Senior Internal Auditor – Distribution and Operations (6 months FTC)

• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions. 
• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times. 
• Take advantage of well-being initiatives designed to support your mental and physical health, ensuring a balanced lifestyle 

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do.  

At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Daiichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be.

This role plays a vital part in strengthening trust, transparency and decision‑making across TAL by delivering insightful audit reviews that support better business outcomes. Working across a diverse range of business units, you’ll partner closely with senior leaders to provide meaningful insights that help safeguard our customers, our people and our purpose. As a trusted voice within the organisation, you’ll also help evolve internal audit practices and frameworks, ensuring they continue to add value and support TAL in delivering on its promise to protect what matters most.

In this role you will:

• Deliver high‑quality internal audits that provide clear insight into business risk and control effectiveness
• Identify and articulate impactful findings that support stronger decision‑making and risk management
• Influence senior stakeholders through confident communication of audit outcomes and insights
• Drive accountability by validating actions taken to address audit findings and strengthen controls
• Provide meaningful visibility of audit outcomes and themes to support organisational assurance
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal audit practices and frameworks across TAL

• Brings a solid foundation in internal or external audit, supported by relevant tertiary and/or professional qualifications (e.g. CA, CPA, CIA or similar)
• Applies a strong understanding of financial services risk and regulation to deliver practical, value‑adding insight
• Builds trusted relationships through a collaborative, people‑focused approach and clear, confident communication
• Thinks analytically and stays curious, asking thoughtful questions to get beneath the surface while remaining open and constructive
• Works independently and proactively, managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes with confidence
• Demonstrates professional resilience and maturity, responding positively to challenge, feedback and differing perspectives

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  

• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  

• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 

• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.  

• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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