Ethics and Compliance Manager (24 Month Contract)

The employer: The Corporate Office of a leading SA employer in the industrial processing, distribution, and services industries : Industrial Equipment & Services and Consumer Industries (food and ingredient solutions).

Location: Sandton, Johannesburg

Salary: R1, 185, 440 and R1, 333, 620 per annum

The Core Purpose Of The Role

• To ensure organizational compliance with relevant anti-bribery and corruption legislative and industry requirements and prevent potential and real risk of losing the license to operate and any reputational damage through non-compliance and similar conduct thus negatively impacting the sustainability of the company
• Manage the full life cycle of investigations of all reported non-compliances (Ethics Line reports and walk-ins) in accordance with the Protected Disclosures Act and Global Whistle-blowing Policy (including arranging investigation, feedback, overseeing implementation of controls and recommendations, and closure) to resolve these in a confidential manner and within stipulated Group timeframes. Promote an ethical culture within the company
• Manage the Group antibribery and corruption (ABC) programme (inclusive of policies and procedures) and ongoing monitoring on the status of implementation for purposes of facilitating and meeting the company's reporting requirements.

Academic Requirements

• BCom / BA / LLB
• LLM (Advantage)
• Admitted Attorney (Advantage)

Work Experience:

• Compliance Management
• Ethics Process Management
• Legal
• JSE listed Company experience/Law Firms/Private Sector (Advantage)

Knowledge

• Information Technology
• Ethics and Corporate Governance
• Risk and Compliance
• Legal
• Ethics and Compliance

Skills

• Optimising teams performance
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Analytical reasoning
• Data Analytics
• Complex problem solving
• Service orientation
• Coordinating with others
• Judgment and decision-making

Personal Attributes

• Thinking Analytically
• Displaying Business Acumen
• Managing the Details
• Communicating
• Demonstrating Judgement
• Showing Resilience
• Engaging with stakeholders

Advantageous

• Accepting Accountability
• Thinking tactically
• Providing and receiving feedback
• Showing respect for people
• Improving and innovating continuously
• Adapting to change
• Committing to life-long learning
• Coaching and developing others

Key deliverables and outputs

• Strategic / Financial
• Manage Ethics and Ant-Bribery and Corruption Compliance
• Manage Regulatory risk (Anti-Bribery and Corruption)
• Operational
• Manage group ethics and forensic investigations.
• Manage Data Repository for Anti-Bribery and Corruption
• Reporting to governance structures
• Stakeholders (internal & external customers, suppliers, shareholders, communities)
• Internal stakeholders (all divisions)
• Auditors
• Law firms and external investigators Internal & External customers