12‑Month Contract | Sydney / Melbourne
About the Consultancy
Join a leading international consultancy delivering specialised risk, regulatory, and compliance advisory services across financial services and highly regulated industries. Our teams support organisations in strengthening operational resilience, improving risk frameworks, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory obligations.
About the End Client
The end client operates within a highly regulated financial services environment, requiring strong governance across operational risk, compliance, and regulatory engagement. This role supports ongoing advisory engagements focused on BAU regulatory compliance, risk uplift, and operational resilience, rather than large‑scale transformation delivery.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity exists for a Promontory Associate to support delivery of risk, compliance, and regulatory advisory engagements.
This role is operational and delivery‑focused, supporting day‑to‑day engagements across non‑financial risk, incident management, operational resilience, and compliance frameworks. You will work closely with internal consulting teams and client stakeholders to analyse issues, provide recommendations, and deliver high‑quality reporting and advisory outputs.
This is ideal for someone with a consulting or financial services background looking to deepen experience in regulatory advisory and operational risk.
Start: 1 June 2026
Contract: 12 months
Location: Sydney / Melbourne
Key Responsibilities
Risk & Compliance Advisory (BAU Focus)
- Support delivery of risk, regulatory, and compliance engagements on a day‑to‑day basis.
- Analyse complex problems and develop practical recommendations to address client challenges.
- Contribute to uplift of operational risk, incident management, and third‑party risk practices aligned to regulatory requirements (e.g. CPS 230).
- Perform compliance testing across products, services, and transactions.
- Conduct independent reviews, control testing, and lookbacks to identify risks and remediation needs.
- Support internal investigations and forensic reviews where required.
- Assist in preparing organisations for regulatory examinations and reviews.
- Support drafting and coordination of regulatory responses and action plans.
- Assist in implementing remediation initiatives following regulatory findings.
- Contribute to improving compliance programs to meet industry best practice and regulatory expectations.
- Work closely with project managers and functional teams across Finance, Risk, Legal, HR, and Operations.
- Support project lifecycle activities including:
- Tracking issues and changes
- Producing status reports
- Managing financial and procurement processes
- Assist in project setup, compliance tracking, and delivery governance.
- Conduct research and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to support decision‑making.
- Produce clear, concise, and structured reports and client deliverables.
- Communicate insights effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience
in one or more of:
- Financial services
- Consulting
- Risk & compliance
- Regulatory or legal environments
- Exposure to non‑financial risk, operational risk, or resilience frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and issues.
- Experience producing high‑quality reports and stakeholder communications.
- Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong communication skills across written, verbal, and stakeholder interaction.
- Experience working within APRA‑regulated environments.
- Exposure to superannuation or financial services regulatory frameworks.
- Background in operational risk, compliance testing, or regulatory advisory.
- Understanding of project management methodologies and consulting delivery models.
- Opportunity to work on high‑impact regulatory and risk advisory engagements.
- Strong exposure to operational risk, compliance, and regulatory frameworks.
- International consultancy environment with structured delivery support.
- Role focused on BAU risk and compliance operations, not transformation.
- Pathway to deepen expertise in financial services regulation and advisory.
Please upload your CV to apply. Suitable candidates will be contacted with next steps.
For further information, contact:
📞 Farbar Siddiq – 0489  922  211
📧 farbars@whizdom.com.au
