About the Role

As a Line 1 Risk Manager in Group Finance (including Treasury, Balance Sheet and Capital Decision Support, Finance Retail and Business Banking, Performance Management Services, Regulatory Reporting, Tax & Data, Financial Reporting and Control), you will be part of our 1st line of defence, whose role it is to provide risk advisory and oversight of Group Finance’s operational risk profile and effect changein operational risk management and culture, through the continual refinement and implementation of the Operational Risk Management Framework (ORMF).

The core functions of the team include:

• Controls oversight and assurance
• Risk and compliance assessments
• Issues and incidents management
• Treatment Action Plan deliverables
• Managing and embedding policies and procedures applicable to Treasury and Finance

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the business on the design and implementation of controls to enable better risk and compliance outcomes, providing guidance and advice to senior leaders on risk related matters
• Planning and coordinating ongoing activities to uplift risk management and compliance across the business, including Risk and control self-assessment (RCSA)
• Coordinate and oversee annual controls assessment and periodic control testing activities across the teams to ensure control testing is conducted and documented effectively and consistently in a timely manner
• Issue and incident management and root cause analysis
• Manage Group Finance Profile in the risk system and ensure consistency and high quality of risk and control documentation
• Partner with Line 2 and 3 colleagues to ensure operational risk is managed in line with the Groups Operational Risk frameworks
• Provide Senior Leadership Teams with data driven insights on monthly risk management reporting and updates
• Benchmarking compliance with the risk and controls framework against other teams internally and externally
• Moving Group Finance to be best practice in its adoption of the Risk and Controls framework

About you

To be successful, you will have experience in an assurance function, internal audit or a comparable risk and control-related role at a major financial institution.

• You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for detail, a strategic outlook, and the ability to distil complex issues to clear and concise briefings for management.
• Your organisational skills and ability to manage deadlines will contribute to team outcomes and drive effective ways of working.
• You will have a strong risk and controls background with tertiary qualifications in accounting, finance, technology, or a related discipline.
• Banking and/or Financial Services experience will be held in high regard, Big 4 experience will be a distinct advantage.
• Professional qualifications in accountancy, finance audit, technology, such as CIA, CISA, CRISC, CISP, CISM etc. would be a distinct advantage.

About Us

BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.

Our Benefits

• Discounted financial products
• Salary sacrificing options
• Paid parental leave with no minimum
• Paid volunteer days
• Purchase annual leave
• BUPA Corporate Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• A ‘zero tolerance’ to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) with active support for employees experiencing DFV
• 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on; First Nations Reconciliation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career.
• BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

How to Apply

To apply for this role please follow the links or apply via our Careers Page.

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.