Enterprise Risk Manager, Absa Regional Operations

4 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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To provide specialist advice and support in Enterprise Risk for Absa Regional Operations, enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks, designing of ARO Risk Strategy, the management of the daily business and delivery of key projects as required by the stakeholders.

**Job Description**:
Overall job purpose
- Specialist support role regarding the designing of ARO Risk Strategy, the management of the daily business and delivery of key projects as required by the stakeholders.
- To provide specialist advice and support in business enablement and creation of information to inform decision making.
- Execution and delivery of the ARO Risk strategic, financial and operational plans and people agenda. This includes the responsibility for the profitability of teams through analysis and performance forecasts and supporting the ARO Risk function and senior management to understand their financial and management accounts.
- Creation and maintenance of the ARO Risk service catalogue and transfer pricing processes and engagements and interactions with colleagues, to ensure that appropriate service descriptions, cost allocations and transfer pricing methodologies are implemented enabling high level of cash recovery from countries for said services.
- Support the delivery of optimal outcomes to internal / external audiences under tight deadlines and interact with varied stakeholders across the bank and managing the expectations of stakeholders is essential to the role.

Key Accountability

Accountability: Strategic expertise and support
- Support the facilitation of the development of an ARO Risk strategy for the next 2-3 years by providing administrative assistance in the process and capturing & synthesising the assessment(s) of the existing situation and anticipated changes (external environment) in collaboration with Risk-type Heads and SMEs.
- Provide expertise, support and guidance on complex and key strategic change matters, ensuring alignment with business strategy
- Support the design, implementation and embedment of strategic change programmes through input into ARO Risk presentations at change governance (Change Council, CAM) as well as performing oversight activities related to ARO Risk strategic change and efficiency programmes as Risk specialist
- Based on the criteria and frameworks developed by Group Finance and Group Risk, evaluate all strategic initiatives/major projects prior to launch together with the senior leadership to inform Group Risk Exco and RBB Exco’s prioritization of projects and project funding. Support the project sponsors through the development of the business cases.
- Enable the evaluation of identified risks in strategic initiatives and projects through appropriately detailed data and scenarios.

Accountability: Financial Planning, Performance measurement and reporting
- Prepare budgets, special data analysis, and adhoc information reports by collaborating with ARO Risk specialists and business partners (Finance, HR, Technology, Change).
- Drive the timely preparation of budgets by cost centre owners including financial plans, headcount, IT plans as well as project / programme expenditure across ARO Risk.
- Prepare the consolidated financial plans for ARO Risk (RAF, MTP and STP) for presentation to the Function / Business Unit Exco and Head for approval.
- Monitor and report on ARO Risk management’s timeliness and appropriateness of actions to ensure a rational utilisation of assets through monthly quantitative analyse of financial performance.
- Create and maintain the ARO Risk Services catalogue across consuming Business Units and legal entities, including the identification and classification of activities, cost drivers, allocation methodologies / principles and service level agreements. Prepare & socialise evidence based ratings for the quarterly service reviews.
- Support the process of governance reporting through data gathering, assessment and preparation for ARO Markets at Group and Board (AGL ERC, GRCMC, GACC), for ARO Risk reporting to Executive Management and Regulators (Prudential Authority, Regulatory College) and investors (Project Khula) in cases of capital raising exercise.

Accountability: Risk and Business management
- Be a leading example of a culture of proactive compliance and risk management within the team and the function as a whole.
- Implement and maintain operational activities to achieve operational excellence.
- Understand and comply with all applicable governance, compliance and risk policies and procedures, ensuring that the relevant documentation is in place.
- Implement and monitor appropria

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