Risk Manager

7 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa iOCO Full time

JOBNUMBER

**iOCO02900**
- CONTRACT TYPE

**Permanent**
- STATE/PROVINCE

**Gauteng**
- CONTRACT TYPE:
**Hybrid**

**The Role**:
We are seeking an experienced and proactive **Risk Manager** to join our organization. As a Risk Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to ensure the organization's financial and operational well-being. If you have a strong background in risk management, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to develop effective risk strategies, we encourage you to apply.

**Skills and Experience**:
**What you’ll do**:

- Develop and implement the organization’s risk management strategy and framework.
- Develop and implement the organization’s governance and compliance program.
- Identify and assess risks associated with the organization’s activities, including projects, operations, and systems.
- Monitor and report on risks and controls to the relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate with other departments to ensure risk management processes are integrated with other risk management activities.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
- Oversee governance processes and procedures to ensure they meet regulatory and ethical standards.
- Provide legal advice on risk management issues and the organization’s governance and compliance.
- Provide guidance and training to staff on risk management, governance, and compliance.
- Working with senior managers across the business to develop and challenge their understanding of risk exposure, adequacy of mitigating controls, and risk appetite.
- Coordinating monthly risk committee meetings to understand each business's risks and mitigation strategies.
- Managing the bid review committee process, aligning proposals to contracting, and ensuring bid review concerns are contracted accordingly.
- Proactively providing risk management advice across, identifying emerging risks, and advising on appropriate risk management options.
- Build risk and control awareness by helping senior managers embed robust risk management across all areas of the business.
- Supporting the anti-fraud initiatives, including working with divisions to understand and mitigate their fraud risk.
- Sharing risk management best practices.
Promoting the use of risk management as an enabler of opportunities and expanding its role towards that of a management tool for informing decision-making, creating value, and competitive advantage.
- Review previous risks and issues and ensure the process to eliminate previous issues.

**Other**:
**Your Expertise**:

- Proven experience in risk management, governance, and compliance.
- Strong understanding of the regulatory environment, risk management principles, and legal issues related to risk management.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Detailed understanding of contracting and law.
- Sound understanding of strategic imperatives.
- Experience in building effective working relationships with senior management.
- Ability to achieve ownership amongst the senior management of an organization through a combination of assertiveness, influencing skills, and a thorough
- knowledge of the relevant facts.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and succinctly.
- Organization and planning skills with the ability to deal effectively with both short-term imperatives and long-term planning.

**Qualifications Required**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or Law.
- As the role includes governance and compliance responsibilities, a legal qualification such as a Juris Doctor (JD), Bachelor of Laws (LLB), or equivalent will be given preference.***

**Personal Attributes/ Soft Skills Required**:

- Ability to work together in a group, combine strengths, negate weaknesses, and contribute expertise to accomplish a shared objective.
- Ability to recognize which results are significant - and what steps need to be taken to achieve them.
- The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
- Solves challenging problems through intuition and analytical thinking.
- Builds relationships with, and delivers services to both internal and external customers, with a focus on their needs.
- The ability to influence others to your way of thinking without force or coercion.
- Demonstrates adaptability and works effectively in various situations with multiple people. Understands and appreciates different and opposing perspectives and adapts approaches according to situational requirements.**Other information applicable to the opportunity**:

- Permanent position
- Location: Johannesburg

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