Finance Manager - Governance, Risk & Planning

About the Role
Working within a Governance, Risk and Enterprise Assurance function, you will take a strong risk and assurance focus, working closely with executives and senior stakeholders to strengthen risk management practices and drive key deliverables through to completion.

You will play an important role in reviewing and enhancing risk management and assurance frameworks, facilitating enterprise and operational risk assessments, maintaining organisational risk registers and preparing high-quality reporting for senior leadership and governance forums.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the review, implementation and enhancement of the organisation's enterprise risk management framework
• Facilitate enterprise, operational, fraud and corruption risk assessments
• Maintain and enhance organisational risk registers and treatment plans
• Monitor and report on strategic and operational risks
• Prepare high-quality reports, briefings and recommendations for executive management and governance committees
• Provide expert advice to managers on risk identification, assessment and mitigation
• Support risk-related assurance activities and the follow-up of audit recommendations
• Coordinate and support internal audit activities in conjunction with external service providers
• Deliver priority risk and assurance projects within agreed timeframes
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to improve organisational risk maturity and ensure critical risk priorities are addressed

About You
We are seeking a senior risk professional who can hit the ground running and work effectively with minimal direction or supervision.
You will ideally bring:

• Significant experience in enterprise risk management, governance, assurance or internal audit
• Demonstrated experience facilitating enterprise, operational, fraud and corruption risk assessments
• Experience coordinating internal audit functions and working with external audit/assurance providers
• Strong understanding of risk frameworks, registers, treatment plans and assurance processes
• Exceptional written communication skills, with experience preparing papers, reports and recommendations for executive management, audit and risk committees and Boards
• The ability to confidently engage and influence senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience delivering risk and assurance projects within tight timeframes
• Experience within public sector, regulatory or highly governed environments will be highly regarded

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager, Governance Manager, Senior Risk Advisor, Internal Audit Manager or Assurance professional looking for a short-term engagement where you can make an immediate impact.