Title:  Senior Risk Advisor

• Strategic Influence – Advise senior leaders and shape enterprise-wide risk strategy.
• High Visibility – Work closely with the ELT, Board, and Audit & Risk Committee.
• Enterprise Scope – Influence risk outcomes across diverse operations and assets.
• Collaborative Culture – Join a values-led, inclusive, and supportive team.

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family. 

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

About the role

As Senior Risk Advisor, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping AusNet’s risk culture and capability. You’ll partner with senior leaders across the business to deliver strategic and tactical risk management, helping protect and grow value by anticipating and managing material risks.

This is a high-impact role where your insights and leadership will help embed risk awareness into decision-making and drive continuous improvement across our operations.

• Connect the dots – Identify key risks and opportunities aligned with strategic objectives.
• Be the business partner of choice – Develop and monitor Risk & Assurance Plans in collaboration with business units.
• Enable excellence in risk outcomes – Recommend sustainable actions to address control deficiencies and manage risks within appetite.
• Uplift risk culture and capability – Coach leaders to embed risk awareness in everyday decisions.
• Add risk value – Provide insights on emerging themes, threats, and opportunities.
• Lead company-wide initiatives – Drive implementation of risk programs and practices across AusNet.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for someone with a strong mix of experience, insight, and influence. You don’t need to tick every box, but a great candidate will likely have:

• A degree in engineering, law, business, or accounting (or similar).
• 7+ years’ experience in risk leadership roles within Energy, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, or Telco sectors.
• Deep understanding of ISO 31000 risk management principles.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
• Experience in enterprise-wide risk management and assurance processes.

Please note, we will not be engaging in Recruitment agencies for this role, please apply directly!

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.