Risk & Assurance Advisor (Hybrid, 12-Month Contract)

REA Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Flexible leave options including, but

Birthday leave

Flexible parental leave

Because We Care volunteering leave

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group invites a Risk & Assurance Advisor to strengthen risk culture within a fast-moving digital business. The role sits in Global Risk & Assurance and collaborates with Legal, Privacy, Security, Compliance, and Internal Audit to support risk oversight and governance.

You will work across Customer & Consumer and Product teams to implement the REA Risk Management Framework, uplift risk culture, and provide practical risk guidance for strategic initiatives and changes.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years’ experience in an Operational Risk, Compliance, Audit, Assurance or related role.
• Experience in technology risk management, audit, compliance reviews or understanding of product development is desirable.
• Experience in risk profile, change-risk or compliance reviews, including controls testing, highly valuable.
• Experience with customer, privacy, data, AI risk will be favourably regarded.
• Strong business and report writing skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise delivery across own workload and team priorities.
• Ability to build trusted relationships while remaining practical and commercially aware.

Responsibilities

• Assist Head of Risk and business leaders to implement the REA Risk Management Framework across portfolios.
• Provide practical risk and compliance advice and facilitate risk workshops to identify and report risks.
• Support risk assessments for strategic initiatives, projects, products, suppliers and changes, including data/AI-related change.
• Assist partner businesses with Change Risk Assessments and develop controls and treatment plans.
• Maintain Business Unit Risk Profile with obligations, controls, KRIs and treatment plans.
• Identify, assess, manage and escalate risks, issues, events, near misses and incidents.
• Analyze and report key information for leadership and risk governance forums.
• Ensure risks, issues and audit actions are discussed, addressed and escalated timely.

Skills

Operational risk

Compliance

Audit

Stakeholder communication

Risk reporting

Change management

Tech risk awareness

Product development awareness

Job description

REA Group invites a Risk & Assurance Advisor to strengthen risk culture within a fast-moving digital business. The role sits in Global Risk & Assurance and collaborates with Legal, Privacy, Security, Compliance, and Internal Audit to support risk oversight and governance.

You will work across Customer & Consumer and Product teams to implement the REA Risk Management Framework, uplift risk culture, and provide practical risk guidance for strategic initiatives and changes.