Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance Frameworks

ASX; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ASX seeks a senior professional to lead Enterprise Risk & Compliance initiatives, shaping risk culture and governance across the organisation. You will drive the framework, policies and reporting to support strategic decisions in a complex financial services environment.

The role requires extensive experience in risk and regulatory matters, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to influence at board and committee levels, while fostering an inclusive and high-performing risk culture.

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (risk/compliance, law, finance, economics, or related).
• 7+ years in risk management and/or regulatory compliance within complex financial services organisations.
• Senior expertise in risk concepts, frameworks, and tools with ability to manage enterprise non-financial risks.
• 7+ years Risk & Compliance capability advising across risk management, financial markets, projects, and regulatory remediation.
• Ability to clearly articulate risk & compliance matters to influence risk culture and behaviour.
• Experience engaging with division and enterprise-level committees and governance forums.
• Facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills with cross-stakeholder credibility.
• Experience improving operational risk environments and culture.

Responsibilities

• Turn strategy into practical direction across the business. Bring external thinking and challenge current approaches to improve outcomes.
• Focus on priorities, take responsibility for delivery, and address risks early.
• Support others to do their best work, coach informally, foster an inclusive environment.
• Build strong relationships and influence outcomes through credibility and collaboration.
• Strengthen governance and risk culture through everyday influence and accountability.
• Develop and maintain risk and compliance policies and procedures across ERMF.
• Analyse and report on the effectiveness of the ERMF including compliance.
• Implement and integrate the Compliance Management Framework from regulatory change to execution.
• Monitor the Risk Appetite Statement and mitigating actions.
• Assess and monitor the Group Risk Profile across L1/L2 non-financial risks.
• Support board and committee reporting with insights and recommendations.
• Deliver enterprise-level monitoring across risk and compliance policies.

Skills

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualification in risk/compliance/law/finance/economics

Job description

ASX: Powering Australia’s financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

The Enterprise Risk and Compliance team sits within the 2nd Line Risk division, with accountability for all Risk and Compliance activity across ASX. The Risk and Compliance Advisory team operates as a second-line function, responsible for the design and maintenance of Enterprise Risk Management Frameworks and Policies (including Compliance), Risk Culture, Policy Governance, Risk Capability and Accountability Frameworks to Industry and regulatory best practice standards with particular emphasis reflecting ASX’s role as a steward of Critical Market Infrastructure.

Your responsibilities As a key influencer across ASX, driving the Risk and Compliance Frameworks agenda, you will be responsible for demonstrating senior leadership capability through influence and challenge, this will include:

• Help turn strategy into clear, practical direction. Look across the business, bring in external thinking, and question current approaches to help identify better ways of working and improved outcomes.
• Focus effort on what matters most and follow through. Support clear priorities, take responsibility for your part of delivery, and step in early to resolve issues or risks that could affect outcomes.
• Support others to do their best work. Share expertise, coach informally, and contribute to an inclusive and safe environment where people feel confident to speak up, learn and make decisions.
• Build strong, trusted working relationships. Work openly and collaboratively, listen to different perspectives, and influence outcomes through credibility and constructive challenge rather than authority.
• Strengthen governance and risk culture through everyday influence. Contribute to clear ways of working that support effective risk and compliance outcomes, and role-model good risk awareness and accountability across the Risk function and with Line 1.

Role specific

• Support the continuous improvement of the risk and compliance maturity through the implementation of the risk and compliance frameworks including Risk Culture and Code of Conduct supported by best practice governance standards.
• Support the development and maintenance of key risk and compliance policies and procedures that support the ASX Enterprise Risk Management Framework, including associated training and change management to foster a strong risk culture and effective maturity of the Framework.
• Perform analysis, develop insights to action and reporting on the effectiveness of the ERMF including compliance.
• Support the effective implementation and integration of the Compliance Management Framework from Regulatory change through to monitoring its implementation in the business
• Measure and monitor the Risk Appetite Statement and the mitigating actions.
• Support the assessment of the ASX Group Risk Profile of all L1 and L2 non-financial risks. Including the assessment, monitoring and continuous improvement of the Line 2 owned risk classes.
• Support the Board and Committee reporting process for the risk and compliance related Enterprise reporting, provide valuable insights, thematics and recommendations.
• Deliver Enterprise level monitoring activities across relevant Risk and Compliance policies and procedures.

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. risk management, compliance, law, finance, economics, or a related field).
• 7+ years experience in risk management and/or regulatory compliance, including the ongoing uplift of the design and execution of enterprise risk strategies within complex, matrixed financial services organisations.
• Senior expertise in risk management concepts, frameworks, and tools, with a proven ability to identify, assess and manage key nonfinancial risks across an enterprise environment.
• 7+ years Risk and Compliance capability, with demonstrated experience providing advice, insight and challenge across risk management, financial markets, largescale project delivery, and regulatory remediation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate risk and compliance matters to positively influence risk culture and behaviours.
• Experience engaging with and managing Division and Enterprise level committees, working group and governance forums, including the ability to engage discussion, outcomes and support informed decision making.
• Facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills, developed trusted and collaborative relationships across stakeholder groups, subject matter experts, and leaders.
• Experience improving Operational Risk environments and culture.

Nice to have

• Legal expertise in financial or similar Industry
• Experience in large scale Enterprise-wide risk transformations.
• Experience in different elements of the 3 lines of defence and with different elements of the ERMF including compliance

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.