Avant is Australia’s leading medical defense organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years. It was established by a small group of doctors in 1893, who wanted to “protect themselves from actions arising out of the practice of medicine”. Avant now represents over 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the center of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our members, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
The commitment to members and the profession from our people has resulted in over 50% of Australia’s doctors choosing to be Avant members, delivered annual insurance revenues of more than $500 million and total assets of more than $2 billion.
About Group Finance
The Group Finance division has a broad range of functions including Financial Control & Reporting (FC&R), Business Finance, Corporate Actuarial, Investments, Treasury, Internal Audit and Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) responsibilities, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations that apply to each of our broad range of business
About the role:
The purpose of this role is to work with the Group Finance Leadership team to achieve its business objectives whilst managing its risks and compliance obligations. By working closely with the Group CFO and the Group Finance leadership team you will be involved in leading risk maturity initiatives, uplift the risk profile, participating in Finance and groupwide projects and fostering collaboration within other Line 1 teams and the wider risk cohort.
This will be a full-time permanent role based in our Darling Park, Sydney CBD offices.
The key responsibilities include:
- Facilitating periodic risk and control self-assessments (RCSA) and supporting control owners to uplift the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment;
- Assisting in identifying and capturing incidents and issues, including performing risk assessments, root cause analysis and supporting the development and completion of action plans.
- Track and manage and provide guidance and support to appropriately address all open action items. Embedment of risk management practices through the identification and assessment of current and emerging risks;
- Assist divisional leads in managing the vendor/contracts register and policies register.
- Prepare presentation materials for divisional risk reporting, governance forums and committees;
- Finance representation in Group Finance, Governance, Risk & Resilience (Line 2 Risk) and groupwide projects and initiatives to comply with strategic objectives and regulatory standards;
- Support Line 2 Risk in implementing risk processes, risk management analysis, reporting and governance;
- Collaboration with Internal Audit (Line 3) on internal audit engagements across Group Finance processes;
- Promote positive risk culture, maturity and accountability in the Group Finance division;
- Monitor and implement compliance and obligations as they relate to Group Finance.
- Facilitation of the group's Corporate Insurance Programme across Financial and General Insurance Lines, presenting to external market participants and Executive Committees; and
- Provide support to ad-hoc projects and tasks where needed.
- Tertiary qualifications in finance, commerce or a Risk Management discipline.
- Professional risk management qualifications (CRM, FRM, PRM) highly regarded.
- Experience in banking, insurance, or financial services preferred.
- Detailed understanding of regulatory environment including experience working with external regulators e.g. APRA and ASIC.
- Excellent understanding of Operational Risk Management Frameworks.
- Solid understanding of Risk Management principles.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (mandatory).
- Well-developed analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently with strong time management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
Ready to join our team? If you're passionate about delivering exceptional service and want to be part of meaningful work supporting Australia's healthcare professionals, we'd love to hear from you.
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