Senior Manager, Technology Risk

CIO Tech Risk Senior Manager

See Yourself In Our Team:

Risk Management is an independent function within CommBank which is accountable for providing approval and acceptance of decisions to ensure the Group remains within its risk appetite. The Technology and Operations (Tech & Ops) Risk team is responsible for providing specialist Operational Risk and Compliance (OR&C) advice, assurance and acceptance/approval of decisions made across the Technology, COO and Supplier Support Units.

Do Work That Matters:

As a Senior Manager, Technology Risk, you will provide Line 2 risk advice and oversight for Business Banking (BB) and Payments Technology, supporting the Group’s technology strategy to modernise platforms (including through the Enterprise Transformation Program (ETP)), leverage AI, and uplift resilience and security. The support you provide will result in improvements to risk management and controls managed by Technology.

Key responsibilities for this role includes:
Technical

• Provide SME risk management advice to crews aligned to BU CIOs.
• Work as part of a team of professional SMEs to provide independent, pragmatic and value-adding Operational Risk advice and assurance for technology and cyber risks across BB & Payments Technology.
• Support oversight of key risks, controls, issues, incidents and delivered risk from change initiatives, including resilience and third-party arrangements.
• Contribute to risk activities supporting AI initiatives and ETP, identifying key themes and providing actionable risk insights.

Leadership

• Develop and maintain partnerships with stakeholders; become a trusted advisor using commercial acumen, practical recommendations; and assist the business to understand where prioritised focus on key risks and compliance matters is required.
• Work as part of a cross-skilled team that can support a range of inter-connected risk domains; speaking up and contributing to appropriate Line 2 oversight and challenge.
• Provide ideas for Line 2 risk management and assurance activities, data analytics and stakeholder reporting; contribute to a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Role model behaviours that are consistent with CBA values expectations and leadership principles; provide a safe workplace for all team members, customers and visitors.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have:

• Experience in Risk Management and Risk Frameworks/3 lines of defence model, ideally supporting Business Banking, Payments, or Merchant services.
• Knowledge of technology and cyber, engineering practices, DevSecOps, IT service management, SRE/Observability disciplines.
• Experience in testing and reviewing cloud controls, with a strong understanding of cloud security and availability requirements. AWS Cloud Practitioner certification (or higher) would be highly regarded.
• Experience in driving efficiencies through the use of AI will be highly regarded.
• High quality written and verbal communication skills, report writing, evidence gathering and data analysis capabilities.
• Stakeholder and influencing skills with the ability to proactively engage Line 1 teams and build trust with pragmatic, commercially balanced risk advice.
• A curious and humble mindset, understanding of external trends and changes, interest in continuous learning, to build risk management best practice.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.

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