October 23, 2024

Bank of Queensland

Brisbane

FULL TIME

Risk Partner - Operational Resilience

About the Role
BOQ Group is seeking an experienced Operational Resilience Risk Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing expert guidance, oversight and constructive challenge on Operational Resilience risks to ensure we achieve our customer-centric business outcomes.
Your key duties will include developing, maintaining and testing the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Framework incompliance with regulatory obligations for the Group.
The Risk Partner will be responsible for providing thought-leadership on Operational Resilience management, which covers the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from shocks and changes in the business environment to continue operations and achieve strategic goals.
This will be achieved through a focus on:

Policy life cycle
Key stakeholder engagement
Development and continuous improvement, Operational Risk Frameworks
Compliance to BCM Policy and Frameworks

About you
The ideal candidate will have a relevant qualification in a related field such as Commerce, Business, Finance, Accounting, or Risk Management. You should have experience in a similar or related field, with a deep understanding of Business Continuity principles, processes, and procedures. Strong analytical skills and experience in conducting risk and scenario assessments are essential.
Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills are required to work effectively with all levels of BOQ Group, often with limited supervision. Knowledge of regulatory requirements and standards related to operational resilience is necessary.
You should have extensive experience partnering with business functions and working collaboratively across the three lines of defence to enhance operational resilience capabilities. Additionally, you must have a proven ability to develop and implement operational resilience policies to enable objective challenge.

About Us
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose – to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.

Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal – to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.

Our Benefits

Flexible working arrangements
Discounted financial products
Salary sacrificing options
Paid parental leave with no minimum
Purchase annual leave
Discounted private health insurance plan
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

How to Apply
To apply for this role at #boqgroup #grouprisk, follow the links or apply via our Careers Page.
BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.
We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.
Please no agency applications.

Job Reference: BOQ04131