Risk Manager

HKA; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote working

Inclusive culture

Job summary

HKA is seeking a senior risk management professional to oversee risk frameworks on major infrastructure programmes in Australia. You will lead a team of project controls professionals, coordinate threat assessment and mitigation, and support data-driven decision making across client projects.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, budget/schedule risk insight and experience with quantitative risk analysis tools and dashboards. Flexible remote options available in Australia.

Qualifications

• Experience leading risk teams on large infrastructure projects.
• Strong grasp of risk management principles and decision support.
• Ability to communicate complex risk insights to stakeholders.
• Proven track record using risk analysis tools and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day management of risk frameworks and lead a project controls team.
• Identify, assess and prioritise threats, opportunities, and issues.
• Support risk-based decision making and development of mitigation strategies.
• Perform quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses and report findings.

Skills

Risk management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

ARM

@Risk

PRA

Safran

Tableau

PowerBI

Excel

Job description

HKA is a leading infrastructure project, strategy, commercial advisory and dispute resolution company. We provide advisory and transformation services to major infrastructure clients and large asset businesses to help them achieve their goals through strategic and operational excellence.

Our Advisory team is an agile group that works with clients to set up their portfolios, programmes and projects for success. We thrive on supporting clients with their most complex challenges and opportunities that are varied and interesting. We have a compelling track record of providing practical, pragmatic solutions and partnering with our clients to implement strategic change.

As Part Of The HKA Team You Can Expect

• To develop your career working across a variety of exciting, complex projects, with both public and private sector clients.
• Flexible work arrangements that help you achieve life balance.
• An inclusive and collaborative culture that will providethe bestopportunities to help you thrive in your chosen career path.

The Opportunity

• Oversee day to day management, development and implementation of Risk management frameworks, applying best practice in risk management processes, while leading a team of project controls professionals
• Facilitate identification, assessment and prioritisation of threats, opportunities, and issues.
• Support teams in the adoption of risk-based decision making, analysis and problem solving, the development of treatment strategies to minimise risk exposure, as well as liaising with contractors, clients, and other relevant personnel
• Perform quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses using quantitative risk modelling software to inform and track against contingency budgets, report the outputs, and communicating findings to relevant stakeholders.

Skills And Experience

This role is integral for our current and upcoming projects, so it’s important that you have experience minimising budgetary and schedule risk. It is also imperative that you have optimal stakeholder management and communication skills.

We Welcome Applications From Candidates With The Following Attributes

• Proven experience managing and motivating risk teams on major infrastructure projects.
• Proficient in risk management principles, practice, and analysis within the context of major infrastructure projects, and how risk management influences project success throughout the project development and delivery lifecycle.
• Confidence to manage a risk management consultancy project, with people managing skills and the confidence to lead a project team.
• Commercial and financial awareness related to infrastructure and consultancy project delivery.
• Skilled in the field of Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis and Quantitative Schedule Risk analysis techniques,
• High capability when using Microsoft Excel, and relevant risk management software (such as ARM, @Risk, PRA, Safran).
• Experience of developing project and risk management information reports and dashboards, and awareness of associated tools (such as Tableau, PowerBI).
• Demonstrated organisational skills and experience working within a high-volume professional environment, managing multiple competing priorities.

What We Offer

At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success. Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path.

We operate a flexible working pattern both in terms of hours and location and are happy with flexible remote working.

Our Global Recruitment team is committed to providing an authentic candidate experience for all those who take the time to apply to HKA. We are committed to providing an efficient and insightful recruitment process giving candidates a true reflection of life at HKA. We are committed to responding to all applicants who apply by the closing date.

CLOSING DATE: 25 October 2026.

ED&I At HKA

HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees. We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for further information.

All HKA employment decisions are firstly made on merit and shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or anyother basis in compliance with local legislation.

HKA is one of the world’s leading consultancy of choice for multi-disciplinary expert and specialist services in risk mitigation and dispute resolution within the capital projects and infrastructure sector.

We also have experience advising clients on the economic impact of commercial and investment treaty disputes and in forensic accounting matters.

As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide.