Senior Manager: Risk Strategy, Business

1 week ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

The purpose of this role is to link strategy and execution. The Group recognises the importance of aligning execution effort directly to its strategic imperatives and ensuring that the key strategy enabling initiatives are delivered. This function sits alongside the Integrated Planning and Business Transformation functions to ensure cohesion of investment activities between businesses, functions and countries

**Job Description**:
The aim of this role is to focus on the execution of strategy, identify and monitor the key initiatives that underpin the functional strategy. You must give effect to this strategy through effective stakeholder engagement and alignment. You will partner with executives to ensure full understanding of expectations that they may have of this function and to ensure alignment on key initiatives, enablers, dependencies and interdependencies between areas.

You will be expected to:

- Drive Pan African CIB Risk strategy implementation (in line with Group Risk and CIB Risk strategic priorities)
- Drive business transformation in line with the Pan African CIB Risk strategy
- Drive resolution of governance issues and audit findings
- Manage Pan African CIB Risk Manco meetings and packs, Pan African SLG meetings and pack and Pan African CIB Risk Townhalls, Business Engagement Survey amongst others
- Work closely with the People and Culture, Integrated Planning and Financial Control functions of the Chief Operating Officer’s Office for effective strategy implementation

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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