Senior Operational Risk Specialist

3 weeks ago

Centurion, South Africa Group Finance Full time

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

**Role Purpose**

The Senior Operational Risk Specialist role will be responsible for supporting the Head of Risk Management in the implementation of a risk management framework for the identification, assessment, measurement, monitoring, mitigation and management of all operational / non-financial risks. This role will be required to work closely with the compliance and internal controls teams, as well, as business owners where the first line of defense is executed. This entails ensuring that effective processes are in place to manage, monitor and report on risks and issues, through stakeholder management.

**Requirements**:

- BCom / BTech Internal Audit or Risk Management or other related degree
- 5-8 Years + experience in managing and monitoring operational risk (incl. IT risks or be in a position to challenge IT risks) and/or enterprise risk preferably in the financial services
- Regulatory matters (i.e. POPIA, Insurance Act, Prudential Authority’s GIOs etc.) understanding

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Responsible for:

- the maintenance and updating of all risk processes and procedures ensuring information is current and accurate to reflect business processes and activities and risks or weaknesses are identified and escalated
- identify emerging risks that could have a negative impact of the company’s operations and financial standing including regulatory and legislative
- coordinating, communicating and participating in risk activities such as risk meetings, workshops and project meetings
- coordinating monitoring activities to review the implementation of Group policies across the Group Wide Services functions
- effective risk management communication to improve risk management culture and awareness within business
- building relationships with business
- Managing third party risk aspects:

- Assessment of third party’s inherent risk
- Assign residual risk rating
- Monitoring loss events and incidents and recommending remediation actions, including escalation and reporting protocols Issue tracking and action plan status updating across the Group Wide Services functions
- Collaborate with other assurance providers like Internal and External Audit to maintain the combined assurance universe
- Propose and implement initiatives to improve the risk maturity of operational risk management and project risk management coverage.

**Competencies**
- Business Acumen
- Drive for Results
- Leads Change and Innovation
- Collaboration
- Impact and Influence
- Self-Awareness and Insight
- Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Attention to detail
- The ability to operate both at a strategic and operational level.
- Be a proactive individual who is a self-starter and gets things done.
- The ability to work well with people and collaborate to develop practical and simple solutions to mitigate risks in the business.
- Good stakeholder management ability and the ability to develop relationships across senior and junior levels.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- An innate drive to succeed and a passion for operational risk.
- A business orientated, practical and pragmatic mindset to risk management

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