Senior IT Risk Advisor: Elevate Security & Compliance

H2R; Auckland; On-site; NZD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6mth+ contract

Dedicated security project team

Job summary

Jora New Zealand is seeking an experienced Senior Risk Adviser to provide trusted IT risk advice across complex technology programmes and portfolios. This senior role focuses on strengthening risk management, supporting certification and accreditation activities, and guiding project teams in managing technology and information security risk.

You will work with programme teams, technology leaders and stakeholders to provide practical risk oversight, ensuring risks are understood, assessed and

Qualifications

• Significant IT risk experience across complex technology programmes.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management capability.
• Experience delivering training or communicating risk concepts to different audiences.
• An IT-related degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant risk, audit or change certifications such as CISA, CIA or similar.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing specialist IT risk advice to projects and programmes.
• Supporting Certification & Accreditation activities and ensuring risk requirements are incorporated into project planning.
• Completing initial solution and system risk assessments, as well as ad-hoc assessments where required.
• Identifying and assessing risks against established information security and risk frameworks.
• Producing clear risk summaries and presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Supporting programme and portfolio managers with risk oversight and decision-making.
• Helping improve risk management processes, governance and awareness across the organisation.
• Providing training and guidance to project teams and stakeholders on risk and accreditation processes.

Skills

IT risk management

Stakeholder management

Training delivery

Change management

Strong communication

Education

IT-related degree

Job description

Jora New Zealand is seeking an experienced Senior Risk Adviser to provide trusted IT risk advice across complex technology programmes and portfolios. This senior role focuses on strengthening risk management, supporting certification and accreditation activities, and guiding project teams in managing technology and information security risk.

You will work with programme teams, technology leaders and stakeholders to provide practical risk oversight, ensuring risks are understood, assessed and