Senior Risk Advisor

Join a dynamic team as a Senior Risk Advisor in Wellington, providing insightful guidance and strategic direction to senior leaders and peers.

To be successful in this role, you will have experience as a Senior Risk Advisor with a track record of building trust and confidence with stakeholders, making risk engaging and straightforward. Ideally you will have experience from within a complex organisation, a recent background in consulting or financial services would be beneficial.

This role is crucial in managing risk and improving the accuracy of risk information used in decision-making. In this position, the Senior Risk Advisor will contribute to making the risk frameworks fit for purpose, creating a risk aware culture and promote lessons learned. You will have a collaborative and solutions focused approach and be confident in building relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage risk across multiple business groups, ensuring effective risk management practices.
• Provide expert advice and thought leadership to senior executives.
• Support the annual Enterprise Risk work programme.
• Develop and implement risk management training.
• Contribute to quarterly risk reporting for the Executive and Board.
• Offer evidence-based insights into risks, controls, and treatments.
• Continuously improve risk frameworks, policies, systems, and processes.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Over 5 years of experience in risk management.
• Strong knowledge of best practice risk frameworks, systems, and processes.
• Proven ability to build trust with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Sharp analytical skills and attention to detail.

Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence within this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Luke Gilbert on 04 471 9700.