Senior Risk & Controls Lead | Flexible, Impactful Fintech

Prospa; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth initiatives

Wellbeing programs

Flexible working options

Parental Leave & travel options

Job summary

Prospa, a Sydney-based fintech, seeks a Senior Risk & Controls Lead to strengthen first-line risk and control disciplines across Operations, Product, Technology, Sales, Finance and People. You will partner with senior leaders to improve control effectiveness and embed accountability, driving a scalable risk culture in a growth-focused environment.

You will lead risk assessments, build a robust control library, and embed risk management across major change initiatives while influencing

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

Risk & Controls

Stakeholder Engagement

RCSA Facilitation

Control Testing

Process Mapping

Job description

Prospa, a Sydney-based fintech, seeks a Senior Risk & Controls Lead to strengthen first-line risk and control disciplines across Operations, Product, Technology, Sales, Finance and People. You will partner with senior leaders to improve control effectiveness and embed accountability, driving a scalable risk culture in a growth-focused environment.

You will lead risk assessments, build a robust control library, and embed risk management across major change initiatives while influencing