Senior Assurance Analyst

We are seeking an experienced Senior Operational Controls Assurance Analyst to play a critical role in assessing and enhancing operational controls across a large and complex organisation. This position offers the opportunity to influence risk and control practices, support business improvement initiatives, and work closely with stakeholders to drive better operational outcomes.

Are you passionate about strengthening control environments, improving operational effectiveness, and delivering meaningful assurance insights?

About the Role

As a Senior Operational Controls Assurance Analyst, you will lead assurance activities focused on evaluating the design and effectiveness of operational controls. Working closely with business leaders and subject matter experts, you will provide practical recommendations that strengthen control frameworks and support consistent, effective ways of working.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting operational control reviews, testing, and analysis.
• Assessing control design and operational effectiveness.
• Identifying control gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Preparing clear and actionable assurance reporting.
• Partnering with stakeholders to support remediation and continuous improvement activities.
• Documenting processes, risks, controls, and agreed actions in a structured manner. ]

About You

You will bring a strong background in operational risk, controls, assurance, internal audit, or a related discipline, along with the ability to balance assurance requirements with operational realities.

To be successful, you will have:

• Experience working within risk, controls, assurance, or audit environments.
• Strong knowledge of operational risk and control frameworks.
• Proven experience assessing and testing controls.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.
• The ability to communicate findings and recommendations clearly and effectively.
• Experience documenting processes, risks, controls, and remediation plans.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary package.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a large, complex operational environment.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Exposure to senior stakeholders and enterprise-wide initiatives.
• A purpose-driven organisation focused on delivering positive outcomes for New Zealanders.

If you're looking for an opportunity to combine your assurance expertise, operational risk knowledge, and stakeholder management skills in a role where your work truly makes a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

To apply click on link or for a confidential conversation contact Johnny Gowland johnny.gowland@robertwalters.co.nz 0273689333

Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence in this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Johnny Gowland on +64 4 471 9784.