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Job Summary

Accountable to the ME: Business Change and Integration (Product Solutions Cluster) and responsible for 1LOD Integration across the Cluster Businesses, implementing and embedding the Risk, Governance and Control Framework and related policies / standards to ensure the effective management, review and reporting of all risk items across the cluster.

The key purpose of this role is to provide leadership, improve, implement, develop and monitor robust processes and controls across the cluster business and ensure alignment with regulators and existing AGL policies, standards and procedures. Furthermore, critical to the role is to ensure that the risk profile and performance is effectively managed in an integrated manner across the cluster businesses. The role will also represent the cluster as 1LOD in key forum (e.g. Financial Crime Oversight Committee/FCOC, AFS ERC, PSC ERC, and related forums).

Job Description

Accountability: Strategic and Change Agenda

  • In conjunction with the Business Executive team, participate in defining the change agenda with
  • specific focus to the risk appetite of the unit;
  • To assist and ensure that the risk profile of the Business is in line with the broader Change
  • agenda; and
  • On an annual basis, identify key strategic drivers for the Business’ risk function to support with
  • strategic components.
  • Review the overall Business risk appetite and risk strategy and provide necessary guidance and recommendations.
  • Accountability: Governance and Control

    • Work with the cluster Executives to set Non-Financial Risk Appetite for the cluster, and monitor adherence thereof
    • Assist the business to pro-actively manage issues and emerging risks.
    • Responsible for optimal combined assurance plan, and governance and delivery thereof
    • Ensure a control approach that is fully aligned to business priorities both structurally & functionally

    Accountability: Drives the strategy to achieve first line of defense governance excellence

    • Set up and manage Governance & Control for the area to achieve excellence through well-defined scalable and easily replicated risk management processes.
    • Implement and maintain effective governance structure within the cluster and product area
    • Manage Policy and Standard rollout and compliance for the area.
    • Accountability for the oversight and the engagement with multiple functional areas that include; Governance and Control, Conformance, Operational key risks (Resilience, etc.), Audit, Compliance and with a view on current trends and future projections.
    • Accountable for the monitoring, implementation and reporting of Anti money laundering policies with Cards business across the portfolio.
    • Aligns the risk profile of Business Area through continuous interaction with internal and external stakeholders – providing a balance between operational efficiency and the accepted level of risk appetite.
    • Institutionalizes a culture of continuous improvement in risk management through risk awareness, Learning, Development and Communications.

    Accountability: Manage Risk Activities

    Specialist Risk Types:

    • Lead the implementation and embedment of the various risk frameworks and Target Operating Models (eg. Information Risk Management, Conduct & Reputational, Product Risk (NAPA), Data Privacy, etc.) and manage the risk and related governance and reporting activities within business and, in so doing, provide support to the Executives to ensure resolution, remediation and closure of any risk items;
    • Provide guidance and ensuring that proper indicators are in place;
    • Be responsible for ad-hoc risk and control remediation support to the offices of the business across the cluster

    Supervision:

    • Assist Business Executives in meeting their supervisory & risk management accountabilities;
    • Ensuring adoption of risk frameworks across the cluster
    • Assist to realign business’ risk resolution activities as and when required

    Assurance:

    • Responsible for driving the combined assurance framework across the cluster – with particular focus on 1LOD;
    • Provide proactive and reactive overall support to Business and Functional Units in terms of Combined Assurance requirements and directives;
    • Ensure the management and oversight of assurance findings and control issues identified across the cluster businesses are appropriately addressed and that remedial actions are embedded into day-to-day operational risk frameworks and practices;
    • Implement measures and tools to enhance the predictive assessments in meeting assurance commitments.

    Accountability: Stakeholder and Relationship Management

    • Develop and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders e.g. Risk, Audit, Compliance, Businesses and Operations, HR, Business Heads to understand their continuous requirements and gather feedback from meeting sessions to improve or maintain their expectations;
    • Oversee all risk related activities of stakeholders driving and ensuring that the business meets all control standards and ensure that there is consistency and uniformity in the execution across the business; and
    • Interact with counterparts in the industry to share information, engender co- operations, to gain common understanding of the threats and risks particularly facing South African & more generally the ARO presence countries’ banking industries specific to the CIB business

    Accountability: Performance Monitoring and Reporting

    • Represent the business in terms of the Absa Group risk reporting, governance and management information requirements by coordinating standardized submissions between the different stakeholders, verifying the accuracy of data, integrating the information into a presentable report and ensuring appropriate approvals and escalations;
    • Implement appropriate tracking sheets and frameworks to track across functional risk metrics and action plans;
    • Provide a centralised reporting and governance point to risk officers and executives on status and issues on specialised risk programmes and management assurance directives and issues;
    • Co-ordinate an overall control remediation indicator dashboard (i.e. Scorecard containing key control measures);
    • Host regular scorecard alignment sessions at EXCO / MANCO forums to ensure transparency, prioritisation and remediation planning;
    • Ensure actionable MI is delivered on a regular and timely basis; and
    • Define and implement robust processes to ensure transparency and accuracy of reporting

    Accountability: Control Environment

    • Custodian of the cluster control environment in partnership with the business executives
    • Develop and implement the overall control environment to manage operational and conduct risk events and compliance to regulations ensuring that the team meets its obligations in managing the framework aligned to all 3 lines of defense.
    • Implement and embed regulatory and bank policies within the cluster environment
    • Create strategic assurance alliances with key independent parties such as IA, Financial Crime, Operational Risk, Compliance, HR, Fraud Risk, Customer Service and other functional teams to ensure cluster processes are robust.
    • Fully embed effective cluster RCSAs to check the robustness of the processes and remediate open issues and track to closure.
    • Turn theoretical policy into practical solutions that are compliant and do not inhibit the business and solving complex technical and practical problems across the cluster.
    • Execution of and directly influence the business/key stakeholders so ensuring appropriate action is taken where necessary.
    • Undertake ad hoc project management assignments on an as needed basis, such as ones related to risk and control enhancements; process improvements; etc.

    Education

    Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

    Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

    Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised



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