Compliance Manager

FirstRand Bank Limited; Johannesburg; Sur place; ZAR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

FirstRand Bank Limited is seeking an experienced Compliance Manager to provide dedicated compliance oversight for the Toyota Financial Services portfolio within WesBank. You will partner with business stakeholders to ensure regulatory adherence, implement risk management practices, and promote governance and ethical conduct.

The role requires expertise in NCA, CPA, FAIS, FICA, POPIA and AML/KYC, with a focus on end-to-end compliance management and stakeholder engagement within financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Law, Compliance, Risk Management, Finance or Commerce.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a Compliance Specialist, Senior Compliance Officer, or Compliance Manager role in Financial Services.
• Experience in end-to-end compliance risk management and regulatory advisory.
• Experience developing and implementing Compliance Risk Management Plans (CRMPs).
• Strong knowledge of NCA, CPA, FAIS, FICA, POPIA and AML/KYC requirements.
• Experience conducting compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and control effectiveness reviews.

Responsabilités

• Provide compliance advisory support to business stakeholders.
• Interpret regulatory requirements and communicate them in a practical business context.
• Develop and maintain CRMPs and compliance monitoring programmes.
• Identify compliance risks, control weaknesses and remediation actions.
• Conduct monitoring and report on outcomes, trends and KPIs.
• Investigate and escalate compliance incidents and regulatory concerns.
• Deliver regulatory training and awareness initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor customer feedback and align processes to maximise efficiencies.
• Provide regular reports on service delivery against SLAs.

Connaissances

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory advisory

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Law or related field

Description du poste

Job Description

Job Description To ensure there is implementation of the Group’s compliance frameworks and programmes in consultation with business ensure conformance and adherence with regulations and delivers through a team of Compliance resources/specialists. Ensure adherence of organisation policies and procedures, especially regulatory and ethical standards. Perform regular audits, design control systems and help to design and implement company policies.

About the Role

Hello, future Compliance Manager We are seeking an experienced Compliance Manager to provide dedicated compliance oversight and advisory support to the Toyota Financial Services portfolio within WesBank. The successful candidate will partner with business stakeholders to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, implement effective compliance risk management practices, and promote a strong culture of governance and ethical conduct.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide compliance advisory support to Toyota Financial Services and WesBank business stakeholders.
• Interpret and communicate regulatory and legislative requirements in a practical business context.
• Develop and maintain Compliance Risk Management Plans (CRMPs) and compliance monitoring programmes.
• Identify compliance risks, control weaknesses, and remediation actions.
• Conduct compliance monitoring and report on outcomes, trends, and key risk indicators.
• Investigate and investigate and escalation compliance incidents, breaches, and regulatory concerns.
• Support compliance with NCA, CPA, FAIS, FICA, POPIA, AML/KYC and related financial services legislation.
• Deliver regulatory training and compliance awareness initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external business partners.
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery.
• Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data.
• Provide regular reports on delivery of services against agreed service level agreements.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Monitor customer feedback reports and align processes to maximise efficiencies.
• Analyse and interpret regulation and legislation and using a risk-based approach.
• Identification and risk rating of applicable laws and regulations for responsible business units.
• Compiling monitoring reports on the results of monitoring.
• Incident reporting, to ensure timeous escalation of compliance risks and incidents.
• Interpret regulation and legislation and assist business units with practical implementation.
• Research and communicate applicable legislative developments to all stakeholders.
• Provide training on regulatory requirements.
• Maintain knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and internal compliance procedures and requirements.
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organisation and review in response to audit findings and changes.

Qualifications

• A relevant bachelor's degree in Law, Compliance, Risk Management, Finance, Commerce, or equivalent qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a Compliance Specialist, Senior Compliance Officer, or Compliance Manager role within Financial Services.
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end compliance risk management and regulatory advisory.
• Experience developing and implementing Compliance Risk Management Plans (CRMPs).
• Strong knowledge of NCA, CPA, FAIS, FICA, POPIA and AML/KYC requirements.
• Experience conducting compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and control effectiveness reviews.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Experience within banking, vehicle finance, credit, or retail financial services will be advantageous.

Benefits

• Opportunity to play a key role in supporting one of South Africa's leading vehicle finance partnerships.
• Exposure to a broad range of regulatory, governance, and compliance matters.
• A collaborative environment focused on innovation, customer outcomes, and responsible lending.
• The opportunity to influence business decisions and strengthen compliance risk management across the portfolio.

Company Overview

FirstRand provides a comprehensive range of financial services in South Africa and certain markets in broader Africa. The group also offers certain niche products and services in the UK and India. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX), FirstRand Limited is the largest financial institution by market capitalisation in Africa. The group follows a multi-branding approach. Its portfolio of financial services businesses includes FNB, RMB, WesBank, Ashburton Investments, Aldermore, MotoNovo and DirectAxis. Many are leaders in their respective segments and markets, offering transactional, lending, investment and insurance products and services. The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The group's track record of delivering superior returns to shareholders has been achieved through a combination of organic growth, acquisitions, innovation and the creation of completely new businesses. The group’s purpose of delivering Shared Prosperity provides many opportunities for employees to innovate to address social and environmental challenges in our markets. All of our businesses have successful Volunteering programmes which also allow employees to adopt and support causes close to their hearts.

Equal Opportunity & Employment Equity

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan.

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