Senior Risk Manager

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**- **Requisition nr**: 142778
**Talent Acquisition Specialist**: Tshego Semenya
**Location**:135 Rivonia Road, Sandown
**Closing date**:19 November 2025- ** Cluster**- Nedbank, Business and Commercial Banking- ** Career Stream**
- Enterprise Wide Risk Management- Leadership Pipeline
- Manage Self: Professional- ** Position**- Senior Risk Manager - Environment, Sustainability and Governance- ** Why join our team**- This is a rare opportunity to join Nedbank at a strategic inflection point where ESG risk management is being embedded deeply into the business. As a Senior Risk Manager - ESG, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the cluster’s sustainability journey by operationalising ESG frameworks, advising on climate risk, and reporting directly to senior stakeholders. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative, fast-paced team that values autonomy, innovation, and purpose-driven impact. The role offers exposure to high-level strategic initiatives, including glidepath development, transition risk analysis, and regulatory alignment with SARB climate risk guidelines. You’ll have the chance to influence decision-making at the highest levels, contribute to long-term resilience, and help drive Nedbank’s transformation agenda. If you’re passionate about sustainability, risk, and making a measurable difference, this role offers the platform, visibility, and support to do just that.

** Job Purpose**- To ensure that the Group Risk Framework is embedded; operationalised and implemented within the business and provide advice and guidance to mitigate business risks and ensure that regulatory requirements are met.

** Job Responsibilities**- ** Policy & Framework Management**- Embedment of Nedbank Group, and specifically, ESG Policies and frameworks within the cluster, through active participation in and Risk representation in steering committees.
- Maintaining and interpreting risk and compliance policies, including climate risk frameworks.
- Operationalise the Nedbank Group, and specifically the ESG Frameworks by ensuring that cluster level governance structures and charters are implemented; ensuring adequate risk reports generated; risk meetings held and ESG processes & strategy are aligned with group.

** Risk Oversight**- Monitoring adherence to Nedbank Group, specifically ESG risk frameworks, regulatory requirements, and governance standards.
- Climate risk oversight and gap analysis for regulatory compliance and policy conformance.
- Ensure the business fully complies with ESG risk standards by revising cluster and risk process guidelines.
- Mitigate ESG risk by providing business with relevant information; guidance and advice based on regulatory standards; compliance and audit findings. Ensure improvements on identified risks by engaging with business; understanding risks and by creating action plans.

** Advisory & Challenge**- Advisory on risk frameworks related to sustainability and SARB requirements.-
- Acting as a critical challenger to business decisions, embedding risk considerations in processes and ensuring alignment of strategy to Nedbank’s environmental and sustainability targets.
- Evaluate and analyse relevant audit findings and management improvement comments; by assessing whether actions will result in improvement and by making recommendations.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

** Monitoring & Reporting**- Monitoring and reporting progress on climate risk initiatives.

** Reporting & Escalation**- Preparing risk reports for senior management and escalating significant issues promptly.

** Regulatory Enablement**- Coordinating responses and gap analyses for regulatory bodies (e.g., SARB climate risk requirements).

** Awareness & Capability Building**- Driving risk awareness initiatives and supporting training across business units.-
- **Job Responsibilities Continue**- ** Management Oversight**- Accountable for tracking the performance and conformance of the team to SEMS process SLAs by streamlining processes and creating efficiencies.
- Improve work processes; productivity and reduce costs by offering innovative ideas and input to Group and/or business stakeholders and through soliciting input from managers and colleagues.

** Foster Healthy Risk Culture and forge business and stakeholder relationships**- Build relationships; by reporting risk issues and by providing risk related information to strategic committees; as per the Group Risk Framework.

** Foster Healthy Risk Culture and forge business and stakeholder relationships**- Build long-term relationships and support stakeholders in reaching business objectives by keeping abreast of and sharing industry information with stakeholders.

** Manage Personal Growth and Knowledge**- Keep abreast of indust