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Senior Manager, Risk and Compliance - Retirement

Aware Super · Sydney, New South Wales

Type
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago

Overview

Your experience managing incidents, conducting risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with strict regulatory frameworks like PACE and RIPA directly translates to this role. You're used to handling breaches, root cause analysis, and coordinating with multiple stakeholders under pressure, which is exactly what this position demands in a regulated financial environment. While you'd need to learn superannuation specifics, your disciplined approach to control design and regulatory engagement gives you a strong foundation to step into this senior compliance role.

About this role

Your SUPER career starts here

As one of Australia's largest profit-for-members superannuation funds, we always remember whose money it is and whose future we're looking after. We work to reimagine a new way forward for our 1.1 million members and their communities. Each other. And our world.

Sound good? Learn more about us and what we do at aware.com.au

Your New Role

We're looking for a seasoned risk and compliance professional to join our Member Growth division as Senior Manager, Retirement Risk & Compliance. In this role, you'll act as the trusted risk and compliance adviser to our Retirement business, helping deliver innovative retirement products and member solutions while ensuring they remain aligned with regulatory obligations, risk appetite and member expectations.

  • Melbourne or Sydney location
  • 12 Month Max Term

Key Responsibilities include

  • Partner with Retirement, Product and Delivery teams to provide proactive risk and compliance advice on strategic initiatives and new product development.
  • Support the design and implementation of effective controls across products, processes and delivery activities.
  • Lead and facilitate risk assessments for new retirement products, proposition changes, delivery activities and material business decisions.
  • Ensure risks, controls, obligations, issues, risk acceptances and related actions are captured, maintained and reported through the GRC system.
  • Lead and support incident management for retirement-related incidents, potential compliance breaches and control failures, ensuring timely assessment, escalation and remediation.

How do you exceed our expectations?

  • Strong knowledge of risk and compliance in superannuation, wealth management, banking or other highly regulated financial services environments, with practical experience supporting business delivery.
  • Demonstrated experience partnering with product, strategy or delivery teams to support new product development, product governance, product change and go-to-market activity.
  • Experience with regulatory engagement, including drafting regulatory communications, preparing responses to regulator enquiries and coordinating input across Legal, Line 2 Risk and Compliance and business stakeholders.
  • Strong capability in risk assessment, control design, GRC reporting, incident management, breach assessment, root cause analysis and remediation oversight.
  • Working knowledge of supplier due diligence, third party risk management and operational resilience considerations for externally supported products or services.

Employee Experience

We understand that not everyone works in the same ways. We value flexibility and know that it helps you manage work and life.

Why you’ll love working at Aware Super

  • Have a super impact: You’ll think big and care deeply to help more Australians live their best lives in retirement.
  • Be part of something super unique: You’ll work to reshape super and retirement. We’ll invest in your growth and give you the opportunity to work on career-defining projects.
  • Work with super humans: You’ll work hard and innovate, but also have some fun along the way.
  • Feel super cared for: We’ll support your wellbeing today, as well as in the future. Enjoy a health & fitness reimbursement, work from home technology reimbursement, salary continuance insurance and organisation-wide meeting free zones.

The Aware Super difference

At Aware Super, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our members and communities and a stronger sense of belonging for our people. We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people with cultural and linguistic diversity, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and mature-age individuals to apply. We are proud to be consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and our CEO, Deanne Stewart, is a Pay Equity Ambassador.

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