Senior Risk Manager at Santam Insurance

What will make you successful in this role?

• Lead the team in driving the embedding of a risk management process to identify, mitigate, monitor, report and escalate key strategic and operational risks within the parameters of the Board’s risk appetite.
• Support the Head of ERM in monitoring the Group’s risk profile to ensure that key risks are managed, relevant action taken, and adequate controls have been implemented by management.
• Overall coordination and aggregation of all key risks within the Santam Group for Risk Committee reporting purposes to provide a summary and overview of Santam’s key risks.
• Track the implementation of the ERM plan. Escalate issues (timing, incorrect focus) with the Head of ERM.
• Obtain a good understanding of the external and internal business environment, including strategic and operational goals in order to evaluate and identify any new and emerging risks.
• Drive the analysis of operational events occurring throughout the Group and link to the overall risk profile per SBU and for Group. 
• Validation of risk data in CURA to ensure risks and incidents are captured accurately. Escalation of issues to Head of ERM to drive with the ERM Managers accountable for relationships. 
• Scanning the external environment for threats and opportunities that could affect the Santam group risk profile.
• Drive and coordinate regulatory submissions.
• End-to-end management of all governance documents (policies, charters, and frameworks). Including annual review and preparation for approval in the November board cycle.

Qualification and Experience

• Business-related degree
• 10-15 years’ experience (role requires management skills).

Skills

• Strong written and verbal skills
• Dynamic engager
• Delivery/results orientated
• Highly self-motivated individual
• Proactive
• Fast learner
• Inquisitive personality
• Independent thinker

Knowledge

• Operational loss management
• Analytics
• Reporting
• Internal Control 
• Performing under pressure
• Self-confidence and assertiveness to work independently in achieving desired results
• Negotiating and influencing
• Applying expertise and technology
• Analysing and interpreting
• Learning and researching
• Oral and written communication
• Problem solving 
• Maintain confidentiality
• Good judgement
• Strategic thinking
• Data Collection