Risk Officer

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Job Description

Role overview

• This role assists management & Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to develop risk management strategy & policy for the enterprise.
• This role will report to the Snr Risk Officer: External, Strategic and Change.
• All the work allocation will be in support of the deliverables of the External, Strategic & Change Risk team. This includes oversight over ensuring that best practice change portfolio and project practices and governances are followed; and strategic project risks are identified, assessed and minimized.

This role will have both CoE and Client Relationship Management (CRM) responsibilities.

Key Result Areas

• Assists business unit management to rollout the risk management strategy & risk policies as per the OML requirements.
• Ensures that risk management processes (identify, measure, respond, monitor and report risk) are implemented at business unit level.
• Provides support & assistance to management across the value chain to embed risk management.
• Challenge management where deemed appropriate and express an opinion on strategic execution / change risk.
• Positively influence the business units risk culture.
• Provides support to business unit management in carrying out risk-related responsibilities and influence risk-based decision making.
• Working closely with and providing oversight over retail customer solutions functions ensuring that risks are identified, assessed, and minimized and that conduct practices and governances are followed.
• Scans the external environment for relevant emerging risks (locally and globally) and assesses the potential impact, liaising with stakeholders to ensure that any significant issues are brought to their attention.
• Support the delivery of CoE related work and deep dives.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• Related tertiary qualification in risk/ audit/ accounting/compliance or related area.
• Related professional qualification advantageous.
• 4 5 years relevant experience in Financial Services.
• Stakeholder management experience at a middle or senior management level is mandatory.
• Proven research and analytical skills.
• Experience in product management, and/or distribution or other business models particularly in Retail Life Assurance would be advantageous.
• Related qualification & experience in strategic execution, project management and Agile Methodology also advantageous

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question

Skills

Education

Closing Date

28 April 2023

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.