Senior Manager: Risk

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The incumbent of the role is accountable for providing leadership, strategic direction, co-ordination, oversight and development.

The role is accountable for supporting the development of strategy, translating this into plans for execution for the respective areas, driving operational implementation, fostering a culture of operational excellence and adoption with specific performance measures and control systems.

Job Description

The incumbent of the role is accountable for providing leadership, strategic direction, co-ordination, oversight and development.

The role is accountable for supporting the development of strategy, translating this into plans for execution for the respective areas, driving operational implementation, fostering a culture of operational excellence and adoption with specific performance measures and control systems.

The incumbent is accountable for effective management of fraud risks, mitigation strategies, risk management and governance frameworks ensuring that fraud losses remain within the set fraud risk appetite including adoption of best practice methodologies. Leadership and management of sustainable policies, systems and procedures.

Furthermore, the role evaluates, reviews, and reports on risk types across the portfolio. This includes identification of potential fraud trends, threats and Modus Operandi. The role delivers the required operational risk and regulatory reporting.

The role is responsible for financial management and budgeting as well manages stakeholder relationships across the bank and externally where required. The role provides leadership guidance to the teams as well as acts as a technical subject matter expert for the area, helping to solution complex cases.

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