Head of Risk and Compliance Advisory – ASX, Sydney (Senior)
Lead and support ASX's risk and compliance function as a senior leader, working across divisions to provide second‑line advice, governance, and framework implementation.
Responsibilities
Senior leadership
- Shape a dynamic future: Translate strategy into clear direction, take an enterprise/system view, integrate external insights, and challenge the status quo to identify opportunities for innovation and value creation.
- Enable exceptional outcomes: Set clear priorities, pursue goals with discipline, and take ownership and accountability for delivery and overall performance.
- Empower talented people: Build and develop diverse, capable teams through coaching and inclusivity—creating an environment that enables autonomy, growth and psychological safety.
- Build trusted relationships: Exemplify open, honest and consultative leadership—listening with empathy and building collaborative partnerships across ASX and with external stakeholders.
Governance & culture
- Establish governance structures that enable the team at all levels to manage outcomes across diverse stakeholders including Line 1.
- Improve the operational risk and compliance environment and culture within the team and across the wider Risk division.
Role specific
- Lead development and implementation of a consistent approach to identifying, assessing and monitoring key risks and compliance obligations across ASX.
- Drive risk and compliance maturity by leading ongoing implementation and uplift of the ERMF, risk culture, policy governance, risk capability and accountability frameworks.
- Provide support and guidance to Line 1 on procedures, controls and approaches to compliance, including when driven by internal or regulatory change.
- Lead a team of risk and compliance advisors to provide expert advice on material non‑financial risk classes and compliance obligations.
- Provide independent review and challenge of key risk and compliance activities, such as L1 risk profiles and risk class assessments.
- Act as the direct business partner to the ASX Technology, Technology and Data divisions.
- Support material issues and incident management, business changes and commitments impacting the risk and compliance framework from audits, regulatory authorities, self‑identified and 2nd‑line identified issues.
- Design and execute 2nd‑line Division‑level risk and compliance monitoring activities.
- Support the ongoing application and maturity of the ERMF including the target state risk culture.
- Manage the risk and compliance incident and breach management standard and process, ensuring continuous improvement.
- Drive continuous improvement in the application of the ERMF, methodology and reporting through risk insights, Line 2 monitoring and deep dives.
- Monitor compliance with the ERMFs, including incident management across all Line 1.
People
- Lead and coach team members to continuously develop capability, build high‑performing, collaborative and engaged teams, enabled by robust talent and development plans, balanced performance priorities and role descriptions.
- Establish governance structures that enable the team at all levels to manage outcomes across diverse stakeholders, including Line 1.
Your experience and qualifications
Must have
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (risk management, compliance, law, finance, economics, or related field).
- Extensive senior‑level experience in risk management and regulatory compliance, including design and execution of enterprise risk strategies in complex, matrix financial services organisations.
- Extensive experience in cyber, technology, information security and data risk management.
- Deep expertise in risk management concepts, frameworks and tools, with proven ability to identify, assess and manage key non‑financial risks across an enterprise environment.
- Advanced compliance capability, with demonstrated experience providing high‑quality advice, insight and challenge across risk management, financial markets, large‑scale project delivery and regulatory remediation programmes.
- Demonstrated ability to articulate complex risk and compliance matters to audiences at all levels, including executive leadership and boards.
- Proven experience engaging with and managing executive‑level steering committees and governance forums, shaping discussion, driving outcomes and supporting informed decision‑making.
- Strong facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills, with a track record of building trusted, collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholder groups, subject matter experts and senior leaders.
- Experience improving operational risk environments and culture, and large‑scale enterprise‑wide risk transformations.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading risk and compliance initiatives.
- Coaching and developing teams.
- Establishing governance structures.
Key Strengths
- Risk management.
- Compliance.
- Leadership.
- Cybersecurity.
- Stake