At Liberty we believe that when knowledge rolls up its sleeves, people’s realities change. And that’s what we do; we change realities every day. Since 1957 we’ve grown from being a South African life insurer to a Pan-African financial services company, offering asset management, investment, insurance and health products. Our thirst for knowledge is emb...
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5 years’ experience in Risk Management with 2 years in Investment / Insurance experience
Key Requirements
Provide guidelines and oversight to ensure the identification and assessment of business risk in order to create awareness and manage risk accordingly.
Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
Keep abreast of regulation and industry developments to advise and guide on key compliance risk issues; enabling informed decision making.
Coordinate investigations in order to establish and verify facts that leads to the identification and reduction of business risks.
Coordinate and collaborate with various risk teams to ensure alignment and minimize risk.
Partner with business to facilitate risk practices and entrench operational risk management practices.
Provide assurance and effective management of operational risk for area accountable for to minimize operational risk.
Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience
Skills
Risk and governance experience.
An understanding of insurance business principles.
An understanding of the business objectives (strategic, business and operating model) of the different businesses.
An understanding of the risk environment in which the different business units operate.
Understand the legal implications and pitfalls of insurance legislation and policy wordings.