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About the Role

The Risk & Compliance Analyst is a key Line 2 oversight role focused on strengthening enterprise-wide risk management, governance, and resilience. This position supports independent challenge, data-driven analysis, and high-quality reporting for executive and board decision-making, with a critical focus on maturing risk and compliance practices, particularly in relation to APRA CPS 230.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise risk, compliance, and resilience dashboards with predictive and early-warning indicators.
• Produce insight-driven reports for the Board, Executive, and Risk Committees, translating complex data into senior-level narratives.
• Support deep-dive analysis on emerging risks, operational incidents, breaches, change impacts, and resilience vulnerabilities.
• Develop trend, scenario-based, and predictive insights for proactive management of risk exposures and regulatory obligations.
• Ensure continuous Risk & Compliance oversight of GRC data.
• Support Line 2 oversight of operational risk management consistent with APRA CPS 230, including profile development, control effectiveness monitoring, and exposure trend analysis.
• Assist in reviewing and challenging critical operations mapping, impact tolerances, scenario testing, and resilience uplift activities.
• Support Line 2 analysis of root causes, escalation quality, recovery timeframes, and compliance with CPS 230 reporting expectations.
• Support Line 2 review and challenge of material change initiatives, assessing operational risk, resilience impacts, regulatory obligations, and delivery risks.
• Review pre-implementation risk assessments, control design sufficiency, and testing outcomes.
• Provide insights on recurring delivery risks, common control failures, and opportunities for uplift.
• Support monitoring and reporting of regulatory obligations, including APRA and ASIC requirements.
• Assist in uplifting frameworks, policies, and procedures in line with evolving regulatory expectations.
• Monitor adherence to the risk appetite statement and thresholds, advising on deteriorating risk posture.
• Manage Line 2 thematic reviews and targeted control assessments to provide assurance over key risk and compliance domains.
• Serve as a functional specialist for the enterprise GRC platform, including workflow, taxonomy, hierarchy, and data model design.
• Maintain and enhance GRC data structures to improve accuracy, completeness, lineage, and integrity of risk-related data.
• Partner with technology teams to optimize system integrations and automation for enhanced real-time reporting.
• Conduct recurring data quality reviews, integrity testing, and cleansing to ensure reliable data for decision-making.
• Promote a strong risk, compliance, and resilience culture through training, coaching, and advisory support.
• Build relationships with business units, change teams, and service provider oversight teams to uplift risk literacy and effective risk management behaviors.
• Provide tailored Line 2 guidance to improve understanding and usage of GRC tools and reporting input quality.
• Collaborate across business functions to ensure clear, consistent, and timely risk management communications.

Requirements

• 3-8 years of experience in risk & compliance management in financial services in Australia or a similar regulated jurisdiction.
• A working knowledge of APRA & ASIC regulations is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of APRA and ASIC regulations, with strong working knowledge of CPS 230, CPS 220, CPS 234 and risk in change governance.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including use of BI tools, data modelling and predictive analytics.
• Strong capability in GRC platforms and risk data structures.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex risk and resilience insights to an Executive-level audience.
• Strong understanding of risk in change, regulatory compliance management and resilience concepts.
• High ethical standards and integrity.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to risk & compliance management.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Skills

• APRA CPS 230
• APRA CPS 220
• APRA CPS 234
• Risk in change governance
• BI tools
• Data modelling
• Predictive analytics
• GRC platforms
• Risk data structures
• Risk management
• Compliance management
• Resilience concepts

Experience Level

• 3-8 years

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Professional certification (e.g., CA, CFA, FRM) is highly regarded.