Enterprise Risk Business Partner

About the role
In this role, you will support building capability and effective management of Enterprise Risks and business continuity.

Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: Band 8 ($115,035 - $129,911 pa plus super)

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the maintenance, enhancement and strategic execution of Enterprise Risk, business continuity and fraud and corruption control framework.
• Supporting the first line of defense by providing advice and support to build capability and embed effective risk management practices across all part of the business.
• Providing the second line of defense oversight with the ability to integrate with other key frameworks, this includes delivering assurance and reporting of the City’s risk profile to the City’s Executive and key governance bodies.
• As a Business Partner, providing subject matter expertise, challenging stakeholders to consider decisions through a risk and compliance lens. Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand their business and adapt as required to ensure the Integrity & Risk department systems are valued contributors to business outcomes.
• Promoting a risk aware culture, through the development and delivery of communication and engagement activities including coaching, training, and workshop facilitation.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have highly developed analytical skills with demonstrated experience in assessing and developing risk and continuity system maturity, including the provision of guidance and coaching.

Essential Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in a discipline related to risk or relevant specialist certification, together with extensive experience working in a governance role or lesser formal qualification with extensive experience in the field.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with demonstrated ability to foster highly qualitative and engaging business relationships.
• Several years demonstrated experience in governance functions related to risk, audit, internal controls environments using contemporary methodology and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time and priorities in a varied operational environment, regulated and undertaking key transformations.
• Experience with risk management and business continuity software would be beneficial, although not essential.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries
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Applications close Monday 15th April at 11:55pm.

Enquiries: Estelle Davis | Manager Integrity & Risk | ******@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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