About the Role
This role provides dedicated Line 1 Risk support to Group Tax, helping to ensure tax risks are effectively identified, assessed, managed and monitored in line with AMP's risk appetite, internal policies, and legislative and regulatory obligations. Working across all Tax activities, the role supports risk governance, risk assessments, control design and assurance, risk reporting and remediation activities. It also plays a key role in strengthening risk culture, maintaining effective governance practices and supporting continuous improvement across the Tax risk and control environment.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate effective tax risk governance through the coordination of Tax Risk Forums, preparation of reporting materials and ongoing oversight of the Tax Risk Management Framework and associated governance documentation.
- Maintain and uplift Tax compliance plans to meet legislative, regulatory and ATO Justified Trust obligations, while monitoring risk performance through KRIs, KPIs and risk appetite measures.
- Support annual tax compliance activities and contribute to wider Finance risk governance, including Finance Risk Forums, FLT, Board reporting, risk culture initiatives and control uplift activities.
- Lead regular identification and assessment of key risks within Tax.
- Lead risk assessment of emerging operational risks arising through change (including through Regulatory / legislative change).
- Design and maintain key controls to mitigate tax risks and support compliance with legislative and regulatory obligations.
- Develop and execute control testing activities to provide assurance over the effectiveness of the Tax control environment.
- Monitor control effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities and support the remediation of control issues.
- Support the identification, assessment and remediation of risk events and issues across Tax, ensuring timely resolution and effective risk management.
- Provide risk insights and analysis to support decision-making and continuous improvement across Tax and Finance.
- Conduct thematic reviews and risk deep dives to identify trends, improvement opportunities and potential control weaknesses.
- Champion the use of IRM across Tax, driving transparency, data quality and self-service capability, while leading data governance initiatives and supporting the ongoing uplift of tax risk culture.
- Work closely with Finance, Treasury and Risk stakeholders to embed best practice risk management across the business, maintain effective relationships with Line 2 and Line 3 teams and provide support to the Head of Treasury Risk, Director of Tax and Group Treasurer as required.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in finance, math or law related discipline.
- 4+ years’ experience in finance, tax, audit or risk management, preferably within the financial services sector within a regulated institution or a consulting/audit firm.
- Understanding of Australian tax principles and tax governance requirements.
- Knowledge of contemporary risk management practices and frameworks.
- Experience applying these capabilities in a complex corporate or financial services environment.
- Highly analytical risk professional who can interpret complex risk, control and compliance information and translate it into practical, commercially focused recommendations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Comfortable identifying opportunities to strengthen risk and control outcomes.
- Effective communicator with the ability to prepare high-quality governance reporting and present complex concepts to a range of stakeholders.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams.
- Ability to consistently deliver quality outcomes in a dynamic environment.
Skills
- Risk management
- Tax
- Finance
- Audit
- Governance
- Control design
- Risk assessment
- Risk reporting
- Remediation
- Risk culture
- IRM
- Data governance
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Organisational skills
- Detail-oriented
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years experience
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing support
- Opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community
About the Company
- AMP is a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking, redefining financial services.
- AMP helps people with their banking, super, retirement and finances through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions.
- AMP has been helping people for over 170 years.
- AMP aims to add to the prosperity of Australia and its people.
- AMP is an iconic Australian brand undergoing transformation.
Equal Opportunity
- AMP is dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging.
- AMP is committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- AMP encourages candidates from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds to apply.
- AMP asks candidates to let them know how they can be supported during the selection process.
