About the Role
This role supports the Head of Finance and Risk in managing and maturing the organization's risk, assurance, and business continuity frameworks. The position combines hands-on operational delivery with cross-functional influence, embedding a strong risk culture, leading the internal assurance program, and ensuring the organization is prepared to respond to disruption.
Responsibilities
- Support the development of a risk management culture
- Support executives and functional teams to maintain and update the organizational risk register
- Lead training for employees on risk, including establishing and leading a cross-functional team of risk champions
- Analyze environments to discover, assess, and document emerging risks
- Assist in developing controls and mitigation plans, and track implementation progress
- Conduct root-cause analysis and identify control improvement opportunities
- Undertake systematic challenge, review, and validation of control effectiveness
- Maintain Key Risk Indicators for functional teams
- Prepare regular risk updates and stakeholder reports
- Provide risk management input and support to operations and business initiatives
- Manage day-to-day Business Continuity Management efforts, including plan maintenance and testing
- Support the operation of the Crisis Management Team including co-ordination of regular simulations
- Coordinate BCP updates across functional teams and lead the development and maintenance of Business Impact Analysis plans
- Design and lead the annual internal assurance program, scoping reviews aligned to the organizational risk profile
- Conduct end-to-end assurance engagements — from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and remediation tracking
- Build and maintain the controls testing framework, ensuring coverage of key financial, operational, and compliance controls
- Own the management of audit findings and drive remediation actions through to verified closure
- Coordinate the annual insurance renewal process, including data collection and documentation
- Liaise with insurance brokers for day-to-day requirements such as certificates of currency
Requirements
- Experience in a risk or audit function, ideally within a technology, software, or mid-sized company - or in assurance/audit at a professional services firm
- Strong project and time management skills; able to juggle multiple deadlines and deliver independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical capability and comfort managing high volumes of information
- Takes ownership and initiative; comfortable operating without close direction
- Collaborative and influential across cross-functional teams and multiple time zones
- Willing to roll up their sleeves, learn on the job, and problem-solve pragmatically
- Open to using AI tools to work more efficiently
Skills
- Risk management
- Assurance
- Business continuity
- Project management
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Analytical capability
- Problem-solving
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-sized company experience
- Professional services firm experience
About the Company
- Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities.
- Nuix Vision: Finding Truth in a Digital World.
- Nuix Mission Statement: Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.
- Nuix Values: TAKE OWNERSHIP, RESILIENT, UNAFRAID, TEAM NUIX, HERO OUR CUSTOMERS.
- We believe in these principles and seek to weave them into the fabric of our daily work at Nuix. In doing so, we co-create a dynamic and purposeful company culture that we can be proud of and want to belong to.
Equal Opportunity
- Nuix is an equal opportunities employer.
- We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer.
- We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone.
- If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please note this in your job application.
