Senior Advisor, Risk

7 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Type**: Permanent
**Hours**: Full time
**Location**: Wellington
**Business Group**: Regulatory Services
**Branch**: Regulation and Policy
**Salary**: $100,359 - $124,891

**Who we are**:
Working at the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders. The Regulatory Services Group, leads, and influences two key regulatory systems for Aotearoa. In the gambling system we deliver community wellbeing through reducing gambling related harms; and in the anti-money laundering (AML) system we protect the trust in the financial systems of Aotearoa. We are a responsive risk-based regulator focused on reducing harm, and ensuring that iwi, hapu and communities across Aotearoa are safe, resilient, and thriving.

**The opportunity**:
This is an exciting time for Regulatory Services as we begin to implement our new strategy and work to ensure people have trust and confidence in the integrity and stability of financial and gambling systems and reduce opportunities for gambling harm, money-laundering and terrorism financing.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Advisor Risk to join our Wellington office. This is a new role where you will have the opportunity to reset our risk management framework. You will be responsible for building strong risk frameworks and developing and delivering a structured approach to identifying and managing risk.

**About you**:
Key to your success in the role will be your sound knowledge of, and practical experience in, best practice risk frameworks, systems and processes.

The experience, knowledge, and skills you will bring to this position will be:

- An understanding of regulatory stewardship and regulatory system approach.
- Experience supporting a risk function in a large and complex environment.
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with senior leaders and staff and build strong working relationships.
- Experience with risk management software.

If you're looking for a new challenge that encourages you to think innovatively to help make a difference to Aotearoa and its people, then Internal Affairs could be the place for you.

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.

**Applications close**:5pm, 27 January 2025
**Job description**: To review the full job description, please click here.



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