Senior Risk & Controls Lead — First-Line Assurance

Prospa; Sydney; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Flexible working

Remote/travel options

Parental leave

Job summary

Prospa is seeking a Senior Risk & Controls Lead to strengthen the first-line risk capabilities across Operations, Product, Technology, Sales, Finance and People. You will partner with leaders to build sustainable risk and control disciplines that scale with growth.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk & Legal, you will drive risk assessments, embed accountability, and uplift control maturity across the organisation. This is a hands-on role with broad cross‑functional impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in operational risk, risk & controls, business assurance, internal audit or risk transformation.
• Hands‑on experience conducting RCSAs and facilitating risk workshops.
• Strong knowledge of control design, control testing and control effectiveness assessments.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or operating first-line assurance programmes.
• Process mapping and control framework development experience.
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and constructively challenging business decisions.
• The ability to balance commercial outcomes with sound risk management practices.
• A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset and comfort working through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Embed strong risk management practices across business and technology change initiatives.

Skills

Operational risk

Risk & controls

First-line assurance

RCSA facilitation

Control design

Control testing

Control effectiveness

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Prospa is seeking a Senior Risk & Controls Lead to strengthen the first-line risk capabilities across Operations, Product, Technology, Sales, Finance and People. You will partner with leaders to build sustainable risk and control disciplines that scale with growth.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk & Legal, you will drive risk assessments, embed accountability, and uplift control maturity across the organisation. This is a hands-on role with broad cross‑functional impact.