Lead Specialist: Risk at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist risk expertise.
• The ideal incumbent will be required to learn New Ways of Working capabilities using Microsoft Azure and Agile Framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for contributing to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
• Advise on and ensure the development and implementation of area specific methodologies and frameworks; ensuring appropriate implementation and use.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.
• Manage and encourage people, optimise their outputs and effectively manage relationships, to achieve organisational goals.  
• Actively seeks opportunities to acquire and develop relevant knowledge to apply at work. Supports, provides training, mentors and guides broader team members on Risk management principles and processes.
• Prepare reports for various Governance Committees within the business cluster, across the broader group as well as to in-country Governance Committees as required.

Minimum Experience

• 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level.
• Experience in engaging with Stakeholders at all levels, including Senior Management as well as at Board level.
• Experience in risk management methodologies, tools, governance structures and regulatory requirements for good management of risk.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Business, Commerce and Management Studies.
• CA(SA) preferred.
• MBA would be advantageous.