Compliance Officer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• Individually accountable for establishing a compliance framework; including Risk Management and Monitoring plan. Embeds compliance, directly and/or through staff supervised over periods of 3 months to a year. Initiates and facilitates corrective action where required

Responsibilities
Regulatory and Compliance Management

• Investigate all kinds of incidents and reports and provide expert advice to more senior colleagues. Minimize risk exposures and ensure adherence with regulatory standards by working with all internal functions to make sure compliance programs are properly implemented.

Regulatory Affairs

• Take responsibility for managing and delivering a designated work program.

Quality Management System

• Contribute to the identification and evaluation of current policies and business processes that are in the scope of the quality management system (QMS); contribute to the design of the QMS; provide specialist quality management input to the drafting of new policies and procedures and the design of business processes; contribute to the quantification of the costs and business benefits of change.

Audit Compliance

• Manage a portfolio of audit assignments. Ensure that the team plans and delivers audits that cover identified risk areas, and that appropriate corrective actions are agreed on with auditees. Resolve issues arising from audits and refer serious or contentious issues to the audit program leader.

Quality Assurance Testing Design

• Validate new or existing complex test methods and procedures; identify issues and recommend improvements to contribute to further development.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Contribute to stakeholder engagement by identifying stakeholders; by finding out their needs, issues, and concerns; and by reacting to these needs, issues, and concerns, arranging meetings and events and drafting supporting materials to promote understanding and commitment.

Leadership and Direction

• Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.

Performance Management

• Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality, and contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.

Organizational Capability Building

• Provide coaching to team members to develop their skills.

Budgeting

• Track budgets and report variances to more senior colleagues.

Competencies

• Action Oriented
• Balances Stakeholders
• Communicates Effectively
• Financial Acumen
• Instills Trust
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Manages Complexity
• Optimizes Work Processes

Closing Date

• 11 March 2025 , 23:59