Key purpose of the role

The Risk & Compliance Manager role undertakes and coordinates risk and compliance activities to strengthen risk maturity, support regulatory obligations and ensure risk considerations are integrated into business operations, decision-making and change initiatives.

Your Team

The Line 1 Risk and Compliance team supports the day‑to‑day management of risk and compliance across the ASX Supervision division which comprises Participants Supervision and Listings Supervision. The team plays a key role in the embedment of ASX’s operational risk and compliance strategy and the uplift of risk maturity within the division. Reporting to the Risk and Compliance Partner, the Manager will act as the primary coordination point for all risk management and compliance activities across the supported business units.

Your responsibilities

- Support the Risk and Compliance Partner in maturing Line 1 risk and compliance capabilities and practices across the division.
- Lead and coordinate risk identification, assessment and profiling activities across Listings and Participants Supervision (including Bowtie analysis and scenario assessment).
- Coordinate control design, mapping and testing activities to assess the effectiveness of the control environment.
- Drive remediation of control gaps, including developing actionable, testable improvements to strengthen the control environment.
- Manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle of risk issues and remediation actions, ensuring clear root‑cause identification, robust action design and validated closure.
- Lead the identification, allocation and embedment of regulatory obligations across ASX Supervision, ensuring clear ownership, effective control linkage and demonstrable compliance through monitoring and reporting.




- Engage across multiple divisions (e.g. Markets, Clearing & Settlement, Technology) to ensure alignment on supervisory risk and control responsibilities.
- Support delivery of the Risk Transformation Program (RTP) and broader risk maturity uplift initiatives across ASX.
- Ensure risk considerations are integrated into key operational decisions, supervisory processes and change initiatives.

Your experience and qualifications

- 7+ years of experience working within a Line 1 risk function.
- Experience performing risk and compliance assessments, control testing and uplift, and incident and issue management.
- Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks and experience operating within regulated environments.
- Strong analytical, documentation, writing and communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple pieces of work concurrently across various interrelated initiatives and workstreams.
- Proven ability to build strong internal relationships and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
- Well‑developed planning and prioritisation skills, with a demonstrated ability to deliver outcomes to agreed deadlines.
- Legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without restrictions.

Nice to have

- Strong operational process knowledge and experience within an exchange and/or trading setting.
- Previously worked at an exchange, financial markets or financial services institution.
- Experience coordinating and implementing organisational risk and compliance transformation programs.
- Experience managing business continuity and disaster recovery frameworks, including practical application and testing.
- Understanding of key markets obligations such as Market Integrity Rules and Financial Stability Standards.

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📌 Risk and Compliance Manager - Line 1 (City of Sydney)
🏢 ASX
📍 City of Sydney