Transformation Assurance Lead

Reserve Bank of Australia; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Transformation Assurance Lead at the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney leads assurance across major business and technology transformation programs, partnering with senior stakeholders across technology, risk and business functions.

You will guide reviews across the project lifecycle, translate complex risks into actionable insights, and drive continuous improvement in audit capability. A strong background in internal controls, analytics, and stakeholder management is essential.

Formación

• Experience leading transformation, project, or program assurance engagements.
• Strong understanding of internal controls within transformation contexts.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, and leadership skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing abilities.
• Experience managing external assurance providers is highly regarded.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or related field; professional certs desirable.

Responsabilidades

• Lead transformation assurance audits, including planning, execution and reporting from scoping through to fieldwork, reporting and issue validation.
• Assess major transformation programs across the project lifecycle, evaluating governance, risk management and controls from design through to implementation and transition.
• Work across business, technology, risk and other specialist functions to understand complex transformation risks and provide integrated assurance insights.
• Identify emerging risks, control weaknesses and thematic issues and provide practical, evidence-based recommendations.
• Coordinate co-sourced assurance providers, including defining deliverables, overseeing the quality and timeliness of their work, and ensuring external expertise is effectively integrated into engagement delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders while maintaining audit independence and providing appropriate professional challenge.
• Translate complex project and technology matters into clear and meaningful insights for senior and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leverage technology tools, AI and data analytics to optimise audit coverage and efficiency and enhance the quality of assurance insights.
• Work collaboratively with internal audit colleagues, risk (line 1 and 2), EPMO, subject matter experts and external assurance providers to bring together different perspectives and specialist capabilities.
• Support the annual audit planning cycle and contribute to engagement budgeting, including developing resource and cost estimates and monitoring actuals against budget throughout engagement delivery.
• Stay updated on industry trends, regulatory developments and emerging transformation and technology risks relevant to the Bank.
• Connect insights across transformation programs and assurance engagements to identify common themes, interdependencies, emerging risks and systemic issues, and translate these into broader assurance insights for senior stakeholders.
• Lead and support colleagues through engagement delivery, providing coaching, knowledge sharing and constructive feedback to strengthen individual and team capability.
• Ensure assurance activities are delivered to a high standard and in accordance with internal audit methodology, professional standards and quality requirements.

Conocimientos

Transformation assurance

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in business/technology

Professional certification (PMP/PRINCE2/Agile)

Herramientas

AI tools

Data analytics software

Descripción del empleo

12 Month Fixed Term Contract Location: Chifley Square, Sydney CBD Lead and deliver assurance across significant business' and technology transformation initiatives across the Bank.

About the Role

As the Transformation Assurance Lead, you will lead and deliver assurance across significant business and technology transformation initiatives across the Bank.

You will lead complex reviews across the project lifecycle and work closely with senior stakeholders across technology, risk and business functions. You will bring strong analytical and project assurance skills, sound business judgement and the ability to work across disciplines to understand complex transformation risks and translate them into clear, practical insights. You will be comfortable working through ambiguity, constructively challenging stakeholders and communicating complex issues to both technical and non-technical audiences. Working within the Audit specifically within the Business Change Assurance team, you will collaborate with colleagues and subject matter experts across the Bank to deliver high quality, risk-based assurance and contribute to continuous improvement in audit capability, methodology and technology enabled assurance.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation assurance audits, including planning, execution and reporting from scoping through to fieldwork, reporting and issue validation.
• Assess major transformation programs across the project lifecycle, evaluating the effectiveness of governance, risk management and controls from design through to implementation and transition.
• Work across business, technology, risk and other specialist functions to understand complex transformation risks and provide integrated assurance insights.
• Identify emerging risks, control weaknesses and thematic issues and provide practical, evidence-based recommendations.
• Manage and coordinate co-sourced assurance providers, including defining deliverables, overseeing the quality and timeliness of their work, and ensuring external expertise is effectively integrated into engagement delivery Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders while maintaining audit independence and providing appropriate professional challenge.
• Translate complex project and technology matters into clear and meaningful insights for senior and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leverage technology tools, AI and data analytics to optimise audit coverage and efficiency and enhance the quality of assurance insights.
• Work collaboratively with internal audit colleagues, risk (line 1 and 2), EPMO, subject matter experts and external assurance providers to bring together different perspectives and specialist capabilities.
• Support the annual audit planning cycle and contribute to engagement budgeting, including developing resource and cost estimates and monitoring actuals against budget throughout engagement delivery.
• Stay updated on industry trends, regulatory developments and emerging transformation and technology risks relevant to the Bank.
• Connect insights across transformation programs and assurance engagements to identify common themes, interdependencies, emerging risks and systemic issues, and translate these into broader assurance insights for senior stakeholders.
• Lead and support colleagues through engagement delivery, providing coaching, knowledge sharing and constructive feedback to strengthen individual and team capability.
• Ensure assurance activities are delivered to a high standard and in accordance with internal audit methodology, professional standards and quality requirements.

Experience & Qualification Required

• Demonstrated experience leading or delivering transformation, project or program assurance engagements, preferably within a large, complex or regulated organisation, consulting firm or internal audit environment.
• Strong understanding of internal control concepts and experience applying them, including to major business and technology transformation.
• Excellent analytical, report writing, communication and leadership skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including the ability to challenge constructively and build effective relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing co-sourced or external assurance providers, including overseeing deliverables, quality and engagement outcomes, would be highly regarded.
• Ability to connect issues and insights across transformation programs and across business, technology, risk and project disciplines and form balanced assurance conclusions.
• Experience using AI, data analytics or technology enabled assurance techniques would be highly regarded.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, project management or a related field.
• Professional certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile, is highly desirable.

Your Team

You will report to the Audit Portfolio Manager, Transformation Assurance and work as part of the Transformation Assurance team delivering engagements across the broader Audit Plan. The role provides the opportunity to work across major business and technology transformation initiatives and collaborate with specialists from across the Bank. You will also contribute to building internal transformation assurance capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, methodology improvement and the adoption of technology enabled audit practices.

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward.

Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

Application Close : November 26, 2026 .