Senior Risk and Compliance Analyst, Business Resilience (12 months FTC)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

This role is responsible for improving and maintaining TAL’s Business Continuity capabilities through:

• Assisting key representatives within the Business to enhance TAL’s Business Impact Analysis and Business Continuity Plan documentation in accordance with concepts defined within CPS 230 (e.g. impact tolerance levels)
• Working with representatives from Technology and the Business to enhance developed process maps and related dependencies (e.g. applications, third parties, other teams and key personnel)
• Strengthening TAL’s Business Continuity practices in the refinement of potential disruption scenarios relevant to TAL’s business to help guide and inform workaround/recovery strategies to be considered by the business
• Serving as a Business Continuity and Crisis Management liaison, responsible for information sharing and developing relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

This role is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the role of the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) and the requirements outlined within the CPS 230 Prudential Standard (and the Prudential Practice Guide for 230), with a focus on Critical Operations, tolerance levels and Business Continuity practices
• Ability to review, challenge and work with the business to develop pragmatic solutions to further refine developed impact tolerance levels (given known interdependencies and existing inputs)
• Business analysis skills (i.e. ability to analyse, document and update process maps, and identify dependencies and other relationships to people, processes, systems and third parties)
• Strong understanding of Business Continuity, Resilience Management Frameworks and practices and internal control frameworks, and their relationship to IT Service Continuity (Disaster Recovery) practices
• Proven stakeholder management, influencing and negotiating skills, with excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to lead and challenge team members in scenario-based disruption test exercises
• Strong ability to work autonomously
• Knowledge of life insurance industry
• Demonstrated ability to calmly manage and respond to high tempo and high stress activities

Additional Information

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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