2025 Risk Graduate Program (Feb 2025)

Make a difference as a Risk Graduate with IAG.  

Join the largest insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We’re here for you. Are you ready?  

The role

A unique opportunity to kickstart your career and help make your world safer, bigger, and bolder!

We have a range of Risk teams for you to be exposed to including:  

• Enterprise Risk & Operations (ER&O)
• Cyber & Protective Services (CPS)
• Compliance & Regulatory Engagement (CARE)
• Operational Risk & Assurance (OR&A)
• Direct Insurance Australia (DIA) Risk, Intermediated Insurance Australia (IIA) Risk and New Zealand (NZ) Risk
• Chief Underwriting Office (CUO)

We’re seeking attentive, collaborative, people-focused graduates to complement our wonderful risk teams. A Graduate with the right attitude, loves problem-solving and can design and execute creative solutions. Graduates will have a buddy in each team rotation.

Group risk is an integral part of our business and oversees our approach to risk management with reference to roles and responsibilities, frameworks and policies, and the risk governance relationship between the board, board committees and senior management.  

Group Risk is on an exciting journey following a multi-million dollar risk transformation program. As we embed industry-leading risk management practices, you will have the opportunity to contribute towards our vision where:

• We aim to be a trusted business partner and advisor supporting IAG to navigate uncertainty, deliver strategic outcomes and play to win with confidence.
• We will help IAG to actively manage risk with a positive risk culture and a contemporary risk management model that balances risks and opportunities and gives the business confidence to pursue its goals reliably and within risk appetite.
• We will do this as “One IAG Group Risk team” delivering expert capability through an engagement model orientated around the business. 

As a Risk Graduate, you’ll have exposure to the following:

• Ensuring IAG has appropriate frameworks, governance, policies and tools to achieve its strategic objectives within the Board approved risk appetite
• Protecting IAG people, places and systems against cyber, physical and internal fraud threats and ensuring IAG has the right level of operational resilience to respond to any crisis situation
• IAG’s compliance strategy and our regulators to ensure that IAG has clear and cogent compliance frameworks in place
• Governing Insurance Risk across the Group via the Chief Underwriting Office - this area also issues the divisional underwriting licences, and advises on portfolio management, underwriting and pricing across IAG

About you

• You model a ready for anything mindset
• You’re a driven, enthusiastic team player
• You’re passionate about making the world a safer place 

Requirements

• A university degree or higher (from 2022-2024) or be in your penultimate year of a relevant degree with graduation expected by the end of 2024 - Risk, Commerce, Economics, Business, Finance, Communications or Engineering disciplines
• An average B- achievement (65%+), and
• Are a New Zealand and/or Australian citizen or a New Zealand permanent resident  

About us

IAG is not only the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, underwriting over $AUD14 billion of premium per annum, we’re also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life’s moments hit hardest.    

You’ll know our brands – CGU, WFI, NRMA Insurance, AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.  

When you join IAG, you’re not joining one brand. You’re joining a large purpose-led, Trans-Tasman group dedicated to making your world a safer place.    

We’re ready to grow your career, acknowledge every part of you, recognise your brilliance, lead you with purpose and help you live your own purpose through us.  

 At IAG you can enjoy  

• Up to 50% off motor and home insurance
• Flexible work and leave options
• Various corporate partner discounts, and
• A people-focused culture that celebrates achievements big and small. 

Don’t tick all the boxes but you’re still excited about this opportunity?  

If that's you, we encourage you to still apply as you may just be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities.  

We acknowledge Tāngata Whenua in Aotearoa and are committed to growing Māori prosperity and well-being in Aotearoa through He Rautaki Māori (IAG’s Māori Strategy).

We’re ready for you. Apply today.