Job Description

Make your mark. Put your fingerprint on the future. Stronger together.

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Manager – Risk & Compliance to play a pivotal role in supporting our Superannuation (Master Trust) business through a period of transformation. This is a highly visible role where you’ll partner with senior leaders, influence strategic initiatives, and work with service providers and help embed a strong, forward looking risk culture across the business. This senior Line 1 Risk role reports into the Head of Risk.

As a hands-on trusted advisor, you’ll provide high quality risk and compliance support while driving the uplift and embedment of Insignia Financial’s Risk Management Framework. You’ll sit at the intersection of strategy, regulation, and operations, to ensure we deliver compliant, well governed, and customer centric outcomes.

Why this role matters

Your work will directly support the delivery of fair, compliant, and transparent outcomes for members, ensuring regulatory obligations are met while improving financial futures for Australians.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, coach and influence a team, fostering a high-performing and accountable culture
• Partner with the business on strategic initiatives, providing expert risk and compliance guidance
• Drive the embedment and continuous improvement of the Risk Management Framework
• Lead the integration and uplift of risk and compliance processes across the division
• Provide timely, high quality technical advice and action regulatory obligations in the GRC system, perform incident triage, action breach assessments, conduct compliance plan reviews, assess impact on critical operations and address prudential matters
• Identify and interpret regulatory change, translating it into actionable business outcomes
• Review business proposals and projects to ensure alignment with compliance and risk requirements, and undertake delivered risk assessments
• Oversee and monitor project adherence to risk and compliance standards
• Prepare and present clear, concise reporting for executives, Boards, and regulators
• Support regulatory and Board engagements as required
• Champion a proactive risk culture, influencing and challenging stakeholders constructively
• Provide subject matter expertise across governance forums, steering committees, and key initiatives

What you bring

• 8+ years’ experience in risk and compliance within financial services (superannuation highly regarded)
• Strong understanding of the superannuation regulatory environment, obligations, and frameworks
• Proven leadership capability, with experience motivating and influencing teams, senior stakeholders, and service providers
• Deep experience across risk frameworks, controls testing (OE/DE), assurance, incidents, and breach reporting
• Ability to manage incident portfolios end-to-end, including regulatory submissions and stakeholder engagement
• Strong commercial acumen with knowledge across operations, products, and fund administration
• Experience delivering risk and compliance outcomes within transformation or project environments
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills - confident, collaborative, and able to challenge constructively
• Highly analytical with the ability to interpret complex legislation and apply it practically
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, and able to operate autonomously in a fast-paced environment
• Meticulous acumen when preparing executive-level reporting and presentations
• Strong communication skills, with experience dealing with 3rd party service providers day to day a plus
• Power BI, data management, business process mapping experience a plus

To Apply

Read more about why you should join our team https://www.insigniafinancial.com.au/careers/working-with-us/why-join-our-team

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.