Risk Manager

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch); Auckland; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Training and development opportunities

Global exposure

Job summary

The Risk Manager role at Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch) in Auckland, New Zealand, focuses on identifying, assessing and reporting risks across the business to ensure controls are effective and regulatory obligations are met. You will build strong stakeholder relationships, lead risk assessments, coordinate remediation activities, and support audits while driving continuous improvements.

This is a senior, collaborative role within a global financial services group.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• Professional certification in risk, compliance, or auditing preferred.
• Strong knowledge of risk frameworks in financial services.
• Demonstrated second line of defence experience.
• Ability to influence and manage relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative team player, willing to lead or support as needed.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify, assess, and report on business risks, ensuring adequacy and effectiveness of controls.
• Act as subject matter expert for Apex NZ businesses, developing deep knowledge of products, services, and risks.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the New Zealand operations.
• Partner with Line 2 Compliance to ensure emerging risks and regulatory obligations are managed effectively.
• Lead risk assessments, testing, and oversight of remediation activities, ensuring timely and effective mitigation.
• Support and monitor local risk reporting, and escalate significant issues as appropriate.
• Provide advice and training to business teams, including Operations, IT, and client-facing staff.
• Coordinate internal and external audit reviews, ensuring findings are addressed.
• Analyse incidents and control breakdowns, ensuring lessons learned and control enhancements are implemented.
• Maintain the Risk Control Profile, Business Risk Assessments, and testing schedule.
• Manage governance reporting (e.g. LARC, BARC), ensuring quality and timeliness of submissions.
• Oversee business continuity planning and support business continuity exercises.
• Support ongoing enhancement of risk policies, frameworks, and procedures.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Second line of defence

Risk frameworks

Analytical skills

Reporting

Written and verbal communication

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

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

Risk Manager

Location : Auckland, New Zealand

Description

The Risk Manager is a key second line of defence role, responsible for identifying, assessing, and reporting on risks across the business. The role ensures that controls are effective, regulatory obligations are met, and risk frameworks are embedded to support sustainable business outcomes.

What you will be doing

• Proactively identify, assess, and report on business risks, ensuring adequacy and effectiveness of controls.
• Act as subject matter expert for the Apex NZ businesses, developing deep knowledge of key products, services, and risks.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the New Zealand operations.
• Partner with Line 2 Compliance to ensure emerging risks and regulatory obligations are managed effectively.
• Lead risk assessments, testing, and oversight of remediation activities, ensuring timely and effective mitigation.
• Support and monitor local risk reporting, and escalating significant issues as appropriate.
• Provide advice and training to business teams, including Operations, IT, and client-facing staff.
• Coordinate internal and external audit reviews, ensuring findings are addressed.
• Analyse incidents and control breakdowns, ensuring lessons learned and control enhancements are implemented.
• Maintain the Risk Control Profile, Business Risk Assessments, and testing schedule.
• Manage governance reporting (e.g. LARC, BARC), ensuring quality and timeliness of submissions.
• Oversee business continuity planning and support business continuity exercises.
• Support ongoing enhancement of risk policies, frameworks, and procedures.

Skills Required:

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• Professional certification in risk, compliance, or auditing (preferred).
• Strong knowledge of risk frameworks in financial services.
• Demonstrated second line of defence experience.
• Proven ability to influence and manage relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative team player, willing to lead or support as needed.

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business;
• Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience;
• Training and development opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please https://www.apexgroup.com/corporate-social-responsibility/

Personal data provided by job applicant(s) will be used for recruitment purposes only and will be treated strictly confidential. Such personal data can be accessed by different Apex stakeholders within and out of country for the consideration of the job application hereunder. Application made by the job applicant(s) constitutes the irrevocable consent of the job applicant for her/his personal data to be used by Apex stakeholders within or outside country for the purpose of this recruitment.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.