Senior Analyst, Controls Assurance

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you've likely heard of AMP. But at a time when society is changing, we are too. We're now a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking.
For us, these are exciting times. There's a real potential for big thinkers to help us redefine what financial services could be. And turn our legacy into something even more positive and powerful for the future.
Help people create their tomorrow, while you create yours
We help people with their banking, super, retirement and finances. Through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions. Every day, we help people see and make more of their financial potential, so that they can create their tomorrow. And we've been doing it for over 170 years.
If we do our job well, we genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people.
How you'll make an impact
The Super, Retirement & Platforms Risk and Compliance team operates as part of the three lines of defence (3LoD) risk management model within AMP Australia, with dual reporting lines into the Super & Retirement and Platforms divisions. The team's role is to support these businesses in embedding and managing risk and compliance across the business.

The team supports:

• risk owners with the identification, assessment and control of risks to ensure AMPs business risk-taking is within risk appetite (including via an ongoing review of incident and issues as they arise).
  
• risk, control and obligation owners via regular Controls Assurance testing
  
• breach identification and reporting
  
• risk monitoring and management risk & compliance reporting
  
• advice in the solution design and implementation of regulatory change

The purpose of this role is to embed and sustain effective Controls Assurance that supports end-to-end risk and compliance management across Wealth entities.
Main Focus Areas

• Undertake testing of the design and operating effectiveness of controls through conducting walk-throughs with the business and review of documentation, ensuring compliance with the Controls Assurance standard.
  
• Report on insights and formulate recommendations to enhance the control environment.
  
• Draw thematic insights and conduct deep dives across key high priority areas and risks.
  
• Prepare accurate and detailed documentation of control testing and outcomes within the Risk Management system.
  
• Review the control environment to identify opportunities for optimisation. Overtime, lead business level engagement in relation to the testing program for business area.

What you will bring to the team
Ideally, you will bring the following experiences to this role:

• Advanced competencies for the role and 4+yrs experience in financial services and/or assurance knowledge to effectively and efficiently design and run controls testing plans
  
• Experienced at facilitating walk through meetings and presenting information and solutions to business and control owners
  
• Financial Services experience in Audit practice or industry (desirable)
  
• Relevant industry and other professional qualifications, e.g. CA, CISA, CIA, CFA, FRM, MBA (desirable).
  
• Tertiary qualifications in a business-related discipline (desirable)
  
• Advance stakeholder management experience and influencing skills
  
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to relate to a variety of business contexts, confidently demonstrate your expertise in controls design, while maintaining a pragmatic and commercial perspective
  
• Fostering teamwork and collaboration

• Personally organised and autonomous in delivering an assigned scope of work

You'll thrive here if…
If you can adapt from BAU to the ambiguous with ease, you'll do well here. Change is never easy, so bring your commitment, grit and growth mindset.
Because we run lean, you'll be expected to jump in and deliver across a variety of areas. Meaning, you'll be closer to the action and executive decisions that influence where we go next.
If you're someone that can hold their own, you'll find AMP quite liberating.
Why we think you'll love working at AMP
Doing what we've always done is not an option, so your clever ideas will get airtime here. You'll be encouraged to speak up and try new things. If they don't work, we move on - better for it.
We know there's no one way of doing things. So, you won't have to sacrifice who you are or how you work to fit in here. We're inclusive and flexible in many of the ways you'd expect. And in some of the ways you wouldn't. As long as your health and wellbeing come first - at home and at work.
In fact, most of what makes AMP such a welcoming, enjoyable place to work are our people. Wherever you go, you'll find moments to connect, feel valued and do meaningful work.
Whether it's through our first-class leaders who are invested in you and your success. Through year-round opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community. Or in the everyday challenges you face as we work together to strengthen this great organisation. Challenges that will stretch you, amplify your potential and compound the impact you have.
We believe in the power of inclusion and diversity
We're dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging at AMP. It sparks creativity, ignites innovation, and turns up the dial on the quality of our decisions and performance. This not only makes our workplace more engaged, but also leads to better connections with our customers.
We're your allies in the search for the perfect fit - when you apply, let us know how we can support you to put your best self forward during our selection process.
We're also committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so we enthusiastically encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply and explore our Reconciliation Plan on our website.
Ready to create your tomorrow?
If you're someone who sees opportunity where others see challenge, come and work with us in smart, progressive ways as we transform an iconic Australian brand for the future. And, through a series of career-defining moments, create your own tomorrow.
Don't procrastinate! We review applications when we get them, and if we discover the ideal candidate, we may close the role earlier than the advertised close date.
Looking forward to meeting you.