Full time
Are you a project risk management expert passionate about enhancing risk awareness and governance within a dynamic portfolio of projects? Join our Technology & Transformation division as a Senior Program and Portfolio Risk Specialist and play a pivotal role in shaping the risk culture across our bank.
About the role As our Senior Project Risk Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in managing our project portfolio with diligence and strategic foresight. You will provide expert risk advice, oversight, and constructive challenge across the bank's diverse projects, ensuring alignment with our established project governance and operational risk management frameworks. By establishing yourself as a trusted partner to Program Directors and Project Managers, your key responsibilities will include:
Provide risk advice, review, and challenge to Program Directors and Project Managers to ensure risks are being managed in alignment with the bank's project governance and operational risk frameworks.Ensure consistent project risk governance processes are implemented across programs and that portfolio and program-level risks are accurately reported to governance forums.Collaborate with Program Directors and Project Managers to undertake risk profiling for programs and the overall portfolio, ensuring that risks are identified, managed, and reported effectively.Review project risk registers to validate that risks are appropriately described, rated, and mitigated; and that risk backlogs are actively tracked and managed.Lead efforts to increase the maturity of risk management practices across the project portfolio, promoting continuous improvement in risk awareness and mitigation strategies.Advocate for and support risk accountability across the portfolio, ensuring projects take ownership of managing both delivery and delivered risks.Develop and maintain risk awareness materials and deliver regular risk induction sessions for new project team members.Assurance & Audit Support: Escalate issues and incidents in accordance with the bank's operational risk management framework.Provide support during audits and assurance reviews, ensuring that risk management practices comply with the operational risk framework and project governance requirements.Leadership: Leverage extensive experience to provide expert advice on best practice project risk governance and assurance approaches within projects, ensuring alignment with industry standards and strategic objectives.Drive the implementation of project risk management processes, frameworks, and tools to improve the organisation's risk posture.About You We're looking for someone with at least 6 years' experience in project and portfolio risk management, preferably within financial services. Additionally, you will relish the opportunity to positively influence the wider business through education and driving a strong risk and controls culture. Your work history will also demonstrate:
Deep understanding of risk frameworks, operational risk, project risk and project governance in highly regulated environments such as banking.Proven ability to engage with and influence senior leaders and stakeholders, promoting risk awareness and accountability.Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex risk information clearly and persuasively to stakeholders.Ability to challenge and review project risk data to ensure robust risk management processes are in place.A bit about People First Bank In March 2023, People's Choice and Heritage Bank merged to form Heritage and People's Choice Limited - Australia's leading mutual bank. We are now on an exciting journey to bring together our products, services, and technology under a single brand - People First Bank.
If this sounds like you, this could be the next step in your career. Click 'Apply' now and submit your application, including a cover letter and current resume by Friday, 1 November 2024.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and support candidate requests for adjustments to enable everyone to equitably participate in our selection process.
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