Risk and Compliance Business Partnering Manager

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk & Compliance Business Partnering Manager to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis.

Join us at a pivotal stage of our risk maturity journey. As Risk and Compliance Business Partnering Manager, you will have the opportunity to build and lead our risk and compliance business partnering team and establish the partnering model across the Group. Working closely with the Head of Group Risk and Compliance and divisional leadership teams, you will mobilise the initial program of work and pilot approach, translating Group requirements into practical, fit-for-purpose solutions. Through trusted partnerships, coaching and capability uplift, you will help the business strengthen its ownership of risk and compliance, strengthening accountability and embedding sustainable risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the risk and compliance business partnering model, ensuring effective support, engagement and outcomes across the Group's divisions.
• Partner with divisional leaders as they identify, assess and manage their risks, providing constructive advice on risk, compliance and business change initiatives.
• Support the development and maintenance of divisional risk profiles, ensuring risks, controls and treatment plans are clearly defined and effectively managed within each division.
• Support the consistent application of Group risk and compliance frameworks, policies and risk appetite settings across, translating them into practical divisional application.
• Build risk and compliance capability across the business through coaching, training and the development of strong first-line ownership and accountability.
• Lead the ongoing uplift of divisional risk maturity, guiding the transition of risk and compliance activities from the business partnering team to embedded business ownership as capability develops.

About you

• Relevant tertiary qualification in risk, compliance, commerce, law or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong people leadership experience, including recruitment, coaching and team development.
• Proven experience establishing or evolving a function, operating model or program of work.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement, influencing and collaborative business partnering skills.
• Demonstrated change leadership and implementation capability, fostering collaboration and engagement throughout the process.
• Commercial and pragmatic judgement, balancing risk requirements with business outcomes.
• Sound Line 2 risk, compliance or assurance experience, with an understanding of enterprise risk frameworks and the Three Lines model.
• Experience within a large, complex or decentralised organisation, with agribusiness experience highly regarded.

About Elders

As a trusted Australian agribusiness, we have played an important role in the agricultural sector for 185 years. Our expansive network across Australia offers links to markets, tailored advice and specialist knowledge across a range of products and services, including farm supplies, agronomy, livestock, wool, grain, finance, insurance, and real estate.

We are committed to a sustainable and prosperous future for rural and regional communities and creating value for all stakeholders in the agricultural supply chain, across both Australian and international markets.

Elders is for Australian agriculture.

We are now looking for the next generation to be part of something big and drive the future of Elders.

If you are ready to grow your career with Elders, please click on 'Apply' today.”

For more information please visit our careers page or email [email protected]

Please note, applications may be shortlisted as they are received.

At Elders, we strive to create a safe environment where everyone can thrive. We aspire to do this by recognising talent, promoting inclusion and celebrating diversity. No matter how you identify, we encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply for roles at Elders.

We will accept applications from all people with the right to live and work in Australia.

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