Corporate Risk and Governance Senior Analyst

The Opportunity:

We currently have an opportunity available for a Corporate Risk and Governance Senior Analyst to join our team in either Melbourne or Sydney on a nine month max term contract. The purpose of this role is to provide operational support to the Risk & Governance team, ensuring effective implementation of risk frameworks, governance processes, and compliance standards across the organisation while increasing AI utilisation and productivity.

This role will support risk culture, regulatory obligations and partners with stakeholders to embed robust risk management practices.

To do this successfully you will:

• Maintain risk management frameworks and governance policies
• Uplift the AI utilisation and delivery across the risk team and business units
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in risk processes and systems.
• Support enhancements to ICFR frameworks and control libraries, including simplification and rationalisation of controls
• Provide advice on risk and compliance matters to Finance, People & Culture, Legal and CEO Office business units.
• Oversee risk reporting and ensure timely escalation of material risks. This includes the logging and tracking of risk incidents, including ensuring these are appropriately understood, tracked and closed out in time. An expectation is that this role will support the business to better understand risk, including assisting with challenges, and root cause analysis.
• Support cross-functional initiatives with Group Office, AIA Auditors, Line 2 Risk, and other BU Line 1 Risk teams to align ICFR risk framework.
• Work with key stakeholders to embed risk culture and deliver strategic outcomes. 
• Deliver Work with the Manager on capability uplift programs, including training and cultural initiatives to improve risk awareness and control effectiveness. 
• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business
• Support to Finance with various Executive and Board governance committees including, but not limited to Steering Committees and any committee/meeting as required

Successful applications will demonstrate:

• Experience in Risk/Governance roles, preferably within Finance
• A demonstrated ability to champion AI, Risk and Compliance and the ability influence stakeholders
• Experience in supporting a risk focused culture and delivering shared value outcomes for customers, partners and the enterprise
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field
• The ability to build rapport and to be seen as a leader/go-to support and work across multi-disciplinary teams in complex and fast paced environments
• Understands value drivers and levers; insight driven; ability to reimagine and articulate new ways forward especially noting AI and process efficiency initiatives 
• A passion to serve customers and equip and enables team to partner with stakeholders to drive enterprise outcomes
• The ability to lead, influence, negotiate and engage at all levels of the organisation, effectively builds rapport and mutually beneficial partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

• Access our training and development to build on your current skills
• Career development through internal mobility opportunities
• Work for a business helping millions of Australians and make a difference to someone’s life every day
• Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself
• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you
• Work with supportive and inclusive managers
• Flexible working arrangements

At AIA Australia, we’re proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians. Through life and health insurance, financial wellbeing and our total wellbeing ecosystem that includes AIA Vitality – the world’s leading science-backed wellbeing program – we’ve started a movement to make Australia the healthiest, best protected nation in the world.

AIA is different. Are you?

If you want to be part of an organisation that helps people live better every single day, apply via the link.