Vendor Risk & Assurance Manager

The role

The Vendor Risk & Assurance Manager will own the supplier governance, risk, and assurance framework. You will partner with the business and suppliers to identify risk, monitor performance, and manage vendor relationships.

What you will do

• Own and strengthen the supplier governance and assurance framework.
• Lead supplier due diligence, risk assessments, monitoring, and assurance activities.
• Monitor supplier performance, service levels, and emerging risks.
• Oversee supplier issues, escalations, remediation activities, and exit plans.
• Partner across Procurement, Risk and Compliance, Cyber Security, and Technology.
• Embed and manage the vendor risk management system and vendor register.

Required qualifications

• Experience in third party risk management, supplier assurance, vendor governance, operational risk or a closely related discipline.
• Strong working knowledge of APRA CPS 230, outsourcing and operational resilience expectations.
• Hands on experience with supplier due diligence, risk assessments, evidence reviews, treatment plans, remediation and ongoing monitoring.
• Ability to assess supplier criticality and materiality and turn findings into recommendations, escalations and management reporting.
• Confident communicator who can work with senior stakeholders and drive accountability.
• Experience with vendor risk management systems, governance platforms or supplier registers.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Fully funded school holiday program
• CU Health (virtual healthcare)
• Income protection
• Flu shots
• Wellness weeks
• Retail discounts
• Financial wellbeing services
• Social events, trivia nights, and corporate sports
• Paid volunteering
• End-of-trip amenities (Melbourne)
• Daily breakfast (Melbourne)

About the company

Netwealth is an Australian FinTech business that provides an award-winning platform and NextGen technology for advisers and investors.