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Principal Risk and Compliance
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Permanent, Full time
MinRes can offer you!
- Work closely with the Board and Senior Leadership, having a significant impact on business growth
- We invest in your career, with a focus on leadership, upskilling, training and development programs
- Live Your Best Life! Our benefits offer you access to deals, support and discounts to help you unlock the important things in Life – Health, Family, Recreation and Your Future with MinRes
The Opportunity
Acting as the technical expert in risk management, you will provide specialist advice, drive high‑quality practices and uplift capability across the business. As a trusted advisor to the Board, Executive and operational leaders, you will protect and create value through risk expertise, insights, oversight, challenge and support in creating a strong risk culture and sustainable outcomes.
Reporting to the Manager - Risk & Compliance, you will partner with business units, shared services and site operations to deliver best‑practice risk governance, effective control environments and meaningful risk insights to inform strategic decision‑making.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert advice on the Risk Management Framework to the broader business
- Delivery of Corporate and Site Risk Workshops, acting as a Risk Business Partner for select parts of the business
- Driving Positive Risk Culture
- Monitor risk performance, capability and culture to support sustainable risk outcomes
- Apply a deep understanding of the risk framework, including risk appetite, governance, process and systems
- Undertake Risk Analysis across a wide range of areas
- Provide the business guidance on control design, implementation and monitoring activities
- Support GRC System uplift project and roll-out
- Coach and Train business and Risk team members
- Support the Manager Risk in strategic risk projects and broader framework reviews
- Lead the preparation of high-quality risk reports, dashboards and thematic analyses for Executive and Board Committees
What is required
- Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Law, Commerce or related fields highly regarded or substantial experience in risk management
- Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management frameworks, preferably aligned to ISO 31000
- Demonstrated experience within risk management in a Senior position within complex environments, with experience or exposure to the Mining, Mining Services, Construction or Resource sectors highly regarded
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement abilities, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience developing risk methodologies, tools or frameworks
- Demonstrated experience in operational improvement initiatives and working with risk management systems and data analytics tools
- Exceptional report writing skills including board reporting
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making abilities
- Strong project management skills with the ability to work in a dynamic environment
About Mineral Resources
MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX’s best-performing companies since listing in 2006.
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