Principal Specialist: ERM Execution at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Provide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) execution for Corporate Centre functions and Group entities to identify, assess and mitigate risks.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Conduct Group-wide risk assessments to enable effective integration with Strategy, Finance and other Group Functions and to ensure risk mitigation strategies for identified risks are developed and implemented.
• Execute risk assessments for the Sasol Group legal entities, trusts, Group-led initiatives and Group-led projects (including coded M&A projects).
• Ensure implementation of corrective actions as identified through the risk assessment process.
• Provide inputs from the Businesses and Group Functions for the identified Group top risk themes and collaborate in influencing the development and review processes for the Group to risks.
• Conduct risk integration and aggregation across the Group to support and enable the review and analysis of the Group top risk themes.
• Ensure application of Sasol risk policy, risk breakdown structure, processes and standards across the Corporate Centre functions.
• Support the development of Combined Assurance landscapes and plans for the top business risk themes.
• Participate and report on ERM principles and practices at various Sasol Group governance bodies.
• Plan, coordinate and execute Group crisis simulation exercises.
• Review, process, and act upon the risk information gathered across the organisation.
• Keep abreast of the changing risk landscape and assess the potential impact to Sasol.
• Ensure a strong collaboration exists on ERM execution activities across the Sasol Group.

Formal Education

• Post Graduate Honours Degree in Accounting, Commerce or Engineering

Min Experience

• 12 years relevant experience

Competencies

• Decisiveness: Decision Making is an ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Ethical behaviour: Ethics is a moral consideration of the activities of an organization on a system / code of conduct that is based on universal moral duties and obligations which indicate how one should behave. It deals with the ability to distinguish good from evil, right from wrong, and propriety from impropriety.
• Organising: Work Organization is ability to organize tasks, assignments, resources and projects and then lay out, prioritize and shape activities to meet objectives.
• Risk Management: The process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk.  Strategies employed may include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular risk.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Professionalism: Professionalism is a demonstrated knowledge of the written and unwritten rules and understandings governing professionally acceptable behaviour.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Working Across Organizational Lines: Working Across Organizational Lines is understanding the interrelationships among key events by learning how problems fit into the bigger picture and confronting interdepartmental issues. Effectively working and communicating across functional boundaries. Influencing others without authority or direct control.