Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:


Ensure FSD complies with the relevant risk and compliance management policies, frameworks, methodologies and processes and develop templates to ensure a standard approach to managing risks within FSD. Perform quality reviews on risk assessments conducted within FSD. Provide FSD risk management input into the enterprise-wide project management framework and the project management system(s). Facilitate risk and compliance assessments for FSD and ensure that risk response plans are executed. Facilitate risk assessments on cross-cutting risks identified across the FSD. Monitor and track risk response plans to ensure that they are executed by the risk owners at the appropriate time. Monitor legislative/regulatory changes with a potential impact on FSD's business processes. Log and report FSD risk incidents on SARB's centralised risk incident tool and monitor the related action plans. Analyse and understand the FSD environment (internal and external) to support and guide the identification of risks and opportunities to enable decision making. Prepare presentations and reports on portfolio, programme and project risks for the relevant governance forums and committees (both hub and spoke). Conduct onboarding and refresher training for the FSD management on related risk frameworks. Develop risk awareness campaigns, in consultation with the RMCD, to educate stakeholders and influence behaviour and drive the importance of effective risk management practices within FSD. Identify and coordinate risk management training needs across FSD and conduct related training. Analyse risk data and information on the FSD risk registers to identify trends and commonalities and create qualitative risk reporting and derive reliable business intelligence/insights for management to enable decision making. Communicate, throughout the department, risk management strategies as well as the importance of adhering to risk management policies. Work closely with FSD management to provide support and information for the various meetings and committees. Consolidate, maintain and report on the FSD risk assessments outcomes and issues. Research and benchmark leading risk and compliance management processes and developments and propose improvements accordingly. Act as the central point of contact between FSD business, the RMCD and other specialised risk disciplines such as cyber and physical security risk as well as communication and dissemination of risk-related information. Utilise the available risk management, compliance and audit tools to monitor and report on related issues to ensure sound governance. Facilitate business impact and business continuity plan assessments and coordinate incident response and recovery. Assist with other risk and compliance-related duties on an ad hoc or project basis, as requested by management. * Keep abreast with developments in risk and compliance and ensure application thereof and update applicable documents.