Senior Internal Auditor

Join Australian Retirement Trust as our Senior Internal Auditor. You'll deliver independent assurance across governance, risk and control environments while helping strengthen organisational resilience. Working across complex and varied audits, you'll provide insights, pragmatic recommendations, and support continuous improvement across the business. Great opportunity to apply your audit expertise in a purpose-driven organisation that supports Australians in preparing for retirement.

Description
We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Senior Internal Auditor, you'll support the delivery of high-quality, independent and objective assurance across governance, risk management and control environments. You'll play a key role in delivering the annual audit plan, helping strengthen governance practices, safeguarding critical systems and data, and ensuring the organisation continues to meet its regulatory obligations.

You'll work across a diverse range of audits and reviews, partnering with stakeholders to identify emerging risks, evaluate controls, and recommend practical improvements. Your ability to balance risk, commercial outcomes and stakeholder needs will help drive sustainable improvements and strengthen organisational resilience.

Internal Audit is entering an exciting period of growth, with several new roles being created to support the continued development of the function. Joining now offers the opportunity to help shape a growing team, contribute to meaningful work, and be part of the function's future success.

This role is a permanent opportunity and is based in Brisbane or Sydney.

Responsibilities
Day to day, you'll:

• Support the planning, execution and reporting of complex risk-based internal audits across a range of business areas.
• Deliver multiple audits and reviews concurrently while maintaining high quality outcomes.
• Identify control weaknesses, emerging risks and improvement opportunities.
• Provide balanced, pragmatic and risk-based recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across the business and proactively share insights.
• Monitor and follow up audit actions to support effective remediation and control uplift.
• Assess evidence supporting issue closure and constructively challenge proposed actions where required.
• Contribute to a positive risk and compliance culture through audits, risk assessments and project involvement.

Qualifications
It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Business, Law or a related discipline.
• Your professional certification may include CA, CPA, CIA, CISA or CISSP.
• You'll bring a strong understanding of audit standards, risk management frameworks and regulatory requirements including APRA and ASIC.
• You're experienced in audit methodologies, testing procedures and audit tools.
• You demonstrate strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Your ability to work collaboratively enables you to build trusted stakeholder relationships.You'll be highly regarded if you have experience within financial services, superannuation, insurance, financial planning or funds management.
• You're able to quickly understand legislation and standards relating to superannuation, insurance, risk and compliance.

Why join us?
Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people.

By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.

About us
Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of around $375 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 6th September 2026.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.