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Reference: 1690649 Posted: 8 days ago

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Risk & Compliance Lead - APAC

North Sydney | Hybrid | $140,000-$150,000 + Super

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Risk & Compliance Lead to join a growing global business in a newly created position based in North Sydney.

This is a genuine opportunity to make your mark and influence the direction of risk and compliance across APAC. As a newly created role, you’ll have the freedom to shape and improve processes, build strong relationships across the business and implement practical solutions.

You’ll join a business with an excellent, collaborative culture, approachable leadership and genuine autonomy, where you’ll be trusted to take ownership and have a real voice in how things are done.

About the role

- Leading and continuously improving the APAC risk and compliance framework
- Maintaining regional policies, standards and regulatory obligations
- Monitoring regulatory developments across multiple APAC jurisdictions and translating these into practical business requirements
- Providing commercially focused risk and compliance advice to senior stakeholders across Sales, Client Services, Operations and other functions
- Assessing the effectiveness of business processes and controls and identifying areas for improvement
- Leading assurance reviews, remediation activities and root-cause investigations
- Managing risk and compliance incidents, including escalation and reporting where required
- Overseeing regulatory reporting, compliance calendars, licence renewals and scheduled reviews
- Supporting new services,



clients and business initiatives from a risk and compliance perspective
- Preparing clear and insightful reporting for regional and Group stakeholders
- Working closely with and providing guidance to an established offshore Risk & Compliance team
- Supporting the development of a strong risk-aware and accountable culture across APAC

About you

- Experience across Risk & Compliance, Operational Risk, GRC, Regulatory Compliance or a related discipline
- Experience interpreting regulatory requirements and translating them into practical business controls
- Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging senior leaders
- A commercial and solutions-focused approach to risk and compliance
- Experience working across complex or multi-jurisdictional environments
- The ability to adapt to change and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with risk frameworks, assurance, controls, incidents and remediation
- Experience within HR, recruitment, workforce solutions or professional services highly regarded

What's on Offer

- Newly created position with genuine ownership and autonomy
- APAC-wide exposure & senior stakeholder exposure
- Established offshore team to support and develop
- Hybrid working - minimum of 2 days in the office
- Birthday leave
- Supportive and approachable leadership team
- Strong, collaborative culture

If you're looking for a role where you can combine risk expertise, commercial thinking and genuine business partnering while having the opportunity to shape a growing APAC function, we'd love to hear from you.

Click APPLY or contact Megan Kincaid on [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

www.charterhouse.com.au

📌 Risk & Compliance Lead (Australia)
🏢 Charterhouse
📍 Australia