What we can do for you
At Specsavers, we know that to reach your full potential you need to work somewhere that will bring out your best. We pride ourselves on offering a workplace with a supportive, driven, flexible and inclusive culture.
In 2025, we were proudly recognised as one of Australia’s Best Places to Work for the third consecutive year and ranked 16th on Fortune’s list of the World’s 25 Best Workplaces.
Here’s a taste of just some of our perks:
- Quarterly bonus scheme
- Two free pairs of glasses each year
- Birthday, Volunteer, Professional Development and Paid Parental Leave
- Health & Wellbeing programs
So, if you like the sound of working for a company that’s dedicated to improving the lives of both their people and customers - we think you’d look good at Specsavers.
The role & team
Specsavers is a complex, purpose-led organisation operating at scale across Australia and New Zealand. We are seeking an Audit & Risk Manager to join our Health Fund Enablement, Risk & Compliance team. In this role, you will help protect our stores and brand by driving consistent compliance practices, with a focus on Health Fund and store transactions. You’ll conduct audits, identify risks and irregularities, and provide clear, actionable insights that support both compliance and profitability.
Working closely with Store Directors and cross-functional teams, you will take a proactive, prevention-first approach by supporting training, reviewing communications, and strengthening processes to minimise risk. You’ll also contribute to the rollout of new initiatives, provide guidance to stores, and support audits and investigations as needed.
This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys combining analysis with stakeholder engagement and is motivated to continuously improve how risk and compliance is delivered across the business.
We embrace a hybrid work approach to ensure a great work-life balance. When you're not working remotely, you’ll be based at our Support Office in Port Melbourne.
The skills we are looking for:
- Experience in audit, risk, or investigation
- Exposure to financial and operational audits, compliance, or fraud detection
- Data analysis capability (or willingness to develop these skills)
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and adapt to different stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the ability to work in ambiguous or changing environments
- Ability to remain calm and effective when dealing with complex or high-pressure situations
- Tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, audit, risk or a related discipline (preferred)
About Us
Specsavers are rated the market leader for eye tests, the retailer of choice for contact lenses and one of the fastest growing hearing providers in Australia and New Zealand. We are on a continual mission to transform eye and hearing health by eliminating preventable vision loss and blindness, including Glaucoma and Diabetes, through improved prevention and early detection, as well as providing accessible and affordable hearing care.
At Specsavers we believe a diverse, inclusive, and flexible culture enables our people to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. When it comes to flexibility, we understand that one size doesn't fit all. Our flexible working at Specsavers enables us to work in ways that support our lifestyle to help us balance our career with the other important things in life.
Creating a great place to work for our people is pinnacle to us and along with our Behaviours is at the core of everything we do. We like to think it’s a fun and positive place to work – why not have a look for yourself https://join.specsavers.com/au/department/support-office/
Applicants for the role are required to have current working rights as per, relevant government legislation.
