Business Assurance Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa FirstRand Full time
Job Description


To utilize deep, specialist knowledge and experience of the business environment to identify and assess risk and the resultant adequacy of controls.


To work and collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense in navigating complex risk and enhancing business assurance practices.


  • Understand, at a deep level of specialization, the entire breadth of the control framework.
  • Develop an assurance plan through consultation with the respective management teams and various assurance providers.
  • Implement and maintain the Bank's risk management framework across the First Line of Defense (1LOD) within wider bank operations, working closely with 2LOD colleagues to achieve this.
  • Collaborate with 1LOD colleagues to ensure that the Bank's risk management framework is understood and adhered to, providing support where needed.
  • Design and ensure the execution of approved sampling techniques, testing strategies on assurance reviews.
  • Lead testing and evidencing of control effectiveness to give assurance that the risks are controlled in a proportionate way.
  • Conduct detailed investigations, for, and on behalf of team leadership to accurately identify breakdowns and resultant risk, and to understand the extent of the impact.
  • Actively engage in the improvement and automation of manual tasks, strengthening the control fabric and enhancing the overall control environment.
  • Develop, introduce and implement both new and enhanced control methods to improve the risk environment, making use of local and global leading practices.
  • Ensure that risk mitigation controls are embedded and assess the adequacy of the controls by quantifying a reduction of risk.
  • Act in alignment with operational risk management frameworks to reactively and proactively manage risk, over and above engaging in the relevant risk reporting.
  • Identify and assess new or emerging risks as internal activities or the external environment changes.
  • Anticipate potential barriers, issues, and management concerns and create action plans and recommendations to address these concerns.
  • Draft highquality reports with observations which are insightful, addressing the root cause, have agreed actions that mitigate the risk and facilitate the remediation of issues until closure.
  • Oversee relevant regulatory reporting and monitoring, ensuring processes are current and take accountability for the production of regulatory reporting within timeframes when contacted by the regulator.
  • Create and update an incident playbook in the event of an incident.
  • Manage the audit process, facilitating audit visits, information requests and tracking outstanding actions to completion.
  • Complete all governance and group credit attestation and submission to center on a regular basis.
  • Ensure that all business review, internal audit, Operation risk, Finance, COO, Management assurance activities are closed.
  • Contribute to the development of overall area budget and develop tactical budget for area of responsibility that minimize expenditure and manage costs.
  • Control the budget for area including the authorization of expenditure and implementation of financial regulations.
  • Participate in and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
  • Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies.
  • Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organizational knowledge improvement.
Job Details

Application Closing Date

09/05/24

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