Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

• Location: Sydney
• Type: Permanent, full time
• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity
Reporting to QBE’s Chief Risk Officer for our Australian Pacific division (AUSPAC), the GM, Strategic and Enterprise Risk, AUSPAC will join the AUSPAC Risk Leadership Team, providing industry leading insights across strategic, insurance and financial risk classes, providing independent insight and challenge into key risks faced by the business.
Your new role
In this senior role you will act as a trusted advisor to the AUSPAC CRO, responsible for leading the technical risk team within AUSPAC Risk and providing thought leadership to inform and execute thematic deep dive risk reviews while also leading the strategic business plan review to support the formal CRO attestation process.
In addition, you will drive broad enterprise risk leadership activities, acting as principal divisional representative and primary interface with Group Enterprise Risk Management teams to support divisional operationalisation/ execution of enterprise risk processes including RMSA, RMD, Line 2 thematic reviews etc.

Key accountabilities include:

• Leading the Line 2 framework for challenging business plans and performance, supporting CRO reporting and annual attestation.
• Driving innovation in risk management processes to meet both regulatory and business needs.
• Overseeing stress and scenario planning, including development of contemporary scenarios aligned with Top Risks.
• Collaborating with Group ERM and AUSPAC RLT to develop and implement Divisional Risk Appetite Statements.
• Further enhancing and embedding risk dashboarding and insight tools across the Risk Team.
• Translating internal and external data into actionable insights for EMB and business leaders.
• Leading the Top and Emerging Risks process, ensuring alignment with Group profiles and integration into strategic planning.
• Partnering with the Group Risk Culture CoE to define and communicate AUSPAC’s target risk culture and support divisional initiatives.
• Acing as divisional lead for executing cyclical ERM processes.

About you
This is an opportunity for a senior risk professional from insurance or broader regulated financial services. Insurance industry knowledge will be highly regarded but more critical is your demonstrable experience in ERM processes and risk leadership within complex large-scale organisations.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Extensive experience in risk management and financial analysis within insurance or financial services.
• Proven leadership in complex financial services environments, including Board and Executive-level engagement.
• Deep understanding of statutory and regulatory frameworks, stress testing practices, and market dynamics.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to deliver practical, effective solutions across diverse business areas.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• A holistic view of business operations and a collaborative approach to working within leadership teams.

About QBE
We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.
We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!
Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• Voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program
• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards
• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen!
Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.
QBE recognises the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at
recruitment@qbe.com
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Influencing, Navigating ambiguity, Regulatory Compliance, Reporting and Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Management Plans, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Influence, Strategic Risk Management
Application Close Date: 06/09/2025 11:59 PM
How to Apply:
To submit your application, click “Apply” and follow the step by step process.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates

• Extensive experience in risk management and financial analysis within insurance or financial services.
• Proven leadership in complex financial services environments, including Board and Executive-level engagement.
• Deep understanding of statutory and regulatory frameworks, stress testing practices, and market dynamics.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to deliver practical, effective solutions across diverse business areas.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• A holistic view of business operations and a collaborative approach to working within leadership teams