Chief Specialist: IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

4 hours ago

Johannesburg, South Africa IT Ridge Technologies Full time

**This role will have broad accountability for ICT governance, risk and compliance related functions including ICT policies, standards, risk, and controls management. This role is a key contributor to IT Strategy, which includes developing frameworks aligned to the appropriate industry standards, creating the required forums, and establishing appropriate monitoring mechanisms to ensure that compliance is effective.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Governance**
- Establish and maintain the IT governance operating model, including the mandate and inter-relationship between governance structures
- Monitor the effectiveness of internal governance structures, including Executive committees, steering committees, and business forums, recommending potential improvements to Exco for consideration
- Consolidate GRC-related information across functions and governance structures, identifying priority focus areas, monitoring progress and reporting to stakeholders
- Effectively promote and practice good corporate Governance.

**Risk**
- Lead the development and implementation of the system-wide risk management function of the IT GRC framework as designed to ensure information IT risks are identified and monitored.
- Develop and maintain IT Risk Registers for the group companies, and departments, and ensure its regular review by management
- Internally assess, evaluate, and make recommendations to management regarding the adequacy of the IT controls for the Group’s information and technology systems.

**Policy/Compliance**
- Lead the system-wide IT compliance program, ensuring IT activities, processes, and procedures meet defined requirements, policies, and regulations.
- Develop and implement effective and reasonable policies and practices to secure protected and sensitive data and ensure IT and compliance with relevant legislation and legal interpretation.

**Audit**
- Work with Internal Audit, External Audit, Internal Control functions and outside consultants as appropriate on required IT assessments and audits
- Coordinate and track all information technology and IT related audits including scope of audits, timelines, auditing agencies and outcomes.
- Work with auditors as appropriate to keep audit focus in scope, maintain excellent relationships with audit entities and provide a consistent perspective that continually puts the institution in its best light. Provide guidance, evaluation, and advocacy on audit responses.

**Leadership**
- Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the smooth functioning of the Group and maintain the reputation of the organization as a viable business partner.
- Recommend programmatic and technical directions and operate with a high degree of independence in matters relating to the investigation, impact, and analysis of IT incidents, decisions regarding risk, and measures for ICT.
- Operate with a high degree of independence with regards to project management activities, including development of project plans and budget/resource estimates.

**Qualifications and experience required**:

- Bachelor's degree with auditing and information systems or equivalent
- Additional governance qualification/ certification
- 6-8 years’ experience at managerial level in a governance, risk & compliance environment
- Auditing experience as a compliance officer, information risk specialist, or information technology auditor
- Experience managing technology budgets and management/board reporting
- Extensive knowledge of governance frameworks and standards such as COBIT, ISO and NIST (CoBIT certification is a plus

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