Senior Risk & Compliance Specialist

Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 12 Oct 2026 11:59pm Job Title Senior Risk & Compliance Specialist Job Summary Job Description Who We Are Connect with Telstra. We’re all about helping our customers connect faster, better and smarter. And that’s where you come in, to help us realise our purpose to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. About the Role This Senior Risk & Compliance Specialist role supports a future-focused assurance capability that is risk-based, practical, consistent, and aligned to Telstra’s compliance and risk objectives. The role challenges traditional and manual ways of working, helping shift assurance from reactive activity toward more streamlined, automated, and predictive approaches. This role helps shape, mature and continuously improve how Telstra plans, delivers and learns from Assurance, across Risk and Compliance. It supports Telstra’s Compliance and Assurance Centre of Expertise (COE) which is part of the 2nd Line of Defence to set the assurance agenda, maintain the company’s assurance framework, guide business functions on execution and contribute to the annual assurance plan. It brings an end-to-end view of obligations, controls, assurance activity, issues, reporting, and improvement actions so assurance is connected to broader compliance outcomes, not managed as a silo. What We Offer Performance-related pay Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up Global presence across 22 countries Purchased annual leave scheme Additional Telstra day off Additional 30% off Telstra products and services Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for) What You’ll Do Assurance strategy and agenda: Support the Compliance and Assurance COE to define how assurance should operate across Telstra, including the assurance agenda, framework review, methodology, standards, guidance and reusable artefacts. Annual assurance planning: Contribute to the annual assurance plan by assessing risk, compliance priorities, control maturity, historical findings and assurance coverage to recommend where effort should be focused across Telstra. Execution guidance: Guide business functions on how to execute assurance consistently and proportionately, including planning, scoping, evidence expectations, testing approach, reporting and management action tracking. Targeted assurance support: Deliver or support targeted assurance activity where specialist input, independent challenge or deeper review is required, while avoiding unnecessary duplication with Line 1 or other assurance providers. Operational excellence uplift: Review end-to-end assurance and compliance workflows to simplify processes, reduce waste, improve handoffs, shorten cycle times, improve data quality and lift the usefulness of outputs. Manual to automated: Identify practical opportunities to reduce manual testing, automate repeatable checks, streamline evidence capture and make assurance easier for control…