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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• The purpose of LBI Risk Governance and Reporting function is to support Head of Risk to discharge the primary responsibility of risk governance and risk reporting aspects and the oversight/ coordination aspects of the financial soundness  and key entity level controls. The function will be coordinate and support the development and implementation of the LBI risk governance framework, supporting processes and reporting. This is a manner that meets business and regulatory  requirements. Through the key entity level controls, provide the requisite assurance to the Senior Management (Exco) on the overall internal control framework and the implementation Risk policies across LBI entities.

Key Performance Areas 

Risk Management Strategy and Risk Management Plan formulation

• Drafting and preparing strategic risk appetite and risk management tools to scope direction for business.
• Ensure that the Enterprise Risk Management Framework is integrated with Regulatory requirements.
• Support Head of Risk with the planning the strategic risk identification.
• Facilitate review of the risk appetite statements to ensure it remain appropriate and recommend changes to Management Risk Committee where necessary
• Develop and monitor of appropriate key risk indicators together with assicited tolerances limts and related reporting.
• Undertake periodic risk assessment working with the various risk owner and ensure that risk register are kept up to date i.e. Fraud Risk register
• Facilitate the implementation of the annual Risk Management plan.
• Critical review of existing and/or development of new risk report to ensure that they are suitable and useful to aid in decision making

Embedding of Risk GovernanceSystems

• Manage the Own Risk and Slovency Assessment (ORSA) process including coordinating all related inputs, outputs and assessment
• Manage all other regulatory reporting i.e. Qualitative Regulatory Reporting (QRR)
• Establish and maintain an effective Policy governance framework
• Oversee the policy review process and ensure that policy are timeously presented to relevant committee for recommendation and approval
• Facilitate the annual policy attestation with relevant policy owner
• Facilitate risk policy training in collaboration with the policy owners
• provide the requisite assurance to the Senior Management (Exco) on the overall internal control framework and the implementation Risk policies across LBI entities.

Risk Function Advisory and Reporting

• Monitoring of the business performance against agreed objectives as stated in the corporate plan
• Support business with the business planning phase, by coordinating and consolidating BU input into strategy and corporate plan
• Keep abrest with industry and regulatory development and assessing against impact on the current LBI model and strategy
• Develop and monitoring of risk appetite, risk register, loss data, combined assurance, key indicatrs and emerging risks
• Aggregating, monitoring and advising management on the effective management and mitigation of identifies risks
• Preparation, submission and/or presentation of risk reports to the various stakeholders in forums such as Exco, MRC and ARC and other governance related forum within the business
• Establishing and maintaining combined assurance model

Develop and maintain a consistent client focused environment coupled with best practice service delivery

• Build and maintain relation with internal clinets and stakeholders across LBI and LB
• Manage the rollout of risk initiatives effectively within LBI
• Be the lead in supporting the Auditor General review by providing any RFI
• Provide Risk policy training in conjuction with policy owners
• Provide training on key elemets of the ERMF

Stakeholder engagement and coordination of enterprise risk related committees, meetings and initiatives

• Contribute to the planning of the Exco, Management Risk Committee (MRC) and Audit and Risk Committee meetings
• Support BU management to ensure that strategic decisions within the business areas take full accountability of the current and emerging enterprise risk profile
• Recommend value add risk management solutions to reduce the risk of re- occurrence and impact
• Ensure that risk issues identified are monitored, reported, escalated to relevant person/s & Committee/s and corrective actions are taken
• Represent risk at key stakeholder forums
• Preferred Minimum Education and Experience     
• Post Graduate Qualification, Preferably  in Risk Management 
• A member of the Institute of Risk Management of South Africa (IRMSA)
• 8-10 years Risk management function, preferably in insurance companies
• 4-6 years experience in Risk Governance and Reporting
• 5 years experience with Regulatory reporting i.e. ORSA and QRR
• 3 years experience in leadership or management position

Critical Competencies    

• Enterprise wide Risk Management Framework and Strategy Setting 
• Embedding a Risk and Ethics culture & Building a Value based Ethics program
• Strategy Planning, Crafting, Implementation and Reporting
• Establishing, implementing and maintaining appropriate mechanism and activities (including a risk strategy, risk management  plan and risk management reporting) in respect of Enterprise Risk Management Framewrok, Risk Governance and Social and Ethics
• Governance Risk and Compliance Systems such as CURA
• Strategic analysis
• Ethics Monitoring

Additional Requirements            

• Travel as and when required
• Long hours as and when required

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Job Advert Summary      

• To manage and facilitate all change management initiatives and ensure projects meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage within operational initiatives, projects, and facilitate and foster a structured approach in managing the impact of change.

Key Performance Areas 

Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities

• Development of the all five sections of the change life cycle framework
• Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
• Review, analyse, assess and evaluate the impact of business changes on various stakeholders, and define and co-ordinate change management solutions that will ensure that a smooth transition is achieved.
• Understand and apply change methodology to determine and analyse current state versus desired state within projects & change requests and make detailed and appropriate recommendations to key stakeholders on change actions required

Implement effective Stakeholder Management strategy plan and reporting

• Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders
• Provide proactive coaching and consultation to stakeholders & work groups and provide change management interventions where required.
• Conducts a detailed analysis of the relevant projects requirements, business division activities and processes.
• Facilitates any required sessions/training or workshops and engages with business owners and project sponsors or project resources to ensure that business needs and challenges can be clearly understood and interpreted.

Implement effective Communication strategy and plan

• Support the design, development, delivery and management of communication
• Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan
• Support project communication efforts

Manage change initiatives and training within the organisation

• Change initiative management
• Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs.
• Project Conduct training effort
• Integrate change management activities into project plan

Ensure that the change is embedded and desired benefits are achieved.

• Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
• Support change management at the organizational level
• Manage the change portfolio
• Coach managers and supervisors

Monitor and stay abreast of technological, legal and operational changes in the change management environment.

• Monitor and stay abreast of technological, legal and operational changes in the change management environment (Innovation and Growth)

Project Management

• Execution and Risk Control
• Execute and manage projects according to the agreed project plan from the beginning until completion.
• Ensure that project deliverables and agreed milestones are met and that overall project performance is in accordance with the requirements of the project plan, company policies and procedures and adopted project management principles
• Maintain the project plan during the entire project to enable tracking and reporting over the full cycle of the project stages
• Maintain awareness of potential interdependencies with other projects and their impact and intervene or escalate where necessary
• Adopt appropriate technical and quality strategies and standards
• Use relevant tools to keep track of people and progress
• Regularly liaise with appointed project resources to assure the overall direction and maintain integrity of the project
• Manage project risks, identify new risks and conduct a risk assessment

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience  

• 3 Year relevant B-degree/National Diploma.
• 10 years Change Management experience.
• 5 – 8 years Project Management experience.
• Critical Competencies     
• MS Office
• Change Management function/strategies/techniques and practices.
• Business Acumen
• Information Technology knowledge
• Project management
• Stakeholder Management
• Additional Requirements              
• Formal change management methodologies.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies.

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To developed and implement and tactically manage all ethics initiatives at operational level in the organisation. 

Key Performance Areas 

• Develop and implement a compliance monitoring plan using accepted standards, methodologies and tools
• Design detailed CRMP’s for Ethics and implement for monitoring and control improvement
• Conduct thorough internal investigations on non-compliance issues and breaches of Ethics policies.
• Take leading role in coordinating internal and external audits including inspections with Regulators.
• Develop management reports, including ethics and fraud risk watch list report and disseminate to various stakeholders.
• Provide the Social Ethics Committee with assurance that business units throughout the Bank have appropriate ethics risk management processes in place.
• Establish a compliance framework

Develop and implement robust internal controls and compliance programs: Governance; Compliance; Assurance and Monitoring Oversight (Bank-wide) 

• Monitoring Bank’s activities and deliberations to ensure the respect of the Values and Principles included in the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct
• Develop management reports, including risk watch list report and disseminate to various stakeholders.
• Resolving ethics and fraud issues as they arise
• Liaise with the Internal Audit Department to facilitate the generation of a ethics risk based Internal Audit plan.
• Develop ethics risk intelligence systems to predict and identify emerging ethics risks.
• Partner with Compliance and Product stakeholders to ensure ethics are considered and built as part of new product or other initiatives.
• Ensure timely remediation of all relevant findings identified by third-parties (Internal Audit, regulatory exams), as well as self-identified items.

Governance and Compliance Oversight: Ethics Culture and Management. Establish best practice and create a sound compliance and ethics culture in the organisation

• Ensuring ethics considerations are embedded in decision-making processes;
• Acting as custodian and mediator of ethical and governance matters to protect the integrity of the Bank as a whole
• Ensuring all staff and management have updated Declarations of interest on more regular bases and in all meetings on record;
• Design, Develop and implement Ethics Policy, draft the ethics policy, and circulate the policy to management & Board for approval
• Perform the duties of an Ethics Officer for Land Bank and assist teams in this environment

Develop Ethics Risk Strategy and Clear Action plans to achieve highest level of Ethics maturity level

• To design new ethics strategy or review current one based on a detailed benchmarking exercise to inform the gaps and action plans
• To support ethics function and the Bank by ensuring ethical leadership and conduct across the Bank
• to contribute to the strategic functioning of Ethics by promoting ethical conduct and decision-making in all Bank activities;
• To lead the ongoing enforcement of the Code of Ethical Conduct
• Collaborate and partner with all business units and regions to implement, embed and enhance ethics by design.

Policy and Regulatory Compliance Reporting

• Supporting the CRO, CEO and Chairs with managing and mitigating identified ethical issues
• Policies & Procedures: Ensuring the adoption and implementation of the Code of Conduct by all
• Ensuring existing governance documents are periodically reviewed and revised as needed and endorsed by Governance structures
• Code of Conduct breaches are appropriately and timely reported,
• Promoting and supporting compliance with the Whistle-blowing Policy,
• Ensure that ethics and fraud risk policies are in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Design  & develop ethics and regulatory training Bank-wide

• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction
• Providing advice, ongoing guidance and support to all Executives and Board members, and staff
• Ensuring all staff, Executive, Board members are trained and aware of their roles and responsibilities;
• Tracking the completion of formal/physical and e-learning modules by all
• Oversee deployment of relevant ethics and fraud risk training for all employees.
• Facilitate orientation and training for the Board Committee and ensure the training of all stakeholders in their risk management functions.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience  

• Relevant 4-year tertiary qualification (B Com, LLB, Risk Management, Law degree) – Postgraduate. Plus professional accreditation in Ethics and related (i.e. CPrac; Ethics; CISA, Fraud etc.), must be a member of Ethics Institute and certified Ethics Officer
• 8 years experience in Compliance, Ethics, and Governance
• 2 years experience at Management level within Ethics, Compliance, governance 
• Critical Competencies     
• Policies and Procedures
• Ethics & Compliance Management principles
• Regulatory reporting and oversight on ethics and fraud
• Legislation and knowledge of legal frameworks on ethics & fraud
• Microsoft
• Compliance software’s and systems
• Process Engineer
• Legal knowledge
• Microsoft Office
• Governance

Additional Requirements            

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required