Risk & Assurance Senior Advisor

4 weeks ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Salary band $113,616 - $126,240**

Join us, and support the delivery of great law for New Zealand
- Join a team that is inspired by challenging, diverse and meaningful work
- Be at the centre of central government
- Enjoy a great office location with flexible working options and an outstanding wellbeing package

The Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) plays a critical role in developing and publishing New Zealand's legislation. Our vision of Great Law for New Zealand underpins everything we do. We work across government agencies to deliver legislation that is fit for purpose, constitutionally sound, and accessible.

The work we do is challenging, diverse, and integral to the lives of New Zealanders. There's no other place like it.

**The team**

The Organisational Strategy, Risk & Assurance team provides support to our Executive Leadership Team to help set our strategic direction, implements high quality business planning and reporting processes, and ensures our governance, risk management and assurance processes interact so that we are a healthy and risk intelligent organisation that can meet our objectives and obligations.

The team consists of the Risk & Assurance Senior Advisor role, an IT Assurance Advisor, and an Organisational Strategy & Performance Advisor. The team sits within the wider People, Services and Delivery group, who support the organisation with other services including HR, Finance, Procurement, Information Management and Operations. We are collaborative, aspirational, and connected by our firm focus on supporting people to shape the future of New Zealand's law. We work to build strong and resilient relationships across the business to achieve strong engagement and effective partnerships.

We're a group of talented, committed professionals who consistently deliver high-quality outcomes for the business.

**About the role**

We are looking for an experienced and delivery-focused, risk and assurance professional.

Reporting to the Organisational Strategy, Risk and Assurance Manager, this role is responsible for:

- Risk Management: providing advice, guidance and assistance to ensure that the PCO identifies, and responds appropriately to all risks
- Assurance: developing assurance to monitor that the PCO is being appropriately managed to deliver our outcomes in alignment with our strategic direction
- Security (non IT): supporting the PCO to deliver the Government's protective security requirements (PSR)
- Governance: supporting formal governance processes and ensuring corporate policies meet objectives
- Corporate reporting: developing measurement frameworks and delivering useful, quality operational reporting and supporting the delivery of high-quality corporate reporting.

**The person we are looking for**
- at least five years' experience in an equivalent assurance and risk position at a NZ Government department
- sound knowledge of, and practical experience in, best practice risk and assurance frameworks, systems and processes
- excellent verbal and written communication skills
- with outstanding stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, you'll be comfortable with providing clear and proactive risk and assurance advice to managers and executive leaders
- ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, developing environment
- ability to coach and upskill other team members.

If your proven experience as a risk and assurance professional is matched by your ability to communicate, your passion for continuous improvement and structured technical processes, then we'd like to hear from you

**Our culture**

Located across the road from Parliament, PCO offers you a fascinating insight into Aotearoa's legislation.

Our workplace encourages ambition and high performance - where diversity is welcomed, and where you can be rewarded with the satisfaction of delivering. Our small size allows you to be exposed to broad opportunities and grow your skills along the way. We value our people and provide a flexible and supportive environment.

We offer a range of resources to support your wellbeing such as 5 weeks' annual leave, access to fitness opportunities such as the Parliament gym, discounted health insurance, and annual vision and hearing test reimbursement, in-house te reo classes, and more.

**How to apply**

Applications close **9am, Monday 2 December 2024

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