Risk Officer Sandton

Risk Officer - Operations

We're excited to offer a Risk Officer - Operations position for our client in the banking and insurance industry. In this role, you'll play a vital role in safeguarding the organization by identifying and managing any threats to the achievement of our client’s business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Ongoing management and improvement of the risk management framework for the organization.
• Overseeing and engaging with internal stakeholders, making recommendations, and implementing appropriate risk control actions.
• Monitoring, evaluating, challenging, reviewing, and reporting on the organization’s success in managing its risks.
• Assist in identifying and updating major risks affecting the operational function and guiding the Business units in identifying their key risk indicators.
• Monitor internal controls to ensure their adequacy and effectiveness and assist in the identification of appropriate enhancements to address identified weaknesses.
• Provide an effective administrative function to support the risk management function.
• Support the Head of Risk Management in the development and updating of risk management policies and procedures.
• Conduct research when required.
• Compile and submit all required and ad hoc reports timely and accurately.
• Assist in the maintenance of a culture that emphasizes and demonstrates the importance of effective Risk Management to all staff.
• Monitor and control the internal assessment process to ensure compliance with policy and procedures.
• Assist in the coaching of employees in the use of relevant operational risk management tools.
• Conduct risk assessments of the operational functions on an ongoing basis.
• Conduct risk management training for internal stakeholders.
• Involvement in the digitization of the risk tools (e.g., Power BI, Exclaim).
• Involvement in the process risk management to oversee the frequency of process reviews, process documentation timelines, and accessibility of process documents.
• Promote risk awareness to prepare the organization for emerging risks.
• Execute specific deep dives or investigations to better understand risks, problems, or incidents in the organization.
• Assess opportunities for continuous process innovation to prevent deviation trends and control gaps.
• Provide risk support to project teams in assessing their processes, procedures, and identifying associated risks and controls.
• Perform risk monitoring for new service implementation and operationalization processes.
• Contribute to potential reviews for inclusion in the annual audit plan.
• Facilitate and complete assigned internal audit function reviews.
• Coordinate management responses across the organization for assigned reviews and report on findings.
• Assist in the preparation of the Combined Assurance Reports.
• Build ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure excellent business delivery.
• Deliver effective and consistent service to stakeholders.
• Participate and contribute to a culture that builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback, and provides exceptional client service.
• Facilitate presentations to customers and stakeholders.

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