About the Role
This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract for a Senior Manager - Operational Risk Mastery within Medibank’s Group Risk & Compliance team. The position involves leading critical risk management uplift initiatives across the enterprise, strengthening risk capability, enhancing governance frameworks, and embedding a proactive risk and compliance culture. The role offers an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide risk practices, modernize key risk frameworks, drive GRC system enhancements, and partner with senior leaders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, modernisation and implementation of enterprise risk framework components, including Risk Profiling, Emerging Risk, Incident Management and Issue Management.
- Drive the consistent adoption of scalable risk processes, leveraging modern risk tools, data-driven insights and continuous improvement practices.
- Develop and maintain contemporary guidance materials, templates and standards that support effective risk management across the organisation.
- Support the development and implementation of Medibank’s strategic GRC system solution, including business requirements documentation and data governance processes.
- Establish approaches for integrating risk data into a single source of truth, improving data quality and risk reporting capabilities.
- Identify, develop and implement risk and compliance coaching, training and capability uplift initiatives across the business.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders while contributing to the successful delivery of regulatory uplift objectives.
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in enterprise risk management and policy development within the Australian Financial Services industry.
- Proven ability to shape and drive a strong risk culture within a large, regulated organisation.
- Strong knowledge of APRA standards and CPS220 requirements, with demonstrated experience delivering risk uplift initiatives.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across all organisational levels.
- Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting and presenting complex technical information.
- A results-driven mindset, able to thrive in a fast-paced, initiative-led environment and deliver to agreed timeframes.
- Demonstrated integrity, sound judgement and a genuine commitment to effective risk management.
- Strategic thinking, commercial acumen and the ability to drive innovative approaches to operational risk management.
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Remote (East Coast)
Work Type
- 12-month fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Connection
- Personal development
- Health and wellbeing
About the Company
- Medibank strives to make real, fundamental change, driven by a simple purpose: to create the best health and wellbeing for all of Australia.
- Medibank is reinventing work, believing happy, healthy people make great teams.
- Medibank is committed to fostering a workplace where work doesn't feel like work, allowing employees to shape when and where they work to have more impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Medibank believes in everyone's potential and strives to make Medibank inclusive for all because different perspectives make us better.
- Encourages applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, neurodivergent candidates, LGBTQIA+ community including transgender and gender diverse candidates and candidates with a disability.
- Offers adjustments or alternative formats at any stage of the recruitment or employment journey.
