changes to the compliance management framework.

Some of the Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:

  • Drive and facilitate the risk and control assessment processes across the Australia and New Zealand Compliance teams, in line with Rabobank global requirements and the Risk Management Framework.
  • Develop and maintain the framework for management of the bank’s obligations register, including providing guidance to Line 1 on how to manage and maintain their obligations.
  • Facilitate the periodic review and attestation by each division of their respective obligations register component.
  • Track and monitor Compliance-owned obligations, controls, incidents, and findings to drive appropriate management and remediation, where required.
  • Conduct risk assessments, deep dives, root cause analysis, lessons learned for Compliance-owned risks, controls, findings, and incidents.
  • Prepare and present reporting to the Compliance Leadership Team on the risk and control environment of the Compliance function.

To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Bachelor's Degree or international equivalent (preference for financial, business, economics, or other related undergraduate degree).
  • Experience in financial services industry with focus on controls, auditing, compliance, or process engineering is considered essential.
  • Knowledge of project management disciplines highly regarded.
  • An understanding of how compliance obligations operate.
  • An understanding of Risk Management within the financial services industry and related regulatory standards (Basel II and APRA Prudential Standards).
  • Experience in managing risk, evaluating risk, and reviewing risk.
  • Experience managing stakeholders and have experience dealing with senior management and business and commercial teams.

Our Values, Vision, and Mission

Rabobank Australia fully embraces inclusion and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here. We are committed to our values; we are client focussed, action oriented, purposeful, and courageous in our work.  We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning.   We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are.

What we're proud to offer you:

  • Rabo@Anywhere is our hybrid way of working at Rabobank and for Australia, that means we have a blend of time working between the office and home.
  • Wellbeing leave. These 2 extra leave days support greater work/life balance and is just another way we are helping our employees to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
  • Education Assistance Program. Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development.
  • Parental Leave that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (Primary carer up-to 14 weeks paid leave)
  • Bonus and Additional Leave. We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough At Rabobank we provide an incentive for eligible employees to receive 1 extra week Annual Leave and an option to purchase another 2 weeks Annual Leave.
  • Extra Insurance. Rabobank recognises that employees need to protect their financial wellbeing, in the event of serious illness, injury, or even death. Rabobank provides eligible permanent employees with employer-funded Death, TPD and Income Protection Insurance.
  • Rabo Workplace Giving program. As part of Rabobank's global Corporate Social Responsibility, Workplace Giving aims to encourage employees to contribute to our community. Rabo Workplace Giving program matches employee donations to selected Social Partners.

Rabobank is committed to a culture where diversity and inclusion is valued, respected, and encouraged. We welcome applicants from diverse cultures, faith, and sexual orientation.

If you’d like to discuss how we can make our opportunities more accessible to you, please let a member of the Talent Acquisition team know.

Rabobank is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.

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