Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Director, Business Risk Partner to join our leadership team and play a critical role in enabling the business to grow safely, sustainably, and confidently.

This is a high-impact role where you’ll partner with senior executives, influence strategic decisions, and lead a modern, proactive approach to risk management across the organisation.

What You'll Do

As a trusted advisor to the business, you will:

• Partner with senior leadership to embed risk thinking into decision-making and strategic planning
• Lead the design and execution of enterprise-wide risk frameworks, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Drive a forward-looking, data-driven risk culture that balances growth with resilience
• Identify, assess, and mitigate strategic, operational, financial, and regulatory risks
• Provide clear insights and recommendations to Executive and Board-level stakeholders
• Build and lead a high-performing risk team, fostering capability, engagement, and continuous improvement
• Champion transformation initiatives, enhancing systems, processes, and governance frameworks

What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience in enterprise risk management, business risk advisory, or similar leadership roles
• Proven ability to influence and partner at C-suite level
• Strong understanding of risk frameworks, governance, and regulatory environments
• Track record of leading large-scale transformation or uplift initiatives
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• A commercial mindset with the ability to balance risk and business outcomes
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams

The Good Stuff...

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.
  
  

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity

If you’re a strategic risk leader who thrives on influence, transformation, and making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.