Senior Manager Risk

You’re a leader who takes ownership and actively creates positive change.

You will be excited by the opportunity to drive a positive risk culture, mindset, and behaviours to ensure all employees of Sydney Metro understand their respective roles.

In this role, you will:

Join the Risk Branch of the Finance & Commercial Division within Sydney Metro that partners closely with the business as well as with senior stakeholders, to drive performance, build relationships and manage our exemplary reputation.

Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer and supported by a well-connected collaborative team, you will develop an effective risk environment across Sydney Metro through building awareness and understanding of key strategic, operational and project risks, promoting a risk-intelligent culture, and developing effective and efficient processes to identify, assess, manage, and monitor risks.

You will provide a high level of professional guidance to all aspects of the scope of works of the organisation and drives an integrated approach to risk management, ensuring that risk management principles are embedded across the organisation and are compliant with relevant statutory requirements. You will engage and facilitate workshops with program executives and provide assurance to the Executive that the process and escalation of issues and risks are being managed in accordance with the standards required.

This position will lead broader Risk Governance that includes reporting to the Board and Sydney Metro Executive Team (including on Risk Appetite), the continuous improvement of Sydney Metro’s Risk Management Standard, and the review of risk information in other contracts and other artefacts. This position will require a sophisticated understanding of ISO 31000 (International Standard on Risk Management), Risk Appetite, and a robust and practical understanding of quantitative risk analysis.

Broadly, what you will be responsible for:

• Drive a positive risk culture, mindset, and behaviours to embed sound risk management practices within the organisation.
• Drive the creation of value through the practical implementation of risk methodologies.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise risk management framework and information systems to deliver effective and efficient risk management that supports the organisation to successfully achieve its objectives.
• Provide technical leadership, processes and tools to successfully implement the risk management framework within Sydney Metro.
• Support Sydney Metro with a risk framework to detect potential threats to brand reputation, financial sustainability, operations efficiency and workforce investments to fully develop a shared understanding.
• Embed the review of risk in program lifecycle and governance to ensure risk and retained risk is actively managed across every aspect of Sydney Metro and escalated to Executives appropriately in a timely manner.
• Provide advice to the Chief Risk Officer on governance and risk related matters.
• Direct and coordinate the delivery of regular risk analysis reports to the Chief Risk Officer, Senior Executives, and the Board.
• Work in close collaboration with all business owners to contribute to planning, process development, decision making, resolution of issues, and the effective operation of risk mechanisms.

Please view the role description and information pack for more information.

About you

You are a risk governance or assurance expert and ideally, you have demonstrated and extensive experience in leading Enterprise Risk Management in entities that use qualitative risk assessments (using ISO 31000), risk appetite, and qualitative risk analysis, in a within a large, complex organisation, and agile working environment.

• You will be a proven executive and leader with demonstrated experience in the identification, assessment and effective management of organisational risk that supports performance outcomes.
• You will have proven capability in aligning all forms of risk to organisational objectives and outcomes and creating tools to support decision making.
• You will be highly adept operating in a large, complex government service environment subject to a high level of public and political scrutiny.
• You will bring exceptional stakeholder relationship management and influencing skills and proven capability working at the Executive and Board level including serving and participating in senior level forums and committees.
• You will have outstanding leadership and people management skills with experience building capability and developing high performing teams through periods of transformation and change.
• You will hold relevant professional qualifications in risk management or related disciplines and will have experience working in a rail or multi-discipline engineering environment.
• Most importantly, you are motivated by the opportunity to be an integral part of Australia’s largest program of public transport infrastructure investment which will make a real difference for the communities and customers of NSW.

Who we are

Sydney Metro is leading Australia’s biggest public transport infrastructure program, developing and delivering a new world-class metro railway system for Sydney.

As a NSW Government statutory authority, Sydney Metro has been tasked with developing and delivering metro railways, and managing their operations. Sydney Metro also leads the development of vibrant station precincts to meet customer and community needs, transforming the way Sydney travels and helping shape the future of Australia’s largest city.

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