Job Description
Company Description
- Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times.
- Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions.
- Enjoy work-life balance with flexible working options, and well-being initiatives that prioritise your health.
Why Join Us?
Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we’re driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.
Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.
Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we’re reimagining insurance.
So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.
Job Description
TAL’s Senior Risk Analyst – Legal plays a vital role in strengthening the foundations that help us protect what matters for our customers. In this newly created position, you’ll help shape a confident and proactive risk culture across the Office of the Chief Governance and Compliance (OCGC), ensuring we meet our regulatory obligations and uphold the trust placed in us. By supporting key risk management activities and contributing to the successful implementation of the Financial Accountability Regime, you’ll be part of a team that enables TAL to deliver on its promise with integrity, clarity and care, making your work meaningful not just for the business, but for the people we serve every day.
In This Role You Will:
- Manage incidents, breaches and issues to ensure timely resolution and strong regulatory compliance,
- Execute the OCGC’s annual controls assessment to strengthen control effectiveness and uplift risk maturity.
- Lead the annual Risk and Controls Self‑Assessment to provide clear visibility of key risks and mitigations.
- Drive compliance with TAL’s risk frameworks, including uplift activities for CPS230, to enhance operational resilience.
- Deliver clear, insightful risk reporting that informs decision‑making across senior leadership and governance forums.
- Embed the Financial Accountability Regime by supporting accountable persons and ensuring obligations are consistently met.
- Champion a strong risk culture by guiding the OCGC team and fostering collaborative relationships across risk partners.
Qualifications
- Bring experience in risk or compliance that enables confident, practical problem‑solving.
- Understand the Australian financial services regulatory environment and how it shapes good risk practice.
- Relevant academic qualifications e.g. university degree
- Legal background or qualifications desirable, but not essential.
- Ability to communicate clearly and build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Navigate systems and tools comfortably, with a willingness to learn new technology as needed.
- Strong team player with the ability to collaborate.
Additional Information
TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:
An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.
You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.
As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.
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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.
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