Risk Management Jobs in Australia

Risk managers are responsible for advising organisations on any potential risks to either their profitability or to the existence of the company. They do this by identifying and assessing threats, developing plans for if anything was to go wrong and working to avoid, minimise or transfer risks. Risk managers may specialise in a wide variety of areas including corporate governance, enterprise risk, operational and regulatory risk, information and security risk, business continuity, market and credit risk and technology risk.
They are responsible for assessing and managing risk to not only the organisation, but also its customers, employees, assets, reputation and the interests of various stakeholders. Their first step is to assess risk - which involves not only analysing risks but also estimating and describing them. Then they will perform a risk evaluation, where they will compare their estimated risks with pre-established criteria like legal requirements and costs, also evaluating the company's previous handling of similar risks. Risk managers also need to determine an organisation's 'risk appetite', which refers to the level of risk they are prepared to accept. They then need to structure their reports in appropriate ways for various audiences. For example, the business heads may only need to be made aware of risks directly relevant to their part of the business, while the board of directors will need to be made aware of the most significant, overall risks.

72% of current opportunities are permanent, whereas 28% are contract jobs.

96% of the live vacancies are full-time, however 4% of them are part-time positions.

There are 3,007 Risk Management job vacancies in Australia available immediately, compared to 1,380 in New South Wales.