Our client’s success is our success. And you make it happen! 

Payment systems are complex, regulated and everchanging. We are an established market leading brand who are focused on driving client growth. We’re at the forefront of innovation punching above our weight. We’re enabling the future for our clients through innovative technology like the New Payments Platform (NPP) and open banking.   
 
We are a listed public company (ASX:CCL) and one of five licensed banks in Australia with full direct connectivity and production capability across all domestic payment systems. Whilst the major banks leverage this capability for their consumer and business clients, our B2B model focuses on enabling other banks, fintech’s and corporates to deliver innovative and competitive payment and digital solutions to their clients and customers. 

We are looking for a Manager, Operational Risk to join our 2nd Line Group Risk and Compliance Team on a 12 Month Contract. 

This is a highly visible role in the business and will be responsible for the operational oversight of Operational Risk across five key areas: 

1) Framework Development 

• Design, enhance, implement and own the Operational Risk Management Framework in line with the Cuscal’s regulatory requirements (e.g. APRA’s CPS 230), industry best practices and operating environment in line with three lines of defence  

• Ensure line 2 risk management capability is built and sustained to review, challenge, oversight and assurance reinforcing line 1 accountability with the business owners 

• Develop and maintain comprehensive operational risk metrics, policies, and procedures. 

2) Risk Transformation 

• Play a crucial role as the Operational Risk SME in Program Diamond to ensure that the risk framework design is fit for purpose and suitable to Cuscal’s business and operational environment and ways of working.  

• This would involve looking at the end-to-end risk value chain and transform how we manage risks across 3LoD from a people, process and technology perspective 

3) Business Risk Advisory 

• Review and challenge risk/RiC assessments, adequacy and effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies, controls, and action plans implemented by 1st line teams.  

• Critically assess incidents, breaches, and near misses to identify systemic issues and recommend appropriate remediation actions. 

• Ensure the continuous improvement of risk management practices by engaging with business units to provide constructive feedback and challenge assumptions.  

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and business units on operational risk matters, including emerging risks, regulatory changes, and industry trends. 

• Drive education and training programs to elevate operational risk awareness and capabilities across the organisation.  

• Collaborate with product, client, and technology teams to ensure operational risk considerations are integrated into new initiatives, system changes, and major projects. 

4) Oversight and Monitoring 

• Oversee the implementation of key risk indicators (KRIs), risk control metrics, and performance dashboards to monitor our operational risk exposure on an ongoing basis.  

• Prepare data driven risk reports for executive committees, providing clear and actionable insights into key operational risks, trends, and emerging issues. 

• Oversee incident and issue management and remediation, including timely escalation, root cause analysis, and lessons learned. 

5) Risk Governance 

• Oversee, monitor and maintain standards/processes to ensure risk system integrity   

• Develop Operational risk reporting to relevant committee forums, ensuring risk information is data driven, comprehensive, accurate, and insightful. 

• Work closely with internal audit and compliance functions to ensure a coordinated approach to risk management and control assurance.  

• Maintain and update risk governance documents, including terms of reference for committees and support risk committees as required. 

About You 
To be successful in this position you will have the following skills and experience: 

• 5+ years of experience in Operational Risk management within the finance and banking industry  

• Solid understanding of relevant laws and regulations, industry codes, standards, prudential requirements 

• Demonstrated experience in operational risk and compliance roles, in the financial services sector, including the design and implementation of effective risk and compliance management frameworks, and a sound knowledge of APRA prudential standards.    

• Demonstrated experience in building risk and compliance maturity and capability across the first and second lines of defence and experience/exposure to better industry practice   

• Strong inter-personal and communication skills with the ability to build effective workplace relationships.   

• Proficient in executing change management activities 

What’s it like to work here? 

As well as good pay and a great culture, we back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits. 

 
Next Step 
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let’s explore who you are and what drives you. We’d love to share our vision for the future of payments sector. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert. 
   
Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Cuscal employee, location or address. 

Your Career

As a Technical Sales Manager (TSM), you will work with your sales partner across ANZ and Asia to establish strong relationships with one or more target MSP/MSSP partners to offer Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SD-WAN/Prisma SASE to their customers, along with other products in our platform portfolio. You will bring a deep technical understanding of networking, routing, and cybersecurity managed services solutions. You will build trust with our MSP/MSSP partners and work with them to build SASE solutions that make their managed solutions more secure. Based on learnings from your customer base, you will provide valuable feedback and input to our product management teams on new feature requests and product improvements.

Your Impact

• Enable our MSP SD-WAN/SASE partners (Sales, Pre-Sales, Solution teams, and Delivery teams) on Palo Alto Networks products and solutions, including technical and value propositions, PoC/PoV, Pricing, Packaging, and lead the Sales governance orchestration.

• Architect and sell validated solutions for Palo Alto Networks MSP/MSSP partners to provide SD-WAN/SASE offerings to their customers as a managed service.

• Identify opportunities with prospective and current customers that can be served with PANW solutions.

• Work closely with the region sales leadership to support sales in a strategic and tactical manner.

• Use Case documents and assets for Demo & POC

• Assist Channel team to create Joint Annual and Quarterly targets - internal and external and tracking against it.

• Develop and nurture current and MSP/MSSP partners to drive growth.

• Act as the go-to technical adviser for Palo Alto Networks MSP/MSSP SD-WAN/SASE partners. 

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to MSP/MSSP partners’ sales, product, and engineering teams.

• Execute and manage Sales strategies with your Sales Account Manager and the MSP/MSSP partners.

• Ensure ongoing MSP/MSSP partner and their end customers’ satisfaction, support, and adoption of new PANW products and services.

• Effectively articulate PANW offerings market leadership.

• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills to manage interactions with customers and partners.

• Agility to work within small creative teams as well as cross-functional teams.

• Advocate of collaboration and teamwork

• Ambitious and can-do attitude.

• Pursue continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of  applicable technologies (Networking, SD-WAN, SASE, data centre, public cloud, cyber security, 5G, etc.)