Senior Risk and Compliance Partnering Lead

Elders Limited; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Elders Limited in Australia is seeking a Risk & Compliance Business Partnering Manager on a permanent, full-time basis. You will build and lead the risk and compliance business partnering team, translating Group requirements into practical solutions across divisions, and partnering with senior leaders to strengthen risk ownership.

The role requires a tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, commerce or law, strong leadership, and experience implementing risk frameworks.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, commerce, law or related discipline.
• Strong people leadership experience, including recruitment, coaching and team development.
• Proven experience establishing or evolving a function, operating model or program of work.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement, influencing and collaborative business partnering skills.
• Demonstrated change leadership and implementation capability, fostering collaboration and engagement.
• Commercial and pragmatic judgement, balancing risk requirements with business outcomes.
• Sound Line 2 risk, compliance or assurance experience, with understanding of enterprise risk frameworks and the Three Lines model.
• Experience within a large, complex or decentralised organisation, with agribusiness experience highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the risk and compliance business partnering model, ensuring effective support, engagement and outcomes across the Group's divisions.
• Partner with divisional leaders as they identify, assess and manage their risks, providing constructive advice on risk, compliance and business change initiatives.
• Support the development and maintenance of divisional risk profiles, ensuring risks, controls and treatment plans are clearly defined and effectively managed within each division.
• Support the consistent application of Group risk and compliance frameworks, policies and risk appetite settings across, translating them into practical divisional application.
• Build risk and compliance capability across the business through coaching, training and the development of strong first-line ownership and accountability.
• Lead the ongoing uplift of divisional risk maturity, guiding the transition of risk and compliance activities from the business partnering team to embedded business ownership as capability develops.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Change leadership

Commercial judgement

Risk management

Three Lines model

Agribusiness experience

Organisational complexity

Education

Tertiary qualification in risk/compliance/commerce/law

Job description

Elders Limited in Australia is seeking a Risk & Compliance Business Partnering Manager on a permanent, full-time basis. You will build and lead the risk and compliance business partnering team, translating Group requirements into practical solutions across divisions, and partnering with senior leaders to strengthen risk ownership.

The role requires a tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, commerce or law, strong leadership, and experience implementing risk frameworks.