CIB Compliance Head: Monitoring & Testing at Absa

Job Description

A thriving business has an effective compliance monitoring and testing team. A team that provides early insight into potential compliance challenges and thus enabling the business to more quickly and easily resolve issues before they become serious. Financial services regulators, customers, executive leadership, and business units depend on compliance to preserve and promote the integrity of the company – and deliver results.
In this role you will be recognised as a trusted advisor as you develop and mentor colleagues in the business, yet at the same time delivering a strong compliance culture, strengthening our role as an affective second line of defence.

Additional responsibilities:

• Working with the Heads of Compliance as well as relevant Compliance ExCo members, their direct reports, M&T teams to ensure the plan is risk-based, reflects current and emerging assurance priorities and need, and is aligned to the strategy of the areas.
• Maintaining an understanding of the regulatory environment, regulatory drivers and business strategies, both current and anticipated, to enable effective evaluation of Compliance plans and efficacy of Compliance activities to drive the right outcomes in the business that should be reflected in monitoring work undertaken.
• Developing the monitoring methodologies, tools, templates and training to effectively assure Compliance risk frameworks, policies, activities, controls, change and IT systems to ensure they achieve the right outcomes and comply with Barclays policies and standards.
• Ensuring all monitoring work is appropriately communicated to stakeholders, so they ‘buy-in’ to reviews undertaken and stakeholders can see the value they add.
• Ensuring the team is adequately supervised to ensure that relevant risks, controls and outcomes in scope have been identified and appropriately assured and that adequately skilled resources are available to complete the work.

Use your more than 10 years compliance experience together with more than 3 years people management experience to take the lead in this portfolio. A relevant B-degree with Honours and banking experience is also key.

Education

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