Senior Manager | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Risk & Regulatory Consulting

Location: Sydney 

Contract Type: Permanent 

MinterEllison is one of Australia’s largest independent law and consulting firms. With a heritage of almost 200 years, we are known for our excellence, and our authentic and enduring relationships with our clients, our people and our communities.

MinterEllison helps our clients to solve complex problems every day. We do this by our full-service legal offering and complementary advisory offering, MinterEllison Consulting, where clients seek out our industry-informed independent advisors who understand where strategy meets risk, and how to unlock opportunities.

We offer opportunities to work on industry-leading mandates for top-tier clients, while being part of a high-performing and collaborative team that values excellence, diversity of thought, curiosity, and inclusion. We value our people and empower them to achieve their ambitions - with the support, trust and autonomy to grow their careers in meaningful ways.

We support sustainable ways of working regarding how, when and where you work and offer a wide range of social, financial and health benefits (see www.minterellison.com/-/media//Minter-Ellison/Files/Careers/MinterEllison-Employee-Benefits-2024.ashx)

Your Role

The Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team sits within our market leading Risk and Regulatory Practice providing our clients comprehensive GRC solutions across a range of industries with a particular focus on the financial services sector. 

We help clients to navigate the complex regulatory landscape in order to build and implement risk management frameworks and governance solutions, that ensure compliance with all relevant obligations, optimal management of operational risk, and standards of conduct consistent with contemporary customer and regulatory expectations. 

We are seeking an experienced GRC Senior Manager to play a leadership role in the continued growth of our practice, the delivery of exceptional client outcomes and the management and development of our team. As such, the role requires deep technical expertise in regulatory compliance, operational risk and conduct, strong client and relationship management skills and the ability to coach and develop a team. This role is based in our Sydney office with hybrid working arrangements available. 

In this role you will have the opportunity to: 

• Client relationship management and business development.
• Team leadership and talent development.
• Internal stakeholder relationship building and management. 
• Lead the delivery of high profile GRC engagements with many of Australia’s most iconic organisations.
• Demonstrable and strong project management skills 
• Engagement Management including risk, WIP management and billing
• Practice management and ongoing strategy development.

More About You

• At least 8 years working in a consulting environment 
• Proven expertise across the regulatory and compliance landscape, operational and conduct risk requirements and contemporary leading practices. 
• The ability to work with clients to design and implement end to end governance and risk management frameworks.
• Sound knowledge of key regulations and regulator expectations including the Corporations Act, APRA and ASIC requirements
• A track record of working with clients to develop and implement future fit risk and compliance operating models, systems and processes, that are pragmatic and commercial and utilise analytics and automation to deliver business and customer outcomes.
• Experience working with large scale remediation, transformation and regulatory change programs.
• Expertise in relation to emerging regulatory requirements and focus areas for risk management including ESG and AI risk management.
• Strong leadership and talent management experience.
• Effective project management skills.
• Relevant graduate and post graduate qualifications.

How to apply

We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds, genders (including trans or gender diverse), LGBTQ+ people and those with carer responsibilities. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

We prefer to connect with people directly, so please submit your CV by clicking on the 'Apply' button. We encourage all applications, including if you do not meet all the criteria listed for the role. Your application will also enable us to consider you for other opportunities that may be available at MinterEllison.

If you are currently a MinterEllison employee, please apply through the internal careers page.

If you would like further information, require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or for a confidential discussion, please contact Alexandra.Hussain@minterellison.com.