March 2022 E-Newsletter

29 March, 2022

A Message from our Executive Director

March is Membership Renewal month

Individual Memberships are due for renewal by 31st March 2022. Current Individual Memberships will remain at $60 (GST inclusive) until 31st March 2022 with their 2021/2022 membership expiring on this date.

All renewals after 31st March 2022, or if you are an employee of an Institutional Member and not already an RMA Australia member, you can join as an Individual Member of RMA Australia for just $65 inclusive of GST from 1st April 2022.

As an Individual Member of RMA Australia, your annual membership ($65 inclusive of GST) gets you:

– Access to 20 webinar/face to face events per year

– Opportunity to network with your industry colleagues

– Build your professional profile

– Access to RMA HQ materials

– On-demand library of current risk topics

When you attend an RMA Australia webinar, you join 200+ risk colleagues for a one-hour session on a current topic with some of Australia’s most senior risk professionals. You get access to their information and have the opportunity to ask questions and rate the event via our LIVE Q & A and poll feature.

In addition to this, if you cannot attend a webinar, you can access the content via the Members Only section on our website. Here, you will find a library of content available to you to absorb at any time to further your professional development.

Our annual International Women’s Day this month, hosted by Westpac, focused on the important topic of Financial Abuse and Family and Domestic Violence. Catherine Thrum, Chief Risk Officer, Group Functions and Services, Westpac and RMA Australian Board Director, moderated the event, asking some of the tough questions on what role can Financial Institutions play in Financial Abuse and Family and Domestic Violence. Thanks to our presenters, Carolyn Bond AO, Economic Abuse Reference Group and Tasha Chye, Westpac for sharing their experience working with family and domestic violence victims.

We are now looking ahead to our April webinar events. To ensure you don’t miss out on any of these webinars and other events, renew your membership and register by clicking on the REGISTER VIA OUR WEBSITE link below.

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Richard Gilbert

Executive Director

Spotlight on: Zeynep Turesin Soylu

We recently caught up with Zeynep Turesin Soylu, Associate Director, TPRM, KPMG and Events Sub Committee member. Here’s what she had to say on her risk career and the challenges facing risk professionals in our industry.

What are your role’s 3 – 4 primary tasks as Associate Director, TPRM, KPMG?

As a leader in KPMG, my primary role is to:

Provide value for our clients to manage, optimise or mitigate risks and build a strong, business-aligned risk framework for sustainable growth.
As new tools and technologies are constantly disrupting industries, utilise innovation as a key differentiator to drive better solutions to our clients and enable well-informed organisational decisions.
Connect locally and globally to enable experience sharing and learning from each other to utilise this collected knowledge and skill set to build better solutions and up to date insights.
Invest in our people and create market luminaries who are known trusted advisors in our market.

What attracted you to the RMA Australia Events Sub Committee (ESC)?

I am an avid learner and a huge advocate for continuous learning. I always aim to connect the dots between my personal growth journey and organisational strategy to contribute to business results while improving my skills. I believe RMA events are a great way to provide these opportunities to our members. I am amazed by my peers on the committee and their dedication to providing up to date insights about risk management matters.

You are hosting an upcoming RMA Australia webinar on “Outlook in Third-Party Risk Management”, what can members expect on this webinar?

Our session will discuss the upcoming challenges and priorities across Third-Party Risk Management, utilising KPMG’s recent Global Survey on TPRM Outlook 2022. Our panellists will deep dive into learnings from the global survey, utilising multiple lenses across the supply chain, ESG, technology and forensics.

In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges facing Risk professionals in our industry?

We can name many challenges, from evolving risk landscape to regulatory changes or ongoing impacts of Covid disruptions. However, I believe the biggest challenge facing Risk professionals is maintaining a balancing act between business partnering and driving sound risk decisions in the organisations. We should learn to champion positive change.

What are RMA Australia’s biggest challenges in 2022?

I would hesitate to call this a challenge because I know Board is working tirelessly around this: To continue innovating and finding better ways to support members for growth. As we are remerging from Covid and its long-lasting implications, we need to utilise all learnings and drive efficient learning, networking and experience sharing opportunities.

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