Risk and Assurance Manager

We're looking for a Risk and Assurance Manager to join our People and Transformation team and play a key role in supporting MAS through a significant period of enterprise change.

This role sits within MAS's Elevate programme and focuses on helping the business understand, manage and adapt its operational risk and control environment as new systems, processes and ways of working are introduced. You'll work closely with business leaders, delivery teams and governance forums to provide pragmatic, forward-looking risk advice, balancing delivery outcomes with MAS's risk appetite.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of transformation, risk and assurance, and who can bring clarity, structure and confidence to complex change.

What your day might look like

• Working with business, operational and technology teams to understand how change is impacting the current and future state operational risk and control environment, with an initial focus on MAS's general insurance business

• Leading the identification and documentation of current state operational risks and controls, and supporting the design of future state risk and control environments

• Advising delivery and programme teams on risk identification, mitigation planning, escalation and reporting across MAS's change portfolio

• Supporting project teams to embed good risk management practices, including maintaining risk registers and facilitating risk workshops

• Providing independent, expert insight on delivery and transformation-related risk to programme leadership and governance forums

• Supporting programme and project assurance activities as required, including contributing to assurance plans, reviews and engagement with external assurance partners

• Producing clear, consolidated risk reporting and insights - identifying trends, emerging risks and practical mitigation actions

• Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, promoting a strong risk-aware culture and continuously improving risk and assurance practices across the business

What we're looking for

• Proven experience in operational risk management, ideally within a regulated financial services environment (general insurance experience preferred)

• Strong understanding of enterprise risk frameworks, control environments, governance and risk reporting

• Experience supporting or advising large technology or business transformation programmes, with exposure to delivery risk and assurance activities

• Ability to provide pragmatic, risk-based advice that supports delivery while remaining aligned to organisational risk appetite

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to identify patterns, trends and emerging risks

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging across business, technology and senior leadership audiences

• Experience facilitating risk workshops, managing competing priorities and working effectively in fast-paced change environments

• Relevant risk, audit or governance qualifications preferred (e.g. risk management, internal audit, ISO31000)

About us

We're a New Zealand-owned insurance and investment company with a difference. As a mutual, we're owned by our Members and make meaningful contributions to our community through our charitable foundation.

At MAS, you'll join a team that's motivated to make a difference, focused on delivering high-quality outcomes for our Members, guided by our values - Make a difference, In it together and Own it, do it - and supportive, inclusive and committed to helping each other succeed. You'll also be looked after with a range of benefits including Health and Life insurance and 6% KiwiSaver.