Risk & Compliance Analyst

About Doctors’ Health Fund

Doctors’ Health Fund (est. 1977) is a restricted private health insurer; the only health fund in Australia that exclusively serves the medical community and their families. 
We are one of Australia’s fastest growing health funds and now cover more than 46,000 lives.

Proudly part of the Avant Mutual Group, Australia's leading Medical Defence Organisation,we are owned by doctors, not shareholders. We support the medical community by offering 
quality health covers and exceptional member service. We align our values to the profession by advocating for freedom of choice and clinical independence, while only supporting medically-evidenced treatments and therapies.

We operate nationally with our head office in Sydney. As a wholly member-centric organisation, dedication to our members is embedded in our values, mission, people and culture.

About the Role 

We have an opportunity available for a Risk Analyst to join our Doctors Health Fund 1st Line Risk team. 
This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about pursuing a career within Risk and helping drive risk maturity across the business

Key Challenges

As the business continues to develop in their risk maturity, and regulators continue to refine and enforce the obligations of the business, the incumbent will be required to pay significant consideration to compliance, while applying a critical lens to their work to
identify root cause and control gaps/weaknesses. They will require emotional intelligence to effectively engage with various stakeholders within the business and wider Avant group.

Key accountabilities:

• Facilitating periodic risk and control self-assessments, and supporting control owners to uplift the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment.
• Assisting in identifying and capturing incidents and issues, including performing risk assessments, root cause analysis and supporting the development and completion of action plans.
• Track and manage all open action items, providing guidance and support to appropriately address.
• Maintaining DHF’s vendor/contracts register and policies register.
• Support the team in preparation of risk reporting, governance forums and analysis.

To be successful you will have

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce, Finance, Law or an associated discipline (includes applicants in 2nd year of tertiary studies or later)
• 1-2 years plus financial services (preferably Insurance) experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience ·
• Financial acumen
• Commercial thinking 
• Excellent written and verbal communication 
• Ability to work independently 
• Project and time management 
• Intermediate Excel, Word and PowerPoint