Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we're proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We're Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world's leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We're driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most - and that's a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We're a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
We currently have an opportunity to join our Risk Assurance team as a consultant in a permanent position. This opportunity is open to work from our Melbourne or North Sydney office in conjunction with our hybrid work from home options.
This role supports the Senior Manager, Assurance to independently monitor, challenge and support MLCL's performance with respect to key strategic initiatives and enterprise risk management and compliance frameworks. The role also extends to assisting the team with delivery of regular targeted controls training to our business stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will include:
Performing systemic reviews and deep dives of the implementation of the risk and compliance management frameworks and processes across the enterprise to ensure risk is managed within appetite. Supporting the team in reporting on those reviews to the Executive Leadership Team and Board. Conduct independent control testing and identify opportunities to simplify the controls environment. Promote a positive risk culture and support business stakeholders comply with MLCL Risk Minimum Standards. Contribute to the continuous improvement of MLCL Risk Minimum Standards, Processes and Procedures. Any other task as requested by the Senior Manager, Assurance and/or General Manager Risk.
About you:
A strong understanding of risk management principles including control design, implementation and assessment. Effective time management and proven ability to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities. Highly developed collaboration skills with the ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver business as usual monitoring outcomes. A demonstrated ability to successfully manage internal and external stakeholder relationships. Strong analytical capabilities and attention to detail.
Your experience will include:
Minimum 3 years' experience in a Compliance or Risk related position in the financial services industry. Tertiary qualifications in Legal, Risk Management or Finance (i.e. Accounting, Actuarial, Commerce, Banking, Economics). Expertise in operational risk oversight including incident/issue management and control environment assessment. Understanding of risk management systems. Experience working in a fast paced and dynamic environment delivering results.
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community. We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working. We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people. We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs. We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub. We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.#J-18808-Ljbffr