Risk & Assurance Lead

Job Title

Risk & Assurance Lead

Job Description Summary

The Risk and Assurance Lead provides senior risk-informed assurance, change leadership, and advisory support, with a strong focus on driving change initiatives, special projects, and priority work that supports leadership decision-making. The role requires strong commercial and operational acumen, end-to-end ownership, confidence in managing ambiguity, and the ability to remain effective as priorities evolve.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role will take ownership from problem definition through to execution, follow-through, and stakeholder communication. It will support the function lead by shaping approaches, coordinating cross-functional inputs, preparing senior-ready outputs, and proactively progressing work across changing business priorities.

Job Description

About the Role:

• Lead the design, enhancement, and execution of complex, high‑impact risk‑informed assurance reviews, setting expectations for depth, quality, and insight.
• Deliver senior‑level, decision‑grade outputs that clearly articulate issues, evidence, impacts, and options for management consideration.
• Act as a trusted risk partner to senior business and functional stakeholders, providing advisory input on risk exposure, trade‑offs, and mitigation approaches.
• Drive the development, standardization, and continuous improvement of assurance frameworks, methodologies, and quality standards.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or a related discipline; professional certification is strongly preferred.
• Typically 7–10 years of relevant experience, or equivalent capability gained through senior roles in risk management, assurance, audit, compliance, or a regulated professional environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross‑functional assurance activities with significant business or stakeholder impact.
• Strong advisory capability, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders through insight and judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, suitable for senior management and governance forums.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities, balancing structure with flexibility, and proactively keeping work moving without close supervision.
• Strong ownership mindset, sound judgment, and proactive follow-through, with the ability to support leadership on priority initiatives beyond routine BAU activity.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from:

• Being part of a growing global company.

• Career development and a promote from within culture.

• An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program. 

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.  

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. As part of our ongoing commitment to RAP, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island Islanders are highly encouraged to join us! (For AUS only)

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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