Risk & Compliance Manager (Line 1)

About the role| He Aha Te Tūranga

As the Risk & Compliance Manager, you will provide risk and compliance expertise across the New Zealand business. This is a Line 1 role and partners with leaders to embed effective risk management practices and a strong risk culture across day-to-day operations, decision making and change.

As a dedicated Line 1 role, you support business leaders to effectively identify, own and manage risks, controls, compliance obligations, incidents, remediation activities and operational resilience requirements. The role provides practical guidance, challenge and insights to strengthen risk ownership, control effectiveness, governance and compliance outcomes.

Working closely with the NZ Risk & Compliance function, the role coordinates and facilitates the consistent application of nib’s Risk Management Framework, Compliance Management Framework, Fair Conduct Programme and approved risk appetite, ensuring Line 1 responsibilities are effectively fulfilled.

The role is critical to strengthening business accountability, enhancing risk and control maturity building risk capability across the business and improving the quality of Line 1 risk insights, reporting and decision making.

About you | Ko Wai Koe 

You’ll bring 5 years' experience in risk within a highly regulated environment, ideally across financial services, insurance, banking, compliance or a similar sector. You’ll have a strong understanding of operational risk, controls and governance, with hands-on experience supporting risk registers, risk and control self-assessments, key risk indicators and risk reporting.

You’ll be confident applying risk and compliance management frameworks and tools in a practical business environment. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, along with the confidence to engage senior leaders, provide sound risk advice and influence outcomes.

We’re looking for:

• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex risk matters into practical business actions.
• Expertise in facilitating risk assessments, managing issues and supporting remediation activities, with knowledge of relevant standards and frameworks.
• Relevant tertiary degree qualification or industry recognised qualifications, or equivalent experience in business management, finance, accounting, legal or a related discipline.
• Excellent written, presentation, report writing and communication skills aimed at Senior Leadership and Executive audience.
• Experience conducting control testing, assurance or risk assessments.
• Experience managing incidents, issues and remediation activities.

Desired:

• Risk, assurance or audit related certifications.
• Experience using Protecht or similar GRC platforms.
• Experience working within New Zealand insurance regulatory frameworks.
• Experience supporting operational resilience, business continuity or Fair Conduct Programme requirements.

Don't tick every box? If this role excites you and you bring relevant experience, we'd still love to hear from you.

About nib | Ko Wai M­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ātou

nib is a leading health insurer and health partner across New Zealand and Australia. Our purpose is simple: helping people enjoy better health by making healthcare more accessible, affordable and connected. 

Health and wellbeing go hand in hand with our ‘future state’ strategy. Ehara i te toa takitahi (success is not achieved alone) - you will be joining a collaborative, innovative and driven team with the following benefits:

• Free health, life, income protection insurance + discounts for family members
• Hybrid work environment
• Join a supportive and dedicated team where you can develop and enhance your career
• An exceptionally generous leave policy including 22 days annual leave, cultural leave, 18 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
• Short term incentive programmes
• New starter benefit – to set up a functioning home workspace

Diversity, equity and inclusion | Te kanorau me te whakaurunga

We embrace an inclusive working environment.  We are LGBTQIA+, disability and neurodiverse inclusive, and welcome people from diverse backgrounds aiming to create a work environment where employee differences such as age, culture, nationality, accessibility, and education are valued to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

Our hybrid working model provides our employees with the flexibility to work from one of our office Hubs and from home based on what works best for them and their team (1-2 days in office required).

We’re committed to creating an accessible recruitment process, if you identify as a person living with disability and require adjustments to our online application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, or would like this advertisement in an alternative format, please contact us at nibemployment @nib.com.au.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history check) prior to commencement of employment.

Next steps: If successful, you will receive an email from Sapia.ai inviting you to complete an online, chat‑based assessment.