Quality, Risk & Compliance Director

IQbusiness South Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

IQbusiness South Africa is seeking a finance, risk or audit leader to own quality, risk and governance across the service, ensuring independence and segregation-of-duties controls are designed, operated and evidenced. You will report to boards and audit committees and chair risk and governance forums, keeping the service controlled, neutral and audit-ready.

This role requires strong experience in risk management, internal controls, executive reporting and stakeholder management, with a practical

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) or equivalent qualification in risk, audit or compliance.
• At least 10 years in finance, risk, audit or governance leadership, including in regulated environments.
• Experience designing and testing controls, including segregation of duties; reporting to boards/auditors.

Responsibilities

• Own the control framework, policy and obligation register and role–and–access matrices.
• Run control testing and report results to risk and audit forums.
• Ensure no process goes live without explicit controls, ownership and evidence routes.
• Own conflict register, recusal log and quarterly reviews; investigate breaches and drive corrective action.
• Maintain risk register and report material risks; support internal/external audits with evidence packs.
• Chair quality and risk forums and collaborate with Compliance and Regulatory Lead.

Skills

Finance leadership

Risk management

Governance

Internal controls

Executive reporting

Independence & conflict management

Education

CA(SA) or equivalent

Tools

Excel (advanced)

GRC tools

Financial systems

Job description

We're seeking someone to give the client assurance that the service is controlled, neutral, compliant and audit-ready. To own quality, risk and governance across the service, and make sure independence and segregation-of-duties controls are designed, operated and evidenced.

The role suits a finance, risk or audit leader who is used to reporting to boards and audit committees, and who can hold a live operation to its controls without slowing it down.

About the Service

A leading South African financial institution is mobilising a managed service to run its contingent workforce process end to end. The service covers the full contractor lifecycle: requisitions, supplier routing, onboarding, contractor care, renewals, timesheets and deliverables, billing control and exits. It operates for a large population of contractors and consultants placed by a panel of more than 200 recruitment suppliers.

The service is delivered by a neutral managed service provider, on the client's systems and under the client's policies. The client keeps every decision that matters: policy, budget, rates, selection, payment and settlement. The provider administers, controls, reports and improves, and treats every supplier equally.

Key Responsibilities

Quality and control

• Own the control framework, the policy and obligation register and the role-and-access matrices.
• Run control testing and report results to the client's risk and audit forums.
• Confirm that no process goes live until its controls, ownership and evidence route are in place.

Independence and neutrality

• Own the conflict register, recusal log and declarations, and the quarterly conflict reviews.
• Investigate and report breaches, and drive containment and corrective action.
• Make sure specialist teams stay inside their approved boundaries.

Risk and audit

• Maintain the risk register and report material risks and dependencies.
• Support internal and external audit with complete evidence packs.
• Report control failures and repeated exceptions through governance.

Governance

• Chair the quality and risk forum and attend service governance forums.
• Work with the Compliance and Regulatory Lead, who carries out regulatory execution day to day.

What success looks like

• No process goes live without its controls, owner and evidence route.
• Control testing completed on schedule and reported to the client's risk and audit forums.
• Conflict register, recusal log and declarations current, with quarterly reviews held.
• Audits supported with complete evidence and no unresolved repeat findings.

Boundaries of the role

Independence is central to this service. This role does not:

• accept risk or grant a policy dispensation on the client's behalf: the client accepts risk.
• override, or act in place of, a client decision on policy, budget, rates, selection, payment, settlement or risk acceptance.
• favour or disadvantage any supplier or candidate.

You must declare any current or recent relationship with the client institution or with any supplier on its panel.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)), or an equivalent professional qualification in risk, audit or compliance.

Experience

• At least 10 years in finance, risk, audit or governance leadership, including in a regulated environment.
• Experience designing and testing controls, including segregation of duties.
• Experience reporting to boards, audit committees or regulators.

Skills and knowledge

• Financial governance and risk management.
• Internal control design and audit management.
• Independence and conflict management.
• Executive reporting.

Systems and tools

• Governance, risk and compliance tools, financial systems, and advanced Excel.

Advantageous

• Board or audit-committee experience.

Personal attributes

• Independent judgement and the confidence to raise uncomfortable findings.
• Precision and discipline with evidence.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders and auditors.
• Practical approach to controls that protects speed of service.

Working relationships

• The Compliance and Regulatory Lead.
• The client's risk, audit and compliance forums.
• The Strategic Commercial / Chief Solution Director, who sponsors independence controls.
• All operational and specialist team leads, for control ownership.

Please Note: As all iqbusiness roles require honesty in the handling of or access to cash, finances, financial systems, or confidential information; our recruitment process requires that the following background checks be completed: credit, criminal, ID, and qualification verification.

iqbusiness is committed to sustainable growth and transformation, we embrace diversity and employ previously disadvantaged individuals