Senior Risk & Control Analyst

Prospa; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Learning allowance

Leadership programs

Learning weeks

Flexible working

Parental leave 18 wks

Carbon neutral

Job summary

Prospa in Australia is seeking an experienced Senior Risk & Control Analyst to strengthen our operational risk and control environment. You will partner with leaders across the business to improve control effectiveness and support sustainable growth as we continue helping small businesses thrive.

You’ll lead risk assessments, build Prospa’s control framework, identify gaps, and design testing activities. A practical, collaborative, hands-on approach is essential in this fast-paced fintech.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in operational risk and controls within financial services.
• Proven ability to design and test controls and perform risk assessments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
• Experience delivering risk uplift programs in fintech/payments.
• Hands-on, practical approach to risk management in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk and control assessments across critical processes.
• Build and improve enterprise control framework and library.
• Identify control gaps and implement practical solutions.
• Design and execute control testing and assurance activities.
• Provide insights on control effectiveness to senior stakeholders.
• Embed risk management in change initiatives.

Skills

Operational risk

Risk & controls

Internal audit

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance / accounting / risk management

Tools

GRC tools

Control library

Job description

AtProspa, we exist to unleash the potential of small business. We are building the future of small business and simplifying cashflow by building a leading platform that helps customers make payments, fundgrowthand reduce admin. Join us!

We’relooking for an experienced Senior Risk & ControlAnalystto help strengthenProspa’soperational risk and control environment. This is a high-impact opportunity to partner with leaders across the business, improve control effectiveness and support sustainable growth as we continue helping small businesses thrive.

Why You’ll Love This Role

You’llhave the opportunity to shape how risk and controls are embedded across a growing fintech, working directly with senior leaders and influencing meaningful business outcomes.It’san ideal role for someone who enjoys building,improvingand driving change in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead risk and control assessments across critical business processes.
• Build and improve Prospa’s enterprise control framework and control library.
• Identify control gaps and partner with stakeholders to implement practical solutions.
• Design and execute control testing and first-line assurance activities.
• Provide insights and reporting on control effectiveness to senior stakeholders.
• Embed strong risk management practices across business and technology change initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in operational risk, risk and controls, internalauditor risk transformation.
• Proven capability delivering risk or controls uplift programs within financial services, fintech, lending or payments.
• Experience designing, documenting and testing controls.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• The ability to influence, challenge constructively and drive outcomes through ambiguity.
• A practical, commercial approach to risk management.
• A growth mindset and willingness to be hands-on in a fast-paced environment.

Don’tlet a confidence gap get in the way ofsubmittingyour application.

What we offer

As a busy grow getter, our benefits are here to help you be unstoppable in your mission. Whetherit’sa lofty career goal, investing in your family, saving theplanetor simply feeling fulfilled:

• Growth : There’s something for everyone including learning days, a learning allowance, leadership programs, CliftonStrengths workshops, digital learning, and biannual companywide learning weeks.
• Wellbeing : Think fitness initiatives, seasonal programs (including flu shots, massages, skin checks, wellness classes), additional Me Days and access to holistic EAP coaching.
• Lifestyle : Find your fit with flexible working options, top notch office facilities and diverse remote/ travel work options. You can also purchase additional leave and take up to 18 weeks paid parental leave.
• Impact : Join a business that cares and is recertified as carbon neutral. And you can tap into volunteer days, our partnership with Kiva and join a range of employee resource groups.

WhyProspa?

We’reproud to be a certified Great Place to Work and recognised as a Best Workplace for Women, Best Workplace in Technology, and Best Workplace in Australia. We embrace diversity in people and ideas, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful environment where we celebrate who you naturally are.

Don’t just take our word for it, check out Prospa’s culture code to see it for yourself.