Risk & Assurance Officer, Finance & Corporate Services. Permanent Full Time - Flexible Location

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Support the implementation and operation of risk, compliance and assurance activities across Finance and Corporate Services functions. You will work collaboratively with Corporate Services teams to support effective risk identification, assessment, monitoring and assurance activities designed to strengthen operational controls, compliance, governance and business processes. This is a permanent full time position and offers the flexibility to work from your preferred location, whether that is your home or one of our offices. 

Key responsibilities

• Support Finance and Corporate Services teams to identify, assess and manage operational and financial risks in line with organisational frameworks.
• Maintain and update risk registers, including risk descriptions, controls, treatments and ratings.
• Support monitoring of key operational and financial controls and escalation of emerging risks or control gaps.
• Support consistent application of risk management practices across Corporate Operations functions.
• Support coordination of assurance and audit activities across Finance and Corporate Operations.
• Support tracking and monitoring of audit findings, assurance outcomes and corrective actions.
• Contribute to assurance activities aligned with the Integrated Audit & Assurance Plan (IAAP).
• Assist in identifying control weaknesses, compliance risks and improvement opportunities
• Assist in monitoring compliance with organisational policies, delegations and relevant legislative obligations.
• Support development, tracking and monitoring of Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) and improvement activities.
• Prepare timely, accurate and meaningful risk, audit and assurance reporting.

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in risk, governance, business, public administration or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in risk, assurance, governance or compliance roles, or related operational experience.
• Experience supporting risk frameworks, risk registers or assurance activities.
• Experience in managing regulatory and accreditation processes.
• Experience working collaboratively with stakeholders to support consistent practices.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering to set timeframes consistently in a high pressure environment.
• Understanding of operational risk, compliance and assurance practices within corporate or finance environments.
• Working knowledge of risk management and assurance frameworks.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify risks, trends and control gaps.
• Clear written communication skills to support risk documentation and reporting.

Benefits

• Work from home or one of our offices
• Monthly rostered day off  
• Join one of Australia’s largest and leading social-purpose organisations

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

How to Apply
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries, please contact Mikaella at recruitment@lwb.org.au

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applications close at midnight on 14 October.