Lendi Group is the new group born out of the merger of Aussie Home Loans and Lendi. As a Group we operate a multi-brand strategy across Aussie Home Loans and Lendi, pulling together a truly personalised home loans experience for the Australian audience that balances both human support and smart technology.  

We’re revolutionising the industry with best-in-class technology and a suite of tools that takes the hard work out of home loans – for our Customers and Brokers alike.

At Lendi Group we value work life balance. Our flex-first policy enables our team members to choose how they do their best work; home, office, or flex!

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We’re passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone’s unique identity.

To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/

What’s the role?

The Risk Partner (Projects) will form part of the centralised Risk, Compliance and Legal team (CRL). The Risk Partner (Projects) will play a proactive role in supporting the Lendi Group business to effectively manage the risk and control environment and enhance risk culture.

As Risk Partner (Projects), you will provide hands on support with change risk assessments, risk profiling and assessment and control design and testing. You will also be involved in reporting and incident and issue management. As a key partner to the frontline business, you will use and help drive smart risk management practices to build Lendi’s risk maturity. 

• Perform risk assessments of new initiatives and projects. 
• Proactively engage, assist, coach the business, as line 1, in risk, compliance, and controls. 
• Identify and assess risks associated with business operations, products, and processes, and support the business to develop and implement strategies to effectively mitigate these risks. 
• Provide generalist risk and compliance advice to support day to day decision making. 
• Assist in developing processes and controls to manage risks and issues. 
• Monitor effectiveness of the controls and provide guidance and assistance on uplift and improvements that could be made (for example identify opportunities to automate controls). 
• Assist with incident and breach management and systemic issue identification including providing support on root cause analysis and development of appropriate treatment plans.  
• Lead and support, in collaboration with the business stakeholders, maintenance of risk profiles and the embedding of risk frameworks. 
• Maintain Lighthouse risk management system. 
• Provide ongoing education and awareness to ensure the business complies with its risk controls, policies and procedures and to contribute to the ongoing improvement of Lendi’s risk maturity. 

• Strong experience in risk management within consumer lending, credit assistance , retail financial services. Ideally exposure and experience to risk and compliance within a digital environment.
• Experience in control design, development and testing. 
• Demonstrated experience in providing risk in change and risk and compliance support to projects.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence stakeholders of all levels. 
• Familiarity with broker distribution (desired).
• Demonstrated understanding of various regulatory obligations including National Credit Act, Privacy Act. 

Additional information

• We’re Flex First which means we’ve fully embraced flexible working from home and have metropolitan city offices for those who do want to work from the office.
• We offer extended Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with up to 26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers. 
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service. 

We are a people-first company that invests in initiatives to promote a healthy work environment, such as offering an Employee Assistance Program and social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

Lendi Group is a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer; we value a positive candidate experience and commit to respond to every applicant. Once we have received your application, we will reach out to you via email.

Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.

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