Senior Specialist: Operational Risk needed at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of operational risk management frameworks.

Minimum Experience

• 3 – 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 – 2 years at junior management level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Generic Management

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Preference for candidates with a professional background in finance, risk management, or business management.

Process

• Provide guidelines and oversight to ensure the identification and assessment of business risk in order to create awareness and manage risk accordingly.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Keep abreast of regulation and industry developments to advise and guide on key compliance risk issues; enabling informed decision making.
• Coordinate investigations in order to establish and verify facts that leads to the identification and reduction of business risks.
• Coordinate and collaborate with various risk teams to ensure alignment and minimize risk.
• Partner with business to facilitate risk practices and entrench operational risk management practices.
• Provide assurance and effective management of operational risk for area accountable for to minimize operational risk.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Customer

• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Adhere to financial controls, governance and compliance policies and processes throughout an area of specialisation, contributing to cost efficiency.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.