Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and functionally accountable to the Board, the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) provides independent oversight and strategic leadership of BankVic’s risk management, compliance, and financial crime functions. The CRO leads a team of eight across enterprise risk and compliance, coordinates the Board Risk Committee, and manages regulatory relationships with APRA, AUSTRAC, and ASIC. The role carries accountability as an Accountable Person under the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) and as BankVic’s AML/CTF Compliance Officer. This is not a transformation mandate – frameworks are established and the risk culture is strong – but the CRO must be a genuine enabler of BankVic’s continued growth, providing independent challenge at executive level while keeping the business moving forward safely. The CRO contributes as a full peer on the Executive Leadership Team and must be as comfortable in a board room as they are working alongside a lean, hands-on team.

You are an experienced risk executive with a genuine banking background, ideally having served as a CRO or equivalent senior risk leader within a complex financial services institution. Your board-level presence is established – you present with credibility, coordinate effectively with board committees, and manage regulatory relationships with APRA, AUSTRAC, and ASIC without difficulty. You understand the distinction between risk management and compliance enforcement, and you approach the risk function as a strategic partner to the business rather than a gatekeeper. Pragmatic and commercially grounded, you filter material risk from background noise and provide constructive, independent challenge at executive level without creating friction. You are tertiary qualified in risk, finance, accounting or a related discipline, with postgraduate qualifications preferred. Critically, you are genuinely aligned to a purpose-led, member-owned organisation, and are comfortable operating within such an organisation’s associated scale, processes and culture.