Manager Risk and Controls
Do work that matters:
CommSec is Australia’s leading online retail stockbroker, providing customers with innovative online and mobile trading solutions. The CommSec Line 1 Risk Chapter sits within the CommSec Chief Operating Office (COO) and is responsible for managing the accuracy and completeness of CommSec’s Risk and Compliance Profile. This includes reporting to key governance committees, maintaining compliance with our Australian Financial Services License requirements, coordinating Group Policy Regulatory and Framework changes, applying the Supplier Governance Framework, and supporting Distribution, Digital and Product & Investing Solutions Crew.
About the business & your team:
You will be supporting the Business Profile Management (BPM) team to ensure operational risk and compliance frameworks are consistently followed, and decisions are well informed, timely, and effectively communicated. This is achieved through end-to-end risk and compliance assessments, maintaining the overall data quality health of the business profile, delivering mandatory governance and reporting, and driving initiatives that strengthen CommSec’s risk profile.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
Coordinating and completing Risk and Control Self-Assessments for all material risks within the CommSec profile
Working closely with Line 2 Compliance to review and complete compliance self-assessment for in-scope obligation summaries
Managing data quality health, maintaining databases (including RiskInSite), and providing weekly insights
Ongoing business profile management and maintenance
Delivering mandatory governance and reporting activities, including annual attestations
Liaising with Business Banking to deliver group initiatives and framework-related changes
Contributing to a proactive risk and control culture and collaborating with the business
Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders
We’re interested in hearing from people who have:
Knowledge and understanding of Operational and Compliance Risk frameworks
Experience in Operational or Compliance Risk roles
Critical and analytical thinking, leveraging data-driven insights for decision-making and outcomes
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to engage across Line 1 and Line 2
Effective facilitation and presentation skills, including leading workshops and risk discussions
Experience in process improvement, optimisation, or targeted/deep-dive reviews (advantageous)
Extensive experience in banking, financial services, or a related environment
If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.
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