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General Manager: Enterprise Risk

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Closing Date 2024/02/29
Reference Number LAN240223-1
Job Title General Manager: Enterprise Risk
Division Risk Management
Unit Risk Enterprise Risk
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africaxe2x80x99s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bankxe2x80x99s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To lead and establish appropriate Commercial and Enterprise risk management principles within the organisation by developing implementing and maintaining risk management policies, standards and processes in line with the strategic objectives of the corporate plan of Land Bank Group. The incumbent is responsible for setting the approach in Identifying, Assessing, Managing and Reporting in respect of the Enterprise-Wide Risk Framework. Oversight of subsidiary companies.
Key Performance Areas

1. Design, Developing, Driving and Integrating the Enterprise-wide Risk Management framework within Land Bank Group

• Design, develop, implement and integration of an Enterprise xe2x80x93 Wide Risk Framework(ERMF)

• Drive and integrate the ERMF

• Create risk awareness within the organisation to entrench a formal risk management approach:

• Ensure the development and updating of an Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and implement and Enterprise-Risk wide implementation plan incorporating it into business unit strategies and performance contracts

2. Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance

• Establish a compliance framework

• Recommend and obtain approval of compliance policy manage the implementation of statutory and regulatory requirements

• Monitor compliance with all applicable legislation

• Report to internal stakeholders

• Accurate and timely statutory reporting to external stakeholders

• Design, Develop and implement Ethics Policy

• Draft the ethics policy

• Circulate the policy to business for comment

• Send to Board for approval

• Perform the duties of an Ethics Officer for Land Bank Group

3. Identify, Assess and Manage and report relevant risks in respect of the Enterprise Risk Framework.

• Monitor breaches to risk appetite and recommend to Board Risk Appetite considerations

• Recommend risk appetite in accordance with Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and Land Bank Strategy

• Revise limits throughout the Land Bank

• Publish risk appetite report

• Present the report to the Board for approval

• Conduct risk assessment maintain a comprehensive risk register and quantitatively evaluate and assess risk

• Ensure there is business continuity and disaster recovery strategy and plan in place

• Define and monitor interest rate and liquidity risk

• Ensure availability of proper Treasury Risk Monitoring Tool

• Monitor treasury activity through attendance at monthly ALCO meetings

• Monitor funding obtained by Treasury

4. Manage stakeholder relationships (Exco / Board / Board sub committees / National Treasury / Operational Risk and Process
Risk Committee chair, including but not limited to these committees)

• Identify the relevant role players in accordance with business requirements and dependencies:

• Board Risk and Governance Committee

• Board Audit and Finance Committee

• Asset and Liability Committee

• Operational Risk Committee

• Credit Risk Monitoring Committee

• National Treasury

5. Oversight, Monitoring and evaluating and Identification of key risks for the organisation xe2x80x93 ERM

• Develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems

• Monitor and evaluate adherence to policies and procedures

• Monitor and evaluate provisions (impairments)

• Monitor and evaluate concentration, sector and portfolio risks related to credit granting

• Provide an independent evaluation of treasury compliance with approved limits

• Monitor market and interest rate risk in terms of Treasury exposure

• Monitor the borrowing plan of treasury

• Monitor annually the counterparty exposure within Treasury

• Monitor settlements of trade on a weekly basis

• Monitor the evaluation, management of credit risk in the Bank

• Monitor credit risk exposures (Board Risk and Governance Committee (RCG))

• Monitor business performance related to operations

• Monitor risk grading systems for credit

• Manage Business Intelligence:

• Conduct research and prepare reports for the Bank on international and domestic risk factors

• Analyse and interpret results from different business units for decision making purposes

6. Departmental and People Management

• Performance Management

• Capacity Planning

• Financial Management

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• Relevant 4 year tertiary qualification (B Com, BA, LLB, Risk Management, Business Management or related) - Postgraduate

• 8 -10 years experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, Ethics, Governance

Critical Competencies

• Policies and Procedures

• Risk environment

• Business Acumen

• Legislation

• Business Environment

• Risk Modelling (Qualitative and Quantitative)

• Process Engineer

• Legal knowledge

• Microsoft Office

• Governance

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours as and when required.

• Travel as and when required

Policy

Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.

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