Senior Manager Risk Enablement

Hollard Insurance Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote work options

Work-family balance

Job summary

Hollard Insurance Australia in Sydney seeks a Senior Manager, Risk Enablement to uplift risk maturity across the enterprise by embedding practical risk management practices and collaborating with key stakeholders.

You will lead change initiatives, training and templates to embed risk across processes, strengthen the three lines of defence and foster a proactive risk culture. Flexible hybrid work is available and based in Sydney.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in risk management and risk enablement within an APRA-regulated institution.
• Demonstrated ability embedding risk frameworks and driving cultural change.
• Strong understanding of APRA CPS 230/ CPS 220 and the three lines of accountability.
• Exceptional influencing and stakeholder management with senior leaders.
• People leadership experience in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Drive embedded risk management practices across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage change in risk frameworks and training.
• Lead activities to uplift risk culture in line with Board and Executive.
• Design and embed risk in change processes and templates.
• Ensure lines of defence understand roles and responsibilities.
• Deliver risk training and communications across all lines.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

APRA CPS knowledge

Job description

• Lead role to embed risk culture across the enterprise
• Flexible hybrid work-from-home arrangement based in Sydney
• Work with one of Australia’s largest general insurers

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle and pet, in proud partnership with some of Australia's biggest consumer brands and broker businesses. As an independent and privately owned company, we believe we can go further together – for our people, customers, communities and partners – through an innovative approach to providing insurance.

Our state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney reflect our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work.

About the Role

As Senior Manager, Risk Enablement, you will be a vital member of a small team, empowered to support upliftment in the maturity of risk management and risk culture across Hollard by embedding practical, sustainable risk management practices, and working constructively and collaboratively with key stakeholders across all lines of accountability

Your duties and responsibilities

• Drive embedded risk management practices where risk frameworks, policies are well understood and consistently applied at all levels to identify, assess and respond proactively by understanding why this is important as part of their role
• Work with stakeholders to manage change in relation to core components of the Risk Management Framework including communication, training, change management and ongoing embedment activities
• Lead on activities that drive risk culture uplift working to support the desired risk culture articulated by the Board and Executive
• Design, implement and embedment of risk in change, ways of working and templates working to refine existing change processes to ensure the view of delivered risk is well identified, assessed and impacts on the enterprise risk profile
• Ensure key stakeholders across Line and Line 2 understand their roles, responsibilities in relation to these horizontal risk management and design templates, training to implement and embed practices.
• Design and deliver risk training, communications and change initiatives that build risk awareness, capability and accountability across all lines of defence.

About You

• Significant experience and knowledge in risk management, risk enablement, risk culture maturity, gained within an APRA-regulated institution (preferably general insurance) or similarly regulated financial services environment.
• Demonstrated experience embedding risk frameworks and driving behavioural or cultural change within a complex organisation
• Strong working knowledge of APRA's prudential framework, including CPS 230 Operational Risk Management, CPS 220 Risk Management and its focus on risk culture, and an appreciation of the three lines of accountability model
• Exceptional influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior leaders, customer facing teams and Board-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated people leadership skills, with the ability to build capability and performance in a small team

Working at Hollard

At Hollard, you’ll discover an environment where you can truly make an impact. We offer the best of both worlds – the opportunity, agility and creativity of a company growing with scale, alongside a focus on becoming a catalyst for enduring, positive, social change.

We’re a tight-knit team, where authentic voices and unique perspectives matter. We work supportively, collaboratively and inclusively to help shape our future and create shared value for our communities.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance. We’re also unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences, including as it relates to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity.

We’re building something special. Working closely with our industry partners to reshape insurance for the better, we’re people changing insurance.

A full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.