Automation-Driven Risk & Compliance Lead

Telstra Corporation; Australia; Sur place; AUD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Performance-related pay

Learning programs access

Global presence

Purchased annual leave scheme

Telstra day off

Discount on Telstra products

Telstra toolkit provided

Résumé du poste

Telstra is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Specialist in Australia to lead a forward-looking assurance program. You will shape strategy, drive annual planning, and guide business functions on execution, with a focus on automation and AI to streamline controls and improve outcomes.

You will work within Telstra's Compliance and Assurance COE, collaborating with risk and compliance teams to translate findings into actionable uplift actions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent business experience in risk, compliance, assurance, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of audit, operational risk, compliance, and assurance frameworks, including control design, operating effectiveness, evidence-based review, and risk-based planning.
• Understanding of technology risk in a large enterprise environment, with ability to translate complex technical issues into business impacts, mitigation strategies, and practical actions.
• Ability to use assurance and compliance data to identify exceptions, trends, recurring issues, and leading indicators that inform risk-based decisions.
• Practical understanding of how automation, analytics and AI can simplify assurance, improve quality, and reduce manual effort.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate, advise, constructively challenge, and deliver executive-ready insights.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and sequence work, engage stakeholders, and deliver quality outcomes within tight timelines in a complex and changing environment.
• Growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement through simplification, standardisation, and measurable operational uplift.

Responsabilités

• Assurance strategy and agenda: Define how assurance should operate across Telstra, including framework review, methodology, standards, guidance and reusable artefacts.
• Annual assurance planning: Assess risk, compliance priorities, control maturity, historical findings and assurance coverage to focus effort.
• Execution guidance: Guide business functions on how to execute assurance consistently and proportionately, including planning and evidence expectations.
• Targeted assurance support: Deliver or support targeted assurance activity with specialist input or independent review as needed.
• Operational excellence uplift: Review end-to-end assurance and compliance workflows to simplify processes and improve data quality.
• Manual to automated: Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing, automate checks, and streamline evidence capture.
• Reactive to predictive: Use assurance data and trends to move from retrospective review to earlier detection.
• Stakeholder influence: Partner with risk and compliance teams to translate outcomes into uplift actions.
• AI and technology enablement: Engage with automation, analytics and AI tools to accelerate assurance.

Connaissances

Risk & compliance

Audit knowledge

Operational risk

Stakeholder management

Technology risk

Automation/AI in assurance

Communication skills

Prioritisation

Continuous improvement

Formation

Tertiary qualifications

Description du poste

Telstra is seeking a Senior Risk & Compliance Specialist in Australia to lead a forward-looking assurance program. You will shape strategy, drive annual planning, and guide business functions on execution, with a focus on automation and AI to streamline controls and improve outcomes.

You will work within Telstra's Compliance and Assurance COE, collaborating with risk and compliance teams to translate findings into actionable uplift actions across the organization.