Risk & Compliance Manager

• Partner with the business on risk: Provide practical risk and compliance advice, constructive challenge and support to help teams make informed risk/reward decisions.
• Monitor and manage emerging risks: Identify, assess and monitor risks, incidents and issues, ensuring appropriate actions, escalation and follow-through.
• Strengthen our controls: Design and advise on effective preventative and detective controls, including opportunities to use automation and technology to improve how risks are managed.
• Embed risk frameworks: Support Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) and help embed risk management tools, frameworks and processes across the business.
• Turn risk data into insight: Monitor risk performance, identify trends and prepare clear reporting and insights for divisional risk discussions and decision-making.
• Support supplier risk and governance: Provide specialist advice across supplier risk and governance processes, helping ensure appropriate controls and oversight are in place.
• Build risk capability: Design and deliver practical operational risk and compliance training that helps stakeholders confidently manage risk in their day-to-day roles.
• Keep our risk information on track: Maintain accurate information within Lendi Group’s risk management system and support broader risk and compliance initiatives as required.

• What You’ll Bring:
  • 3+ years’ experience in risk and compliance within consumer lending, credit assistance, mortgage broking or a related financial services environment.
  • Strong understanding of relevant Australian regulatory obligations, including the National Consumer Credit Protection Act, Privacy Act and AML/CTF requirements.
  • Hands-on experience in control design, development and testing.
  • Experience identifying, assessing and managing operational and compliance risks, incidents and issues.
  • Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to provide pragmatic risk advice while considering customer and business outcomes.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with confidence engaging and constructively challenging stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk matters into clear, practical advice.
  • A proactive and adaptable mindset, with an interest in finding smarter ways to manage risk.
• Nice to Haves:
  • Experience with RCSAs, risk appetite frameworks and risk management systems.
  • Exposure to supplier / third-party risk and governance.
  • Experience designing or delivering risk and compliance training.
  • Exposure to automation, AI or technology-enabled approaches to risk and control management.
  • Relevant degree or professional qualification.

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. Bringing together diverse expertise, innovative technology and a customer-first approach, our teams work seamlessly to simplify the property journey, helping Australians find, buy and own property with confidence.

We support our people in a variety of ways, but a few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture.
• Hybrid working arrangement designed to support work-life balance, while fostering meaningful connection and collaboration.
• A holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work.
• generous paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 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.
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety.

We’re committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community at Lendi Group. We believe that a team reflecting the world around us leads to greater innovation, stronger collaboration, and a more engaging workplace.

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 attract, engage and evolve talent and build best-in-class products.

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.