Location: Australia, Melbourne
Agency: Kaizen Recruitment
Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, the Head of Risk will lead the organization’s enterprise risk management function and oversee the ongoing development and effectiveness of the risk management framework.
The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening risk culture, enhancing operational resilience, overseeing emerging risk, technology, and cyber risk, and ensuring executive and board stakeholders receive meaningful risk insights to support decision-making.
The role will suit an experienced risk leader who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders while maintaining strong independence and governance discipline within a highly regulated environment.
Job role:
- Lead and develop the enterprise risk function, fostering a high-performing and engaged team.
- Drive the ongoing enhancement of the enterprise risk management framework, policies, and methodologies.
- Oversee enterprise-wide risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting activities.
- Develop and maintain risk appetite frameworks, risk profiles, and key risk indicators.
- Provide independent risk advice and constructive challenge to executives, board committees, and business leaders.
- Lead emerging risk assessments and forward-looking risk analysis.
- Oversee operational resilience, business continuity, and third-party risk management practices.
- Provide second-line oversight of technology, cyber, and operational risk exposures.
- Enhance organizational risk capability through coaching, education, and stakeholder engagement.
- Prepare high-quality risk reporting for executive leadership, committees, and the board.
- Coordinate assurance activities across risk, compliance, governance, and audit functions.
- Support engagement with regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders as required.