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Risk Assurance Specialist
Brisbane or Sydney

Strengthen risk frameworks that protect millions of members while growing your assurance career!

 

Why join us?

  • You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
  • Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
  • Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
  • In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

 

About the role

You’ll play a hands-on role in strengthening how risk is managed across the organisation. Working within Risk & Compliance, you’ll deliver high-quality assurance outcomes through various assurance activities (including controls testing), stakeholder engagement, and insight-driven reporting.

 

This is a great opportunity to deepen your expertise in assurance frameworks, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk while working with experienced risk leaders.

 

Day to Day You'll:

  • Conduct a broad range of assurance activities to assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls, processes and frameworks across various business areas
  • Perform walkthroughs, document reviews, and evidence-based testing
  • Analyse findings and clearly document control gaps, risks, and recommendations
  • Prepare detailed assurance reports and maintain audit-quality documentation
  • Partner with stakeholders to understand processes and identify improvement opportunities
  • Support remediation plans and validate that issues have been addressed
  • Contribute to regulatory assurance aligned to APRA standards (SPS 220, CPS 230, CPS 234)
  • Use data and insights to identify trends, emerging risks, and process enhancements

This is a permanent opportunity based in either Brisbane or Sydney.

 

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:  

 

  • Experience in control testing, assurance, internal audit, or risk, ideally within a financial services, consulting or regulatory environment
  • Knowledge of and experience executing against risk frameworks and assurance methodologies
  • Ability to educate stakeholders on control design and best practice
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Confidence gathering evidence and conducting stakeholder discussions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High attention to detail and ability to produce quality documentation

 

Nice to have:

  • Tertiary qualification in Business, Accounting, Risk, Law or a related field
  • Exposure to APRA standards or regulated environments

 

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

 

 

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 16th May 2026.

 

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.

  Full Time

   

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   Posted 06 May 26

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