Compliance Specialist at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

About the job:

The CSIR has a vacancy for a Compliance Specialist in the Legal and Compliance Portfolio. The incumbent will be responsible for providing support to the Manager: Compliance in all activities relating to managing the institutionalisation of compliance and ethics programmes and interventions across the CSIR. This position is based in Pretoria.

Key responsibilities:

• Documenting and maintaining the regulatory universe of the organisation whilst keeping abreast of regulatory developments which impact the CSIR;
• Continuously monitoring local and international trends and best practice initiatives to support the governance and management of ethics;
• Developing and maintaining ethics and compliance related codes, policies, frameworks, and statements for the CSIR;
• Developing and implementing Compliance Risk Management Plans and registers;
• Assisting in the review and implementation of the CSIR Fraud policies and prevention plan, and registers;
• Contributing to the development and implementation of the compliance monitoring and control testing plan;
• Providing substantive input into other business policies and procedures to ensure the effective and consistent integration of ethics and compliance requirements;
• Assisting in the management of the whistleblowing hotline and conducting end-to-end investigation of the reports received in an independent, impartial, and objective manner;
• Provide support to the Manager: Compliance in monitoring and reporting to relevant CSIR committees on the state of ethics and compliance;
• Identifying, assessing, and reporting of material compliance and ethics risks, and assisting management to develop controls to mitigate compliance and ethics risks identified in the business;
• Providing advisory services on an ad hoc basis on matters of ethics and compliance;
• Building professional relationships with stakeholders, and providing independent advice and guidance to employees and business functions on ethics and compliance related queries;
• Contributing to the ethics and compliance training and awareness plan, conducting training and awareness sessions and developing training material on ethics and compliance;
• Reviewing business conduct and governance practices and contributing to the promotion of a robust ethics and compliance culture within the organisation;
• Providing support to the Manager: Compliance in managing the different Compliance Committees.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• A Bachelor ‘s Degree in law, risk and internal audit with at least five years’ related compliance and ethics management experience;
• Knowledge of South Africa ‘s legislation and standards on good corporate governance;
• Experience in developing and implementing the compliance framework and performing compliance monitoring;
• Developing ways to minimize risks;
• Strong client service orientation with the ability to influence stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas;
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion;
• Sharing information in different ways to increase internal stakeholders’ understanding;
• Preparing and delivering presentations;
• High work standards;
• Excellent writing, organisational and problem-solving skills;
• Investigative skills;
• Knowledge of the South African regulatory framework for State Owned Entities will be an added advantage;
• All international qualifications require an evaluation report / certificate issued by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).

Closing date: 29 June 2023