About Avant

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.

Avant now represents 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.

As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.

About Doctors’ Health Fund

Doctors’ Health Fund (est. 1977) is a restricted private health insurer; the only health fund in Australia that exclusively serves the medical community and their families.
We are one of Australia’s fastest growing health funds and now cover more than 46,000 lives.

Proudly part of the Avant Mutual Group, Australia's leading Medical Defence Organisation,we are owned by doctors, not shareholders. We support the medical community by offering
quality health covers and exceptional member service. We align our values to the profession by advocating for freedom of choice and clinical independence, while only supporting medically-evidenced treatments and therapies.

We operate nationally with our head office in Sydney. As a wholly member-centric organisation, dedication to our members is embedded in our values, mission, people and culture.

About the Role
We have an opportunity available for a Risk Analyst to join our Doctors Health Fund 1st Line Risk team.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about pursuing a career within Risk and helping drive risk maturity across the business

Key Challenges

As the business continues to develop in their risk maturity, and regulators continue to refine and enforce the obligations of the business, the incumbent will be required to pay significant consideration to compliance, while applying a critical lens to their work to
identify root cause and control gaps/weaknesses. They will require emotional intelligence to effectively engage with various stakeholders within the business and wider Avant group.

Key accountabilities:

• Facilitating periodic risk and control self-assessments, and supporting control owners to uplift the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment.
• Assisting in identifying and capturing incidents and issues, including performing risk assessments, root cause analysis and supporting the development and completion of action plans.
• Track and manage all open action items, providing guidance and support to appropriately address.
• Maintaining DHF’s vendor/contracts register and policies register.
• Support the team in preparation of risk reporting, governance forums and analysis.

To be successful you will have

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce, Finance, Law or an associated discipline (includes applicants in 2nd year of tertiary studies or later)
• 1-2 years plus financial services (preferably Insurance) experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience ·
• Financial acumen
• Commercial thinking
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to work independently
• Project and time management
• Intermediate Excel, Word and Power Point

Why work at Avant?

At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.

We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.

Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.

We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

For further information, please contact our Careers team at careers@avant.org.au.

Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer. Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.