Senior Risk Manager - Australia

theapexgroup; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive r

Job summary

The Apex Group is seeking a Senior Risk Manager for Australia to join the APAC Risk Leadership Team. This role is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Apex Risk Management Framework across Australia, delivering timely risk reporting to senior management, and ensuring that material risks stay within appetite.

You will advise Country Head Australia, promote ownership of risk controls, and drive proactive risk management across the business.

Qualifications

• 7+ years Financial Services Risk Management experience
• Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks
• Hands on knowledge and experience with superannuation funds would be advantageous
• A proven track record of implementing effective controls and driving strategic decisions
• Strong analytical and critical thinking with ability to make independent recommendations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management
• Business acumen to understand business needs
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for liaising with senior management
• Flexible in work approach to meet client deliverables

Responsibilities

• Proactively provide expert advice, support and challenge to the Country Head Australia and its Operational teams in managing risk and controls.
• Brief the Country Head Australia on risk and control matters across Apex and take appropriate actions.
• Provide timely, consistent risk and controls management expertise for Australia, promoting ownership and accountability.
• Work with staff in Australia to implement the Apex Risk Management Framework, including Risk Assessment and Policies.
• Ensure quality Business Continuity plans are in place and tested, in line with Global Policy.
• Implement the Apex Risk Governance model, including Client Acceptance and Local Audit and Risk Committees, considering local regulation.
• Provide risk advice, challenge and input to Client Acceptance governance in Australia.
• Provide day to day incident management support and timely escalation as required.
• Promote risk-based thinking in business strategy and decisions, avoiding surprises.
• Develop understanding of local products and services to meet service level expectations of clients.
• Input to development and implementation of policies and handbooks.
• Collaborate with Group Risk Reporting to produce periodic risk reporting for boards and committees.
• Provide data and MI to support Risk Assessment and identify risk exposures.
• Support local remediation of global or local issues.

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Superannuation knowledge

Leadership

Job description

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Senior Risk Manager

Location: Sydney or Melbourne or Brisbane

About the role:

The Senior Risk Manager - Australia is a member of the APAC Risk Leadership Team, accountable for the implementation of, and compliance with, the Apex Risk Management Framework across Australia. The role ensures timely, accurate and insightful risk reporting and briefings to senior management in Australia that enables the business to effectively manage their material risks to within the risk appetite.

Job Responsibilities :

• Proactively provide expert advice, support and challenge to the Country Head Australia and its Operational teams in the management of risk and controls in Australia, supporting them to ensure risks are identified, mitigated and managed in a proportionate and transparent manner.
• Actively brief the Country Head Australia on risk and control matters occurring across Apex, taking forward appropriate actions if Australia is potentially exposed.
• Provide timely, consistent and simplified risk and controls management expertise for Australia, promoting ownership and accountability.
• Work with staff in Australia to implement the Apex Risk Management Framework, including Risk Assessment and Policies and Procedures, in a proportionate and pragmatic manner, escalating where not fit for purpose or challenges in delivering to milestone dates.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure quality Business Continuity plans are in place and tested, all in line with Global Policy.
• Work with staff in Australia to implement the Apex Risk Governance model, including Client Acceptance and Local Audit and Risk Committees, taking into consideration appropriate local regulation.
• Provide risk advice, challenge and input to Client Acceptance governance in Australia and ensure adherence to policy and process.
• Provide day to day incident management support and delivery of the supporting processes, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures, including timely escalation as required.
• Champion risk based/risk appetite thinking and considerations in business strategy and commercial decisions, promoting a no surprises, no blame culture.
• Develop and maintain an appropriate level of understanding of local product and service offerings, processes and controls to ensure Risk Management activities meet and exceed service level expectations of clients.
• Provide input to the development of, understanding of and implementation of all relevant policies, procedures, and handbooks.
• Work with Group Risk Reporting, contributing to the development and production of periodic Risk Reporting for the local Boards and local and group level Audit and Risk Committees.
• Work with Group Risk Reporting to provide insight and timely trend analysis to identify potential emerging issues, sharing with other APAC Risk Managers where appropriate.
• Work with Group Risk Framework and Operations to provide relevant data and MI to support Risk Assessment process, identify and assess Risk exposures, controls and control gaps, and Residual Risk exposures against Risk Appetite.
• Work with Operations to support local remediation of global or local issues.

Skills Required:

• 7+ years Financial Services Risk Management experience
• Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks
• Hands on knowledge and experience with superannuation funds would be advantageous
• A proven track record of implementing effective controls, mitigating complex risks, and driving strategic decision-making across diverse business environments
• Strong analytical and critical thinking combined with the ability to make independent recommendations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management
• Business acumen to understand the business needs
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for liaising with and influencing senior management
• Flexible in work approach due to nature of the role to meet client deliverables

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business;
• Competitive r