Senior Manager Compliance & Reporting at MultiChoice

The role is critical to driving, enabling and ensuring the talent portfolio for HR delivers customer centric, compliance services and support across the organisation and sub companies. The position will be the custodian for overall compliance reporting on behalf of the Group Executive Head of HR, establishing and maturing talent insights, BBBEE and EE talent transformation strategies and metrics and proactive talent analytics support for Exco and board compliance reporting.

Key Performance Objectives
Tasks
Compliance Strategy & Management

• Accountable for the talent compliance and reporting function end to end. Directly responsible for managing and delivering on reporting and compliance requirements for the Group Talent Head and Group Executive Multichoice Group
• Direct and manage the talent related reporting and compliance requirements including but not limited to BBBEE (Skills development, Management Control) and employment equity, inclusive of other elements for global compliance including people elements of the Global Reporting Index
• Ensure proactive management and delivery of insights and reports for internal governance committees and ensure full compliance by the organization on assigned compliance portfolios. This includes reporting requirements for REMCO, Social Ethics Committee, Transformation Committee, and Group Exco
• Collaborate with Senior Manager Learning & Development and Senior Manager Talent Management to establish plans and interventions that delivers upon the transformation targets and commitments by the group and respective companies
• Proactively scan and manage regulatory landscape on changes both global and South Africa local impacting Multichoice group and companies and proactively manage operations to drive compliance

Compliance Operations

• Accountable for the compliance submissions, reporting and management related to Skills Development and Employment Equity/ Management Control
• Oversee and manage planning and governance of compliance requirements related to management control, employment equity and skills development including – SETA engagement, workplace skills plan and annual training report
• Collaborate with industry and governmental partners to scan for potential legislative changes. Prepare proactive plans and scenarios to ensure business is best positioned to manage and ensure compliance
• Curate and manage the BBBEE skills compliance requirements and work closely with SM Learning & Development on interventions and monitoring
• Oversee the B-BBEE audit. Organize and conduct the Management Control and Skills Development element B-BBEE assessment process for the B-BBEE audit
• Establish partnership with Learning, Talent, HRBP and business to drive management and reporting on Skills Development, management control & Employment Equity reports
• Proactively plan and collaborate with vendor partners, auditors to ensure full compliance by the group and companies for BBBEE and EE compliance reports
• Ensure BBBEE reports are accurate and distributed timeously to stakeholders to improve decisions on achieving transformation targets
• Implementation & Monitoring of key skills programmes in partnership with Learning & Talent team
• Responsible jointly with SM Learning & Development to ensure the group and companies receive the highest possible BBBEE rating and clean audit assessments

Compliance Systems Management

• Establish department that is customer centric, proactive and positive in approach that grows the brand and reputation of HR compliance portfolio
• Establish strategies, governance, standards, policies, procedures, systems, reporting/dashboards to effectively manage and operate the portfolio
• Ensure all BBBEE systems are accurate and updated, including up to date people, training spend, occupational data, company structure information, training interventions
• Establish ways of working with Learning & Talent teams to ensure learning plans, budgets and actuals are accurately captured on system
• Drive and manage accurate timeous monthly and quarterly reports to the relevant internal management forums and ensuring action Items are resolved as per expectations
• Central conduit for all talent compliance and reporting requirements, ensuring stakeholders are enabled with up to date insights for decisions

People Management

• Implement Human Capital strategy to ensure effective delivery of people practices across the department and to attract, identify, retain and develop the best people and create an environment that enhances the organisation’s reputation as a place where the best people work
• Work with the team to achieve excellent business results through continuous people development and mentoring activities.
• Ensure the development of a high-performing team through embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching.
• Determine and analyse training and development needs for team members and ensure implementation thereof. Ensure that identified training is budgeted for and executed.
• Establish and maintain a succession plan for the management team in the area using the formal Talent Management process for identified talent and an informal process for remaining roles.
• With the support from the HR, interview and recruit direct reports and provide support to them during the recruitment of their teams on request.
• Ensure that all poor performance is addressed through the Performance Improvement Programme and that continued poor performance is adequately dealt with. Review Performance Improvement Programme reports to determine effectiveness of interventions
• Build customer-centric, positive, and highly responsive approach to customers and stakeholders

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Commerce/ Human Resources, preferable Masters Degree
• BBBEE Management Development Programme or NQF aligned BBBEE Managers Course

Experience

• Preferred, experience as verification partner for BBBEE with demonstrated experience to lead complex compliance portfolio and up to date understanding across SA legislative landscape
• + 8 year experience in managing and driving compliance portfolio and reports for listed entity. Critical is in depth hands on experience in BBBEE, particularly with Skills, management control and employment equity focus. Ideally, experience as Employment equity manager in medium to large enterprise
• Competent in engaging and managing executive stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in report preparation, data management and writing for executive audience
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams and influencing across boundaries

Technical Competencies (List the key technical competencies)

• Learning
• Training
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Skills Development

Behavioural Competencies (List the key behavioural competencies)

• Relationship Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Decision Making
• Critical Appraisal
• Holistic Thinking
• Persuading & Influence
• Coaching