About the Role
The Risk & Compliance Manager role undertakes and coordinates risk and compliance activities to strengthen risk maturity, support regulatory obligations and ensure risk considerations are integrated into business operations, decision-making and change initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support the Risk and Compliance Partner in maturing Line 1 risk and compliance capabilities and practices across the division.
- Lead and coordinate risk identification, assessment, and profiling activities across Listings and Participants Supervision (including Bowtie analysis and scenario assessment).
- Coordinate control design, mapping, and testing activities to assess the effectiveness of the control environment.
- Drive remediation of control gaps, including development of actionable, testable improvements to strengthen the control environment.
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of risk issues and remediation actions, ensuring clear root cause identification, robust action design and validated closure.
- Lead the identification, allocation, and embedment of regulatory obligations across ASX Supervision, ensuring clear ownership, effective control linkage, and demonstrable compliance through monitoring and reporting.
- Engage across multiple divisions (e.g. Markets, Clearing & Settlement, Technology) to ensure alignment on supervisory risk and control responsibilities.
- Support delivery of the Risk Transformation Program (RTP) and broader risk maturity uplift initiatives across ASX.
- Ensure risk considerations are integrated into key operational decisions, supervisory processes, and change initiatives.
Requirements
- Gained 7+ years experience working within a Line 1 risk function.
- Experience performing risk and compliance assessments, control testing & uplift, and incident & issue management.
- Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks and experience operating within regulated environments.
- Strong analytical, documentation, writing and communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple pieces of work concurrently across various interrelated initiatives and workstreams.
- Proven ability to build strong internal relationships and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
- Well‑developed planning and prioritisation skills, with a demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes to agreed deadlines.
- Strong operational process knowledge and experience within an exchange and/or trading environment.
- Previously worked at an exchange, financial markets, financial services institution.
- Experience co-ordinating and implementing organisational risk and compliance transformation programs.
- Firsthand experience managing business continuity and disaster recovery frameworks, including practical application and testing.
- Understanding of key markets obligations e.g. Market Integrity Rules, Financial Stability Standards.
- Candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.
Skills
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Risk assessment
- Control testing
- Incident management
- Issue management
- Regulatory obligations
- Analytical skills
- Documentation skills
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
- Collaboration
- Planning
- Prioritisation
- Operational process knowledge
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery
- Market Integrity Rules
- Financial Stability Standards
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid working options
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years experience
Benefits
- Flexible working
About the Company
- ASX powers Australia's financial markets, enabling a stronger economic future by providing a fair and dynamic marketplace.
- ASX is a leading global securities exchange, known as a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.
- The ASX team comprises talented individuals from diverse disciplines, running critical market infrastructure.
- Technology roles represent 1 in 3 employees at ASX.
- ASX offers a unique complexity of roles across operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk, and compliance.
- ASX fosters a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of the everyday culture.
- Employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, gender equality, accessibility, wellbeing, giving, volunteering, and cultural/religious events.
- ASX is an AWEI Bronze employer and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality.
- ASX is committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.
- If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at careers@asx.com.au.
- We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options.
- Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
- We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.
