About the Role
At Insignia Financial, risk management involves understanding information to help leaders make better decisions. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Risk Governance & Reporting to interpret reporting, connect information, and communicate insights to senior leaders, focusing on storytelling, governance, and oversight within the 1st Line Risk & Resilience team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and uplift of risk reporting and insights across operational risk and resilience.
- Turn data and reporting into a compelling risk story, providing context, commentary, and insights for leaders.
- Use business and organisational knowledge to challenge, interpret, and connect information across risk profiles, incidents, issues, controls, obligations, and critical operations.
- Oversee the timely delivery of 1st Line risk reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and insightfulness.
- Provide direction, coaching, and quality oversight to team members for consistent reporting outputs.
- Prepare and deliver high-quality risk and compliance insights, including senior-level commentary and Board-ready papers.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve reporting processes for greater insight generation.
- Act as the 1st Line Risk & Compliance lead for the Atlas risk and compliance platform, focusing on reporting functionality and enhancements.
- Develop and oversee risk team calendars and plans to coordinate governance deliverables, risk reviews, control testing, and reporting commitments.
- Champion continuous improvement by reviewing processes, tools, and templates to enhance efficiency, consistency, and quality of risk information.
- Provide risk expertise to strategic initiatives, projects, regulatory change, and transformation activities, including supporting risk assessments.
- Support internal and external reviews, assurance activities, and audits.
- Contribute to and chair risk forums, working groups, and committees, overseeing secretariat commitments.
Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in Business, Finance, Law, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years’ experience in risk and/or compliance, ideally within financial services.
- Strong experience interpreting risk reporting, data, and insights to identify trends, themes, and emerging issues.
- Strong understanding of risk and compliance management concepts, frameworks, and standards.
- Demonstrated ability to connect the dots across complex business environments and provide meaningful risk commentary and insights.
- Strong business acumen and organisational awareness, with the confidence to understand data context and challenge appropriately.
- Experience overseeing or coordinating reporting deliverables and guiding team members.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, concise narratives for senior executives.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with experience identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve ways of working.
- Strong problem-solving skills and commercial acumen.
- Ability to operate effectively in a large, complex, and constantly evolving environment.
- Must provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia.
- Must undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.
Skills
- Risk reporting
- Risk insights
- Operational risk
- Resilience
- Data interpretation
- Storytelling
- Governance
- Oversight
- Risk management concepts
- Compliance management concepts
- Stakeholder engagement
- Influencing skills
- Continuous improvement
- Problem-solving
- Commercial acumen
- Atlas risk and compliance platform
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 7+ years’ experience
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in Business, Finance, Law or a related discipline
About the Company
- Insignia Financial is a company where risk isn’t just about managing what could go wrong, it’s about understanding what the information is telling us and helping leaders make better decisions.
Equal Opportunity
- We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.
