About the Role
This senior, business-facing risk leadership role partners directly with leaders in the Intermediated Insurance Australia (IIA) business to shape decisions and drive better risk management outcomes. Operating within a complex commercial insurance environment during transformational change, you will lead a team of risk professionals to support business growth by dissecting end-to-end processes and strengthening the control environment. This role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of a leading intermediated insurer by delivering pragmatic, commercially focused risk advice to senior business leaders.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive business leaders, providing risk guidance and constructive challenge
- Assess end-to-end business processes to identify risks, control gaps, and improvement opportunities
- Support transformation and platform change initiatives, ensuring risks are effectively managed
- Build strong relationships across a complex business to influence decision-making
- Generate meaningful risk insights to inform business outcomes
- Lead a team to influence outcomes across a broader, matrixed environment
Requirements
- Proven background in assurance or risk roles within or serving the insurance industry, particularly the commercial insurance and insurance broking segments (essential)
- Demonstrated ability to assess business processes, risks, and controls end-to-end
- Strong track record of engaging, influencing, and constructively challenging senior stakeholders
- Commercial mindset, with the ability to translate risk into practical, business-focused outcomes
- Ability to direct multiple projects simultaneously, comfortable with ambiguity and able to solve complex problems
- Proven experience operating at Senior Manager / Director level, with the ability to quickly establish credibility with senior stakeholders and to communicate with clarity
- Embodies team attributes – curious, outcomes focused and straightforward
Skills
- Risk management
- Commercial insurance
- Insurance broking
- Process assessment
- Control assessment
- Stakeholder engagement
- Influencing
- Problem-solving
- Communication
Location
- Gadigal Country (Darling Park 2, Sydney)
- Naarm (Melbourne)
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Director
Benefits
- Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard
- 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave
- Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex
- Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
- Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more
- Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave
- Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities
About the Company
- IAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand.
- Our family of brands makes the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.
- As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected.
- We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities.
- We collaborate on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.
