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About Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Sugar Research Australia invests in and manages a portfolio of research, development and adoption projects that drive productivity, profitability and sustainability for the Australian sugarcane industry.

We have highly dedicated and passionate people working on industry-critical projects to deliver tangible value outcomes and impact for our industry stakeholders.

About the role

Reporting directly to the General Manager Finance & Operations, this position leads, advises on, maintains, and reports on SRA’s enterprise-wide audit, risk management, and business continuity frameworks. The position works closely with the Senior Management Team, the CEO and Chair of SRA’s Audit and Risk Committee, and broader management cohort to oversee the delivery of internal audits and risk management activities, including leadership of SRA’s quality assurance functions.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Participate as an effective member of the Finance & Operations management team to deliver on SRA’s strategic and financial objectives whilst building strong alignment, employee engagement, team ownership and accountability, across SRA and within the business unit.
• Manage key relationships with external Auditors and relevant stakeholders.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the SRA’s risk management framework to ensure that risk is minimised, mitigated, or encouraged, in line with the company’s risk appetite, across all business units.
• Provide advice and undertake regular reviews with risk owners to ensure the effectiveness (and documentation) of internal controls, and that management response across SRA’s risk management framework is appropriate and timely.
• Provide direction and support in relation to the administration, identification, measurement, control and review of strategic, operational, intellectual property and ICT risk registers, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose and integrated as part of day-to-day operations and strategies.
• Develop comprehensive audit plans, outlining the scope, objectives, and methodologies for each audit.
• Manage the quarterly review and reporting of SRA’s risk registers, including Senior Management Team engagement in relation to preparation of quarterly risk updates for the Audit and Risk Committee and the Board.
• Work with the Company Secretary to conduct annual reviews of SRA’s delegations to ensure they remain consistent with SRA’s internal control environment. Oversight of SRA’s Delegations’ documentation.
• Develop and provide training to employees on risk related matters and work with the senior management team to foster a culture of appropriate risk taking across SRA.
• Actively engage with regulators and Government stakeholders and operationalise regulatory requirements.
• To implement the Health, Safety and Environmental strategies, actions, & responsibilities which lead to attaining our desired HSE culture that is commensurate with the position.

About you

You will bring with you the following qualifications, capabilities and experience:

Essential

• At least three years’ experience in a Risk role, preferably with hands-on experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a business partnering capacity whilst maintaining essential independence.
• Demonstrated track record of influencing stakeholders from different backgrounds to drive risk-aware business outcomes.
• Significant experience in managing business continuity functions.
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills with demonstrated experience preparing and presenting risk reports to an executive and/ board.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a QA framework that enables business agility.
• A current manual driver’s licence is required to drive SRA vehicles.
• Tertiary qualification in risk or governance related discipline or significant applied experience as a risk management professional.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of cyber risk, intellectual property risk, and workplace health and safety risks.
• Graduate qualifications in risk management, compliance, or governance.

To apply

Please note this is a Fixed term role of 2 years.

Please copy and paste the following into your browser for the full position description: https://sugarresearch.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Internal-Audit-and-Risk-Manager-Position-Description.pdf

If your capabilities and experience meet the requirements of the role and you would like to be part of our dedicated team, please click ‘Apply’ to submit your application no later than Friday 7 March 2025. Your application should include your resume and address the requirements of the position.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia in order to apply. The successful applicant will also be required to undertake a medical screening and a police check.

• Join Australia’s leading university-based commercialisation company
• Apply your knowledge of mining and mineral processing to Create Change
• Drive the transformation of quality intellectual property into global impact

Are you UniQuest’s next dealmaker?

·        Do you have an interest in the translation of deep tech?

·        Do you have a passion for doing deals that solve industry problems?

·        Are you looking to thrive in a collaborative, supportive team environment?

UniQuest is Australia’s leading university commercialisation company. In partnership with UQ researchers, we create impact through the commercialisation of UQ intellectual property (IP). UniQuest’s track record and notable successes include UQ’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology used in most of the world’s MRI machines; and ResApp Health Ltd, a start-up company that was developing a smartphone technology to identify respiratory diseases. It was acquired by Pfizer Australia in 2022 for $A179 million. Marketed products containing UQ IP licensed by UniQuest have generated gross sales of more than A$73 billion, significantly contributing to societal and economic impact. 

Projects in the Physical Sciences portfolio at UniQuest are typically drawn from such disciplines as IT, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, science, and materials science. The common thread is a focus on scalable and sustainable projects leveraging UQ IP to deliver societal and economic impact to the global community.

This role is focused on UQ’s expertise in mining and minerals processing technology. It is linked to UQ’s participation in the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer, designed to promote the commercialisation of technology relevant to the energy transition.

UniQuest has a 2-year fixed term contract position available within the Physical Sciences team as a Director, Commercialisation. Join UniQuest as a Commercialisation Director, and you will:

·        Build strong relationships with world-renowned researchers from a university ranked in the world’s top 50;

·        Identify and champion new technologies with the potential to create commercially valuable intellectual property;

·        Lead business development activities and pitch to industry and venture capital firms;

·        Negotiate and close deals within a supported and proven framework; and

·        Effectively manage complex scenarios and the competing needs and interests of academic and industry utilising solid influence, persuasion, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated, where the opportunities are yours to create. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join Australia’s leading university commercialisation company.

Our Benefits

We offer a purpose driven role within a collaborative and supportive working environment, excellent benefits including salary packaging, flexible work, purchase leave options to name a few.

This position offers outstanding professional development experiences along with the opportunity to work in an experienced commercialisation team.

The role is based at UniQuest’s offices on UQ’s St Lucia campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

For a copy of the Position Description please visit our website.

For your application to be considered please apply via Seek. https://www.seek.com.au/job/82040820?tracking=SHR-WEB-SharedJob-anz-1

Applications close Monday 10 March 2025

The Company

UniQuest is the commercialisation company of The University of Queensland (UQ). In partnership with UQ researchers, we create impact through the commercialisation of UQ intellectual property (IP). Established in 1984, UniQuest’s commercialisation track record positions UQ as the leader of research commercialisation in Australasia. UniQuest has formed more than 130 start-up companies built on UQ IP. These companies have raised more than A$1 billion to advance UQ technologies towards the market and have directly created more than 450 new jobs. UniQuest’s track record and notable successes include UQ’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology used in most of the world’s MRI machines; and ResApp Health Ltd, a start-up company that was developing a smartphone technology to identify respiratory diseases. It was acquired by Pfizer Australia in 2022 for $A179 million. Marketed products containing UQ IP licensed by UniQuest have generated gross sales of more than A$73 billion, significantly contributing to societal and economic impact. UniQuest has also established the Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative (QEDDI), a world-class small molecule drug discovery and development group, dedicated to translating academic biomedical research into drug candidates for partnering.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading teaching and research universities and ranks among the world’s top universities according to several key independent rankings. More than 56,000 current students study at UQ, which has won more national teaching awards than any other Australian university. UQ’s research has global impact, delivered by an interdisciplinary community of more than 1500 researchers across six faculties, eight globally recognised research institutes and 100+ research centres.