Head, Non-Financial Risk, Organisational Resilience at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• To lead the Group's Systemic Organisational Resilience Risk Cluster, providing integrated second-line oversight of key resilience risk domains. This role identifies, integrates, and governs systemic vulnerabilities across the operational ecosystem (technology, cyber, third-party, and operational resilience).
• By aggregating cross-risk insights, it ensures cohesive, mature capabilities, enabling effective management of systemic disruption and fostering a resilient operational architecture.
• Lead the Organisational Resilience Risk Cluster, comprising Technology Risk, Cyber / Information Security Risk, Third-Party Risk, and Operational / Business Resilience Risk to ensure a holistic and integrated approach to managing resilience-critical risks.
• Lead and develop a team of risk professionals, including Risk Type Heads, fostering collaboration across resilience-critical risk disciplines to build a high-performing and integrated risk function.
• Provide cross-risk integration, governance, aggregated resilience risk insight, systemic vulnerability identification, and maturity challenge across these domains, complementing the technical accountability of respective Risk Type Heads to achieve a cohesive and continuously improving resilience posture.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Degree in Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Risk Management
• Preferred: Masters Degree in Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Risk Management

Experience Required
Operational Risk Management

• 10+ years of experience in financial services industry, with an extensive understanding of Financial Services products and services, underlying system operations, and practices.
• Demonstrated executive presence, with the ability to engage and communicate at the executive level, establish, and maintain collaborative partnerships and provide thought leadership to strategic decisions. Regulatory environment savvy, a proven track record in large scale and high-level leadership.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Challenging Ideas
• Convincing People
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Exploring Possibilities
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Seizing Opportunities
• Upholding Standards
• Valuing Individuals

Technical Competencies:

• Evaluating Risk Management Effectiveness
• Evaluation of Internal Controls
• Financial Acumen
• Managerial Budgeting
• Operational Planning
• Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
• Policy Development
• Promote Good Governance, Risk & Control
• Quality Management
• Quality Orientation
• Risk Awareness
• Risk Identification
• Risk Management
• Risk Measurement
• Risk Reporting
• Risk Response Strategy
• Risk/ Reward Thinking
• Root Cause Analysis
• Strategy Definition