O First Line Operational Risk and Control Manager

Job Description

RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

The purpose of the role is:
To utilize deep, specialist knowledge and experience of the business environment to identify and assess risks within Global Markets Trading environment and asses the adequacy of the resultant controls.

To work and collaborate with stakeholders across the various lines of defense in Global Markets, RMB and First Rand, navigating complex risk and enhancing business assurance practices.

To work and collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense in navigating complex risk and enhancing business assurance practices.- Are you someone who can
- Understand, at a deep level of specialization, the entire breadth of the control framework around a trade life cycle for Investment banking Products.
- Implement and maintain the Bank’s risk management framework across the First Line of Defense (1LOD) within wider bank operations, working closely with 2LOD colleagues to achieve this.
- Collaborate with and train 1LOD colleagues to ensure that the Bank’s risk management framework is understood and adhered to, providing support where needed.
- Lead testing and evidencing of control effectiveness to give assurance that the risks are controlled in a proportionate way.
- Conduct detailed investigations on operational risk events, to accurately identify breakdowns and resultant risk, and to understand the extent of the impact.
- Identify and assess new or emerging risks as internal activities or the external environment changes.
- Develop, introduce and implement both new and enhanced control methods to improve the risk environment, making use of local and global leading practices.
- Act in alignment with operational risk management frameworks to reactively and proactively manage risk, over and above engaging in the relevant risk reporting.
- Draft high-quality reports with observations which are insightful, addressing the root cause, have agreed actions that mitigate the risk and facilitate the remediation of issues until closure.
- Oversee relevant regulatory reporting and monitoring, ensuring processes are current and take accountability for the production of regulatory reporting within timeframes when contacted by the regulator.
- Manage the audit process, facilitating audit visits, information requests and tracking outstanding actions to completion and ensuring all assurance findings are closed
- Manage tasks and performance of any direct reports- Must be a CA(SA)
- Have experience with Technology Audits
- Minimum of five to eight years of experience in Financial Services and / or Banking industry
- Management experience gained in a Financial Services regulated organization,
- Experience of risk management within a financial environment.
- Ability to demonstrate effective stakeholder management.- You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging and stimulating work
- Opportunities to innovate and bring about change- We can be a match if you are:

- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
- Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
- Love upholding a robust control environment

post

RMB

Li-SP3

Job Details

31/07/25