Senior Risk and Compliance Specialist
- Provide risk and compliance advice, support, and assurance to business units within the MLC Expand Wrap Business Line.
- Assess risks, obligations, and controls, including testing control effectiveness and supporting incidents, breaches, and issues.
- Strengthen risk and compliance practices through governance forums, stakeholder engagement, and culture improvement.
The opportunity to join our team
Reporting to the Head of Risk and Compliance (Wrap), this role is responsible for partnering with one or more business units within the MLC Expand Wrap Business Line, to provide quality and timely risk and compliance services. This role supports the Wrap Platforms business in ensuring they manage their key risks and compliance obligations, thereby protecting the client and member outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive, coordinate and support in the provision of business aligned quality and timely risk and compliance services within the Wrap Business Line.
- Provide insights into emerging risks and areas for improvement.
- Provide risk, control and compliance advice and guidance.
- Provide 1st Line risk and compliance support on incidents, breaches and issues.
- Facilitate the identification and assessment of risks and controls against business objectives and core processes, including facilitating regular reviews and updates.
- Facilitate the understanding of, and adherence to, obligations aligned to processes. Support obligation owners in determining whether appropriate controls exist to manage compliance.
- Perform testing of the design and operating effectiveness of key risk and obligation related controls, and other 1st line assurance activities as required.
- Chair forums, working groups, committees as required, including supporting the effective management of these governance forums.
- Proactively embed and improve risk and compliance culture across the Wrap Business Line.
- Provide input into the drafting and review of risk and compliance matters for forums, committees, boards and other governance forums.
What you will bring
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field required (Business, Finance or Law related discipline).
- 5+ years risk / compliance experience ideally within financial services.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring other team members is an advantage.
- Sound knowledge of risk management concepts, frameworks, and standards.
- Strong understanding of the Australian regulatory landscape.
- Change management experience in relation to risk and compliance frameworks is highly desirable.
- Advanced ability to research, interpret and advise on complex risk and compliance requirements and scenarios.
- Strong business engagement skills and ability to influence and build trusted relationships.
- Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communications (including the ability to draft and review board level papers).
- Ability to operate effectively with the ambiguity associated with a large, complex and dynamic business.
To Apply
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