Senior Advisor Risk & Assurance
About this role
Westgold Resources is shaping the future of gold mining in Western Australia. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team who shares our vision of building a sustainable and profitable major Australian gold business.
Westgold Resources is seeking an experienced Senior Advisor Risk & Assurance to join our Perth Head Office team on a permanent full-time basis.
Reporting to the Group Manager Safety & Training, you will play a critical role in supporting and enhancing Westgold's enterprise risk, critical risk management and assurance frameworks. Working across multiple business functions, you will provide practical risk advice, facilitate risk assessments, oversee assurance activities and support informed decision-making at all levels of the organisation.
This is an opportunity to influence strategic outcomes, partner with senior leaders and help strengthen risk management capability across a growing and dynamic mining business.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of Westgold's Risk Management Framework.
- Facilitate risk assessments, workshops and reviews across operational and corporate functions.
- Monitor material risks, emerging risks and key control performance.
- Coordinate and support integrated assurance and verification activities.
- Develop meaningful risk reporting, key risk indicators and management insights.
- Provide practical risk advice to support operational, project and strategic decision-making.
- Support executive and board reporting requirements.
- Build organisational capability through coaching, training and stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, regulators and assurance providers.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance risk and assurance performance across the business.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Risk Management, Business, Commerce, Engineering, Safety or a related discipline.
- Significant experience in risk management, assurance, governance or critical risk management.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise risk frameworks, assurance methodologies and governance principles.
- Experience facilitating risk workshops and engaging with senior stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- The ability to influence outcomes and provide practical, commercially focused advice.
- Experience within mining, resources or another complex and highly regulated industry.
- Strong capability in reporting, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement.
Why Join Westgold?
At Westgold, you'll join a values-driven organisation focused on safety, accountability and performance. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with experienced leaders, contribute to business-critical initiatives and play a key role in strengthening risk and assurance maturity across the organisation.
The Westgold Offer:
A permanent full-time position at a successful gold producer
A range of benefits including:
Performance based bonus
Group salary continuous insurance
A health and wellness allowance Health insurance discount
A range of Family and Medical leave policies that includes IVF, surrogacy and adoption.
Referral Bonus - bring your mates along!
5 years' pro rata long service leave
Salary sacrifice options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that include free confidential counselling, wellbeing services that includes financial advice.
Our full list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by Work 180 can be seen on the Work180 website.
Westgold is driven by our core values of Show Respect, Choose Safety and Deliver Value. We believe that these values define our culture, behaviours and actions. We appreciate that not everybody will tick every box for their next dream role, but if you believe that you can bring the passion and drive to contribute to our operations and our values resonate with you then apply now!
Candidates must meet our pre-employment criteria’s which includes medical and drug and alcohol screening, relevant right to work checks and be able to provide a valid Australian national police clearance and an Australian driver’s licence (or be able to obtain).
Westgold is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone matters. We believe diversity is a strength and true diversity includes those from First Nations People, various cultures, age groups, Neurodiverse backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, diverse abilities and religions. We value the unique perspectives and experiences each person brings and that diverse teams leads to innovation and success. Our goal is to have safe and respectful environments where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and we strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Westgold appreciates that standard recruitment processes are not accessible for everyone. If you believe you require additional support or accommodations, so you feel comfortable participating in our recruitment process for this or any of our roles, please feel free to email inclusion@westgold.com.au
Westgold reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. We will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.