Senior Manager: Operational and Resilience Risk

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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The purpose of the role is to Ensure that all activities for the centre of competence and duties assigned are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, enterprise-wide risk management and governance, management frameworks (and other applicable guidelines), internal policies and standards

**Job Description**:
Understand the business value chain and leverage from all sub-functions and activities Stay abreast of market, tools, methodology, practice changes and act as an advisor to guide business in managing the applicable risks exposures (R&D) Be responsible for the designing of group-aligned and integrated risk governance, insights & reporting in terms of third-party exposure Provide advisory (including insights) support on the business units’ processes relating to third party management in terms of the relevant risk types Consult all available enterprise frameworks to shape and inform the PPSG’s (Procedures, Policies, Standards and Guidelines) to be adapted by the COE as they relate to the management of third-party Be the support to all Business Heads, Executives and Line Management with required governance, control, monitored reporting, in terms of the relevant risk types

SME must also act as an advisor, consultant, and coordinator by:
Understanding business processes, business models, relevant risk impacts as well as the key drivers and risks associated. Identifying potential risks using data, dashboards, and/or other metric by analyzing risk information. Provide advice and recommendations regarding any emerging risks, trends, and early detection of issues for the relevant risk types Employing their capacity and tools to be innovative while recognizing and respecting the need to be prudent in (amend as per other risk types) risk management. Promoting the protection of the Bank and its customers’ interest Supporting an effective risk culture, where there is an open, proactive, and constructive dialogue in the management of the relevant risk types Enabling management to monitor the effectiveness of the control environment and to take action to prevent, mitigate and remediate the relevant risk types, where required.

Training and Communication

Leadership and Stakeholder Management

Engage and coordinate internal stakeholders across various business areas and functions across the group and external stakeholders (e.g., regulators and other third parties) Provide strong leadership (of self), direction and display role model behaviors, inspiring others to work together to achieve the strategic vision. Build effective working relationships with key stakeholders and information flows across the business units, risk functions and the various entities Assist the business on execution of strategy by providing advice on risk/control and challenge decisions that pose risk. Advise leadership on emerging global third-party risk trends and advise accordingly Support and influence the organization in improving the third-party risk management through digitization, automation, standardization, and simplification

Third-Party Risk Management and Governance

Advise on risk decisions and escalate risk decisions to the relevant Head. (If required) Assess the relevance and performance of the third-party risk indicators and thresholds as defined in the monitoring tools and methodologies, leveraging on the business risk appetite or materiality thresholds Partner with the second line of defense (business units) to provide guidance on issue/action documentation, tracking, escalation, and remediation of. Investigate third-party matters affecting the relevant business risk profile, which may pose an undue risk. Oversee deep dive and lessons learnt exercises for material risks, including the review, challenges, and tracking/escalation of findings. Review major remediation plans for adequacy, completeness, and progress. Escalate any unresolved concerns directly to the Business Heads Ensure that third-party processes, control requirements and governance frameworks that impact the relevant risk types are documented and understood by all members of the team. Create and maintain a central communication portal (knowledge base) for the COE to ensure knowledge content is up to date and relevant.

Project and Change Management

Promote the sharing of information across the various business units and functions through working group collaborations and other means Participate in or lead related change or improvement projects from design through to deployment, including such aspects as resource, plan and issues and risk management. Establish an operating model and manage the

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