Snr Officer: Comb Assurance & Intnl Cntr at Road Accident Fund

Key Performance Areas

Combined Assurance

• Cordinate the development of the Combined Assurance plans for the designated area of responsibility or processing centres.
• Conduct assessments of interdependencies and overlap between various combined assurance providers and potential tradeoffs.
• Implement a combined assurance governance framework in the designated area of responsibility or processing centre.
• Coordinate Combined Assurance and internal control activities in the designated area of responsibility or processing centre.
• Planning, monitoring and quality review of assurance work done at the designated area of responsibility or processing centre.
• Maintain a Combined Assurance dashboard of overdue and repeat findings from all the assurance providers

Internal Control

• Assist the Manager: Combined Assurance with coordination of internal controls activities in the designated operational area or processing centre.
• Assist with identifying, quantifying and prioritising risks and recommending appropriate risk mitigation plans.
• Assist with reviewing and analysis of operational procedures to identify potential control risks and failures introduced through standard operating procedures and to recommend control improvements.
• Assist management to develop control improvement plans, key controls and indicators to pro actively identify potential control failure.
• Monitor progress against the implementation of control action plans in response to combines assurance reviews and Key Control Indicators on a regular basis to reduce the risk of control failures.
• Develop quarterly trend analysis reports.
• Continuously monitor any internal errors to ensure that issues are resolved speedily by management.
• Participate in assurance activities of the designated area of responsibility or processing centre to identify potential non compliance or by-passing of control procedures e.g. BSC, BEC etc.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of Regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.

Stakeholder Relations

• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Risk Management/ Governance/ Compliance/ Auditing related qualification.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a Combined Assurance/ Risk Management/ Internal Audit/ Internal Controls related environment.