Senior Specialist: Regulatory Affairs and Compliance

2 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Hollard Insurance Full time R850 000 - R1 250 000 per year

About
This role will be responsible for helping to form and express a central group view about regulatory changes across the Hollard Group. This involves:

  • Providing a central point of contact with the financial services sector regulators (such as the Prudential Authority, Financial Sector Conduct Authority, National Credit Regulator, and Financial Intelligence Centre) to ensure timeous collation and submission of information with such regulators (e.g. maintaining regulatory returns and coordinating engagements with the regulators).
  • Supporting the Senior Manager with identifying, escalating, and managing regulatory risk.
  • Maintaining an understanding legislation affecting the Group in order to provide support and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support a working relationship with key internal stakeholders from the different Business units, Head of Control Functions and all central function to ensure you are able to identify who is required as part of the commenting process.
  • Support the Senior Manager with engagements with the financial services sector regulators, namely, Information Regulator, BBBEE Commissioner, Competition Law Commissioner.
  • In collaboration with the Senior Manager, prepare and maintain a formal communications plan to facilitate the scheduling of essential meetings and encouraging information sharing to maintain effective relationships with the authorities.
  • Give input into established Hollard forums to communicate, share information, participate in engagements and provide commentary on regulations impacting the broader group as well as conduct and training as and when required.
  • Collate data and provide trends, analysis and recommendations to mitigate market conduct risks to assist with driving a mature conduct discipline.
  • Coordinate statutory engagements with the regulators inter alia:

  • Ensure that requests and queries received from regulators are appropriately routed within Hollard and responded to consistently (considering previous submissions) and timeously;

  • Collate, consider with the Senior Manager and then submit applications and reports to applicable regulators within the timelines;
  • Co-ordinate onsite visits, thematic investigations and ad-hoc engagements between the regulators and Hollard;
  • Assist the Senior Manager with ensuring business is prepared for the regulatory engagements and provide guidance, support, and management of any resulting mitigating actions.

  • Monitor and analyse regulatory developments and advise on how the proposed changes will affect current and proposed business activities. In addition, advise on the impact of the company's strategy on the organisation's inherent regulatory risk;

  • Coordinate Hollard's review, input to and potential lobbying activity related to new or revised relevant legislation and regulation.
  • Assist with drafting and presenting overviews for information sessions/ interventions.
  • Maintain industry networks and occasionally represent the group in industrywide affiliations/ memberships in order to increase industry expertise and acquire insight into international regulatory agendas in order to benchmark Group actions and experiences.
  • Assist with the annual review process, collation and sign off, of the Hollard Regulatory Universe across the different BUs.
  • Managing and retaining records of changes and current state is paramount.
  • Assist with adhoc overall Group Compliance responsibilities as and when required.
  • Manage the administration function within the Regulatory Affairs and Compliance areas


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