# Risk & Control Lead - 12 month FTC

**Company**: Prospa
**Location**: Sydney
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

At Prospa, we exist to unleash the potential of small business.

We are seeking a Senior Risk & Controls Lead to play a critical role in lifting our first line risk capability.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk & Legal, you'll be instrumental in driving Prospa's operational risk and controls maturity uplift.

You'll focus on strengthening business ownership of risk, enhancing control effectiveness, establishing a practical first-line assurance approach and embedding a culture of accountability across the organisation.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead risk and control assessments across critical business processes.

- Build and improve Prospa's enterprise control framework and control library.

- Identify control gaps and partner with stakeholders to implement practical solutions.

- Design and execute control testing and first-line assurance activities.

- Embed strong risk management practices across business and technology change initiatives.

**Requirements**

- 5+ years' experience in operational risk, risk & controls, business assurance, internal audit or risk transformation

- Hands-on experience conducting RCSAs and facilitating risk workshops

- Strong knowledge of control design, control testing and control effectiveness assessments

- Demonstrated experience implementing or operating first-line assurance programmes

- Process mapping and control framework development experience

- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and constructively challenging business decisions

- The ability to balance commercial outcomes with sound risk management practices

- A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset and comfort working through ambiguity

**What we offer**

- Growth: learning days, a learning allowance, leadership programs, CliftonStrengths workshops, digital learning, and biannual companywide learning weeks.

- Wellbeing: fitness initiatives, seasonal programs, additional "Me Days" and access to holistic EAP coaching.

- Lifestyle: flexible working options, top notch office facilities and diverse remote/ travel work options.

- Impact: Join a business that cares and is recertified as carbon neutral.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- control design
- control testing
- process mapping
- stakeholder engagement

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