Risk Assurance Manager at Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• To deliver an annual assurance plan ensuring regulation, policies and procedures are being applied appropriately by completing deep dive, thematic and monitoring reviews right across the bank through a team off risk assurance specialists.

Are You Someone Who Can

• Development and facilitation of comprehensive, well-considered risk assurance plans that cover the assessment of key controls, large or complex projects, health checks triggered by external events or identified hotspots for control weaknesses across the Invest Pillar.
• Preparing, agreeing, implementing, and monitoring an assurance map in line with the requirements set out in the FirstRand combined assurance standard.
• Assurance planning is to be carried out in combination with other assurance providers, including compliance, operational and IT risk, MCoE, ERM, internal audit and external audit. through continuous engagements with audit, ensure that the combined assurance model remains well-functioning and robust.
• To effectively execute combined assurance engagements during the financial period, it is important that the impacted areas for review are identified, and coverage areas are specifically allocated.
• Plan, perform and report on due diligence reviews
• Plan, perform and report on continuous quality assurance reviews.
• Ensure that findings arising from these reviews and reviews from Group Internal audit and are tracked through to resolution.
• Develop and maintain a risk-based approach which will be used by the Quality Assurance team in performing reviews.
• Develop Process, Risks and Controls Matrices (PRCMs) and working papers that will be followed by the Quality Assurance team.
• Develop and maintain a quality assurance methodology which will govern how reviews are conducted.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You 

• Qualification: Degree in Legal, Risk or Audit
• Years of experience: Minimum 8 years
• Industry: Financial Services, preferably banking

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging working
• Opportunities to innovate

Deadline:31st January,2026