Senior Risk & Compliance Manager

About the role

FNZ is looking for an experienced Senior Risk & Compliance Manager to join its APAC Risk & Compliance team in Melbourne. This is a senior second-line-of-defence (2LOD) risk role providing independent oversight, practical advice and constructive challenge across FNZ's wealth management platform, administration and custody services, including services supporting superannuation clients.

Key responsibilities

• Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge across FNZ's operational and enterprise risk environment.
• Support the application and ongoing enhancement of FNZ's Group Risk Management Framework.
• Assess the risk profile against approved risk appetite and key risk indicators, escalating material exposures and emerging trends.
• Facilitate and challenge business-owned risk and control assessments, including control effectiveness, residual risk and treatment plans.
• Oversee operational risks across platform administration, custody, reconciliations, asset safeguarding, data integrity and technology dependencies.
• Undertake risk-based reviews of control design and effectiveness, with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Oversee material incidents, breaches and remediation, challenging root causes, impacts, action plans and closure evidence.
• Provide risk oversight of third-party arrangements, critical service dependencies and operational resilience.
• Challenge risk assessments and control readiness for significant change, including technology releases and platform migrations.
• Provide clear risk reporting and insights to senior management and governance committees.

Required profile

• Experienced risk professional with a strong understanding of the Australian financial services environment and demonstrated second-line risk experience.
• Ideally: second-line operational or enterprise risk experience in Australian financial services, and experience in wealth management, superannuation, platform administration or custody.
• Hands-on experience with risk and control assessments, risk appetite monitoring, controls assurance, incident analysis, remediation, operational resilience and change risk.
• Strong analytical skills, commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
• Relevant professional or industry qualifications in risk management, compliance or a related discipline.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of the Australian regulatory environment, including the Corporations Act, SIS Act, AML/CTF and privacy requirements, and APRA prudential standards including CPS230 and CPS220.
• Understanding of operational risks in financial services platforms, custody, reconciliations, data, technology and third-party arrangements.

Candidates apply with a cover letter and CV by 18 November 2026; applications are shortlisted as they arrive, and early applications are encouraged.