Regulatory Risk- Assistant Manager at Deloitte

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Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realise your full potential.

Job Description

• Evaluate legal and regulatory control design issues, develop mitigation plans, and assess and design regulatory controls procedures and policies
• Leads interactions with client’s business stakeholders to gather key information on regulatory controls components (e.g. control environment, risk assessment, control activities) to enable a comprehensive assessment
• Employs an analytics and technology-driven approach to regulatory controls assessment to enable real-time analysis and data-driven decisions
• Independently performs testing of regulatory controls for design and operating effectiveness
• Drives analysis of regulatory control deficiencies to prioritize gaps and develop targeted mitigation plans
• Assesses and develops policies and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Ability to assess various components of the client’s regulatory compliance system to identify gaps and prioritize solutions
• Conducts regulatory compliance current-state assessments, identifies gaps and prioritizes remediation by leveraging an in-depth understanding of regulations (current and potential) that are relevant to the client’s business
• Analyzes key components of the client’s regulatory reporting process (e.g., automation, documentation, review and approval) to identify gaps with leading practices.
• Assesses policies and procedures to analyze compliance with regulatory requirements and evaluate.
• Where necessary, reviewing legal agreements for the identification of risk for alignment to legislation
• Executing detailed common law and contract law research where necessary to support regulatory interpretation questions
• Development of opinions in respect of the impact of common law and regulation on the interpretation of contracts

Qualifications

• LLB Degree
• At least 2 years legal articles
• At least 3 or 4 years post articles work experience.
• 2 years’ consulting experience which must include at least 1 years’ regulatory interpretation and policy drafting experience.
• Legal and regulatory research across African jurisdictions.
• Legal and regulatory research in respect of digital and technology implementation projects
• Data and technology regulation experience advantageous

Additional Information

Technical Competencies:

• Technical expert in regulatory interpretation and policy drafting
• Technical expert in contract interpretation in the context of legisation
• Demonstrated project management skill
• Consulting skills
• Experience in drafting and presenting to clients
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding
• Business acumen
• Lexis Nexus
• Admitted attorney

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