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About the Role

Join a dynamic and high-performing Internal Audit team where your work truly matters. In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering independent, insightful assurance across Acenda Group’s governance, risk management, and control processes. With exposure across the entire organisation and direct interaction with senior leadership and the Board, you’ll have the opportunity to influence outcomes and drive meaningful improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong, professional relationships with Senior Management throughout audits and ongoing engagement.
• Support the delivery of end-to-end Internal Audit assignments in line with established methodologies, processes, and success criteria.
• Ensure all audit work is performed with high standards of professionalism, technical competence, and due care.
• Produce findings that are evidence-based, well-researched, and aligned to risk context and materiality, ensuring appropriate management attention.
• Deliver insights that are timely, commercially sound, value-adding, and clearly articulated in reports.
• Apply a data-driven and thorough approach to testing, focusing on key processes, dependencies, and root causes rather than symptoms.
• Strengthen risk awareness within business areas and drive accountability for addressing identified issues.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of risk culture and conduct risk within financial services.
• Provide practical advice on remediation actions and monitor follow-up to ensure effective implementation.
• Contribute to complex or special audit projects and support reporting activities for the Chief Audit Executive, including reports and Board papers.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in assurance, ideally within Internal Audit, with capability to deliver end-to-end process and compliance reviews.
• Experience within the Life Insurance industry is highly regarded.
• Strong experience with Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley (J-SOX) frameworks is highly desirable and critical to success.
• Solid understanding of the financial services landscape, including regulators and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Exposure to technology auditing and data analytics, including emerging tools such as AI and machine learning, is advantageous.
• In-depth knowledge of internal and external audit methodologies, with a track record of delivering value-added outcomes.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong understanding of operational risks, including identifying emerging risk areas.
• Demonstrated customer service mindset and ability to engage effectively with stakeholders.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (Accounting, Finance, IT or similar) with CA/CPA and/or Internal Audit certifications (CIA, CISA) and IIA membership considered advantageous.
• Provide two references.
• Full working rights.
• Complete police and credit checks through an online provider.

Skills

• Data analytics
• Technology auditing
• AI
• Machine learning
• Internal audit methodologies
• External audit methodologies
• Operational risk assessment
• Risk management
• Governance
• Control processes

Location

• Australia
• New Zealand

Work Type

• Flexible work environment

Experience Level

• Minimum 3 years’ experience

Education Level

• Relevant tertiary qualifications (Accounting, Finance, IT or similar)
• CA/CPA
• Internal Audit certifications (CIA, CISA)
• IIA membership

Benefits

• Career pathways, including local and global mobility opportunities
• Leading Learning Platforms and support in professional development
• Health and Wellbeing Programs
• Accessibility and Checks

About the Company

• Resolution Life Australasia is part of the Acenda Group, bringing together trusted life insurance brands with 176 years of combined heritage.
• More than two million customers rely on us for life insurance, wealth protection and retirement solutions.
• Our purpose is to help customers and their families live, save and retire with confidence.
• We’re building an inclusive, dynamic and future focused business.
• Resolution Life Australasia was founded with a clear mission: to support the long-term growth of the primary life insurance industry and deliver on our commitments to our policyholders, for the benefit of society.
• We serve that mission by acting as a global custodian to the life insurance and annuity industry by providing capital for growth through reinsurance and acquiring and managing portfolios of life insurance companies.
• Our innovative approach ensures promises can be kept, the primary market can grow, and everyone involved can have a secure financial future.
• We pride ourselves on innovating fit-for-purpose solutions to our customers’ challenges.
• We seek talented, ambitious people who dare to be different in their thinking, willingly collaborate, thrive in a dynamic, agile environment and share our desire to drive change for a better future.
• We will support you to drive your own career and achieve your full potential at Resolution Life Australasia.
• We’ve got big ambitions for the future and know we’ve got the best people to take us there.
• We hope to offer our people a career, not just a job.

Equal Opportunity

• As an equal opportunity employer strongly committed to working in a diverse and inclusive workforce you will be provided with any support or accessibility requirements throughout your interview process.