As the Risk & Compliance Manager, you will provide risk and compliance expertise across the New Zealand business. This is a Line 1 role and partners with leaders to embed effective risk management practices and a strong risk culture across day-to-day operations, decision making and change.
As a dedicated Line 1 role, you support business leaders to effectively identify, own and manage risks, controls, compliance obligations, incidents, remediation activities and operational resilience requirements. The role provides practical guidance, challenge and insights to strengthen risk ownership, control effectiveness, governance and compliance outcomes.
Working closely with the NZ Risk & Compliance function, the role coordinates and facilitates the consistent application of nib’s Risk Management Framework, Compliance Management Framework, Fair Conduct Programme and approved risk appetite, ensuring Line 1 responsibilities are effectively fulfilled.
The role is critical to strengthening business accountability, enhancing risk and control maturity building risk capability across the business and improving the quality of Line 1 risk insights, reporting and decision making.
You’ll bring 5 years' experience in risk within a highly regulated environment, ideally across financial services, insurance, banking, compliance or a similar sector. You’ll have a strong understanding of operational risk, controls and governance, with hands-on experience supporting risk registers, risk and control self-assessments, key risk indicators and risk reporting.
You’ll be confident applying risk and compliance management frameworks and tools in a practical business environment. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, along with the confidence to engage senior leaders, provide sound risk advice and influence outcomes.
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nib is a leading health insurer and health partner across New Zealand and Australia. Our purpose is simple: helping people enjoy better health by making healthcare more accessible, affordable and connected.
Health and wellbeing go hand in hand with our ‘future state’ strategy. Ehara i te toa takitahi (success is not achieved alone) - you will be joining a collaborative, innovative and driven team with the following benefits:
We embrace an inclusive working environment. We are LGBTQIA+, disability and neurodiverse inclusive, and welcome people from diverse backgrounds aiming to create a work environment where employee differences such as age, culture, nationality, accessibility, and education are valued to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
Our hybrid working model provides our employees with the flexibility to work from one of our office Hubs and from home based on what works best for them and their team (1-2 days in office required).
We’re committed to creating an accessible recruitment process, if you identify as a person living with disability and require adjustments to our online application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, or would like this advertisement in an alternative format, please contact us at nibemployment @nib.com.au.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history check) prior to commencement of employment.
Next steps: If successful, you will receive an email from Sapia.ai inviting you to complete an online, chat‑based assessment.
As a trusted health partner, we support the health needs of around 1.6 million Australians, New Zealanders and international students and workers, while also providing travel insurance for travellers around the globe.
We believe that by giving our members access to better health information, tools and services, they’ll feel confident in choosing the right path to take control of their health.
Our team of over 1,200 employees throughout Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United States all share in our purpose of your better health.
nib operates and supports employees and members from all corners of the world. Our organisation acknowledges and respects the custodianship that Indigenous peoples have on their lands and waterways.
