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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.