Strategic Risk Advisory & Assurance Leader

Hatch; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Payments Plus is seeking a Senior Manager – Risk Advisory & Assurance to strengthen risk management and assurance across the organisation, with a close working partnership with commercial and shared services teams.

You will lead complex risk activities, provide specialist advice, and translate findings into actionable recommendations while building trusted relationships with stakeholders to support AP+’s objectives within its risk framework.

Qualifications

• Significant experience across risk advisory, assurance, controls testing, internal audit, governance or compliance, ideally within a regulated environment.
• Ability to provide credible risk advice and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience planning and conducting complex reviews and translating findings into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Planning and delivering complex risk management and assurance activities across assigned business areas.
• Providing senior specialist advice on risk, controls, assurance findings, remediation and governance.
• Leading formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional areas.
• Assessing compliance with standards and identifying root causes of control weaknesses.
• Preparing and presenting clear assurance findings, risk insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Establishing consistent risk management processes, reporting mechanisms and supporting documentation.
• Working with specialists to deliver robust assurance outcomes.
• Building strong relationships across the business to adopt risk methods and standards.

Skills

Risk advisory

Governance

Controls testing

Internal audit

Stakeholder management

Communication

Regulated environment

Education

Tertiary qualification in risk/audit/compliance/finance/tech

Job description

Australian Payments Plus is seeking a Senior Manager – Risk Advisory & Assurance to strengthen risk management and assurance across the organisation, with a close working partnership with commercial and shared services teams.

You will lead complex risk activities, provide specialist advice, and translate findings into actionable recommendations while building trusted relationships with stakeholders to support AP+’s objectives within its risk framework.