Head: Change Risk

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- 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

Lead First Line Governance & Control team in the managing of the risk profile through evaluating, responding and monitoring of operational risk in line with Operational Risk Framework.

**Job Description**:
Accountability: 1st line Change Risk aggregation, and management of Change processes, standards and policies

Accountability: Drives the strategy to achieve first line of defense governance excellence
- Responsible for strategic and operational management of the Change Risk capability
- Responsible for defining, reporting and managing the performance of Change Risk within the change portfolio
- Analyses data to generate key actionable insights and works with stakeholders to improve Change Risk and delivery performance
- Create platforms to enable others in the management of Change Risk
- Manages a team of Change Risk specialists (currently 2 x VP FTE's)
- Develops frameworks, methodologies, standards through interpretation of policy informed by internal and external stakeholders
- Keeps abreast of industry trends and insights and uses this to improve change performance within Absa

Accountability: Stakeholder engagement
- Be the point of entry for interactions with the key business stakeholders on control management.
- Position and communicate standards, requirements and initiatives with the relevant stakeholders
- Actively drive a plan for all control matters affecting the business
- Liaise with senior executive stakeholders and stakeholder groups

Accountability: Reporting
- Risk and Control reporting for the business includes the Operational Summary for the Business and Strategic Updates at a business level.
- Group Operational Risk reporting (e.g. CPA,MCA,RCAs, Operational KRIs, etc.).
- Implementation of innovative reporting and tracking mechanisms for tracking of all assurance issues etc.
- Drives the reporting on progress updates for operational excellence and control remediation issues.

People management
- Recruit the right people.
- Develop, motivate and manage people. Recognize performance, provide appropriate interventions and opportunities, and address poor performance.
- Equip team to deliver based on a high performance culture.
- Provide strategic direction to the team in line with the strategic direction of the Group.
- Establish and maintain a succession plan for the key roles in the area and review and approve succession plans

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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