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  • Posted: Feb 5, 2026
    Deadline: Feb 28, 2026
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  • Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, formerly MMI Holdings, is a South African-based financial services group was established on 1 Dec 2010, through the merger of Metropolitan and Momentum. We are specialists in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investments, healthcare administration, health risk management, employee benefits and reward...
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    Group: Snr IT Risk Management – Momentum Group Coordination

    Role Purpose    

    • Group Snr IT Risk Management (Group Coordination) is responsible for orchestrating, integrating, and elevating IT risk management across the Momentum Group’s federated operating model. The role provides group-wide visibility, consistency, and insight into IT and technology-related risks by coordinating across Business Units, identifying common themes and systemic risks, and ensuring effective reporting, remediation, and regulatory alignment.
    • This role is not a BU execution role, but a group coordination, facilitation, and risk-intelligence role, enabling strong risk outcomes through collaboration, influence, and structured oversight.

    Requirements    

    Experience

    • 8 years’ experience in risk management, with primary depth in IT Risk Management
    • Strong grounding in Enterprise Risk Management within a complex organisation
    • Experience operating in federated or multi-business group environments

    Proven exposure to:

    • IT risk frameworks and assessments
    • Audit processes and regulatory engagement
    • Board and executive-level risk reporting

    Industry Experience:

    • Financial services experience strongly preferred
    • Experience in regulated environments with evolving technology and cyber risk landscapes

    Qualifications

    Relevant tertiary qualification in:

    • Risk Management
    • Information Systems
    • Technology, Audit, or related discipline
    • Professional certifications advantageous:
    • CRISC, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, or equivalent
    • Risk or governance-related certifications

    Duties & Responsibilities    

    Group-Wide IT Risk Integration

    • Coordinate IT risk management activities across all Business Units within the federated group model
    • Build and maintain a group-level view of IT risk, consolidating BU risk profiles into umbrella and systemic risk themes
    • Identify cross-cutting risks, interdependencies, and concentration risks that may not be visible at BU level
    • Facilitate alignment on risk interpretation, assessment approaches, and treatment strategies across BUs

    Risk Insight, Trend Analysis & Thematic Identification

    • Analyse IT risk data, incidents, audit findings, and remediation plans across the group to identify emerging patterns and recurring themes
    • Develop forward-looking risk insights, including emerging technology risks, regulatory impacts, and operational vulnerabilities
    • Drive group-wide discussions on common risk drivers and potential coordinated remediation approaches

    Reporting & Governance Enablement

    Support and coordinate group IT risk reporting for:

    • Board-Level Committees
    • Management Risk Committees
    • Regulatory submissions
    • Translate complex IT and technology risks into clear, decision-useful risk narratives for senior leadership
    • Ensure consistency, quality, and completeness of IT risk reporting across the group
    • Secondary Accountability: Risk Enablement, Assurance & Regulatory Alignment

    Audit Coordination & Assurance Support

    • Maintain an IT risk audit landscape, tracking audit coverage, themes, and outcomes across BUs
    • Support BUs in responding to audit findings and ensure visibility of remediation progress at group level
    • Identify audit-driven themes that indicate systemic weaknesses or control design issues

    Remediation Facilitation & Issue Oversight

    • Support and facilitate remediation of IT risk issues across BUs, particularly where issues are common or systemic
    • Facilitate cross-BU collaboration on remediation strategies and good practices
    • Track progress of key IT risk actions and escalate where risks remain unresolved or delayed

    Regulatory & Compliance Monitoring

    Monitor and interpret key technology-related regulatory and supervisory requirements, including:

    • Cyber resilience and technology risk standards
    • IT resilience and operational continuity requirements
    • Data protection and privacy-related obligations (in collaboration with the DPO)
    • Translate regulatory expectations into group-level risk implications and actions
    • Work with relevant stakeholders to coordinate compliance responses and remediation efforts

    Key Relationships & Collaboration

    • This role is heavily relationship-driven and depends on trust, credibility, and influence rather than authority.
    • Build strong, constructive relationships with BU IT Risk Managers and Risk Officers
    • Act as a connector between IT Risk, Information Security, Data Privacy, BCM, and Enterprise Risk
    • Facilitate risk conversations that encourage openness, learning, and shared ownership
    • Support a culture of risk awareness, accountability, and proactive management

    Competencies    

    Technical & Risk Competencies

    • Enterprise and IT risk management frameworks
    • Technology risk, cyber risk, data risk, and IT resilience
    • Audit coordination and issue remediation
    • Regulatory interpretation and compliance alignment
    • Risk reporting and governance structures

    Analytical & Strategic Skills

    • Ability to synthesise large volumes of risk information into clear group-level insights
    • Strong thematic and trend analysis capability
    • Strategic thinking with attention to operational realities

    Expected Behavioral Attributes

    • This role succeeds on how the work is done as much as what is delivered.
    • Collaborative and facilitative – brings people together rather than imposing solutions
    • Credible and grounded – trusted by peers and senior leaders alike
    • Influential communicator – able to translate risk into language that drives action
    • Structured and disciplined – strong follow-through and consistency
    • Curious and forward-looking – anticipates emerging risks and connects dots early
    • Resilient and steady – comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity

    Closing Date    

    • 2026/02/11

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