Finance Risk Manager

• Sydney CBD Location
• Flexible Work Hours | Hybrid Model
• Join a Team of Line 1 Risk Professionals
• 12-Month Contract

Why join us?

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

This role presents an excellent opportunity to assist the Head of Business Management in maintaining our Finance business unit’s Risk Management Framework.

This is a 12-month contract role in which your primary responsibilities will include executing the Annual Risk and Control Self-Assessment, implementing the Control Assurance Plan, and managing the Incident and Breach Management process on behalf of the Finance business unit.

You will provide support and advice to the business in identifying, classifying, measuring, and monitoring their risks and/or compliance requirements and issues. Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders to assess and document the operational and compliance risk elements associated with the current suite of change initiatives across the business unit.

In this role you will: 

• Support the Head of Business Management in the establishment and maintenance of Finance's Risk Management Framework.
• Deliver timely Risk Management and/or Compliance analysis and advice to enable the business to be commercially successful and fully compliant with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct risk assessments on the design and operational effectiveness of Finance's key processes and produce timely control assurance reporting.
• Assist the business in identifying and formulating corrective strategies and implementation plans for key corrective actions and preventative controls.
• Support with the management of monthly Finance Risk Committee meetings including leading discussions and providing insights on risk matters such as Incident root-causes.
• Assisting the Finance team members in identifying the potential risks and compliance issues associated with their day-to-day business goals, including assisting with the incident and breach reporting process.

• Significant experience in a Risk Management and/or Compliance role, ideally supporting a finance and/or actuarial function
• Relevant academic qualification
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work as a team member
• Strong written and verbal skills to clearly communicate technical issues related to the work area
• A sound understanding of the insurance industry, desired

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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