CPS 230 para 11 Key principles: manage operational risk, keep critical operations within tolerance, manage service provider…
The entity is bound by three overarching principles: run effective operational risk management while setting and upholding suitable conduct and compliance standards; keep its critical operations inside their tolerance levels even when a severe disruption hits; and control the risks that come from relying on service providers. Every later paragraph elaborates one of these three.
Source: APRA CPS 230, CPS 230 para 11. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open APRA CPS 230 in the compliance library.
Applies to APRA-regulated entities.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Annual CPS 230 self-assessment or gap analysis report with remediation tracker · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Board-approved CPS 230 compliance map tracing each paragraph of the issue to an owner, policy and control · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Code of conduct and compliance standards with dated approval and attestation records · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- CPS 230 compliance map still cites July 2023 paragraph numbers after the July 2026 renumbering
- Conduct and compliance standards set but not linked to the operational risk framework
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetCPS 230 para 12 Identify, assess and manage operational risk