Director – Digital & IT Risk

About Baringa

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our growing Australian Financial Services practice is looking for an experienced IT Risk Director to join our team. Your specialisation may include IT, digital, cyber, cloud, data and AI or a combination of these significant and emerging areas of risk and governance.

What You Will Be Doing

You will be playing a lead role in shaping, leading and delivering IT risk and regulatory engagements with our financial services clients, where areas of work will likely include:

• Being a trusted advisor to CTOs, CISOs, COOs and CROs.
• Uplifting IT, cyber, cloud, data and 3rd party risk and governance frameworks.
• Optimising use of GRC Platforms and interrogation of the data held within them.
• Helping our clients uplift their maturity in complying with important regulations like CPS234, CPS230, CPG235, SOCI and outsourcing involving cloud.
• Working closely with our UK and US colleagues to provide global perspectives on similar regulations like DORA and GDPR.
• Helping our clients to utilise and govern their AI solutions responsibly.
• Providing independent Tech Risk oversight and advice on large transformation projects.
• Helping Technology divisions to achieve better ROI from their Agile, PACE, SecOps, DevSecOps and controls automation investments.
• Helping our clients to uplift and transform their Non-Financial Risk control frameworks or to deliver their complex regulatory change programs.
• Using data and analytics, ML, LLM and Gen AI to uplift risk and governance processes.

As we are a growing business in Australia, you will also have the opportunity to play a lead role in:

• Business development and client relationship management.
• Helping us to create our thought leadership in emerging risk areas of IT, Cyber, Data and AI.
• Participating in relevant industry forums in your areas of expertise.
• Working with our global technology, risk and regulation experts to share and leverage expertise across global tech regulation.
• Help us to build a thriving business in Australia.

Experience

Your skills and experience

• It is essential that you have demonstrable consulting experience operating at a senior level.
• You may also have worked within financial services or the technology or risk divisions supporting those services.
• At Director level, you will have a rich and varied collection of projects to draw from, that you have successfully shaped, directed and delivered.
• You are considered an expert in your chosen specialisations and enjoy coaching your teams and sharing your knowledge with clients.

Skills

• You have deep expertise in more than one of these specialisations: Technology Risk, Digital Risk, ITGC controls, IT frameworks and operating models, Tech Reg, Cyber Risk, Data Risk, AI Risk, Cloud Governance, GRC platforms optimisation, 3rd party and supplier risk management, technical assurance of transformation projects, IT and Cyber audit and assurance.
• You understand and can advise clients on the Australian regulatory landscape as it relates to technology regulations such as CPS234, CPS230, CPG235, SOCI, CPS 220, outsourcing involving cloud.
• You have worked with best practice frameworks like NIST, ISO27000, ITIL, Prince2 and Agile
• You are an excellent communicator with good presentation skills.
• You are curious and a great listener who takes the time to fully understand and help solve your clients’ issues.
• You are a team player who loves building and maintaining strong and capable teams.
• You have experience in coaching others to bring out their best.
• You have the skills but you are now searching for a better culture.

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Benefits

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.