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Company: Mercer Description: The Corporate Obligations Governance Leader is a senior leadership role reporting to the Mercer Pacific CFO and relevant program sponsors. This role partners with business and functional leaders to ensure compliance with key corporate obligations, including Modern Slavery, Health and Safety, WGEA, RAP, climate reporting, and other critical commitments. The leader will enable the organisation to achieve its strategic goals safely and sustainably through effective governance oversight. This position leads the Governance & Board Effectiveness stream of the Marsh Pacific Risk Transformation program and is a member of the Risk Transformation Project Leadership Team. The role is instrumental in supporting the Mercer Super (MSAL) Remediation Plan, driving risk maturity and risk culture uplift, and enabling accountability through the rollout and adoption of new Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) systems, policies, and frameworks. The Corporate Obligations Governance Leader will manage complex global and local stakeholder relationships, collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance and business teams to optimise governance and reporting infrastructure, and drive the development of processes and workflows to ensure seamless, repeatable delivery of corporate obligations across multiple departments. Additionally, this role will work closely with Centres of Excellence (COEs) on behalf of leadership to continue to educate global stakeholders on Australian legislative and regulatory requirements and to establish local governance arrangements to embed accountability for service delivery standards. Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Applications will only be considered from candidates who have the appropriate approval to work in Australia. Successful applicants will be required to complete a Criminal & Bankruptcy check prior to commencing of employment. Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.