Senior Risk and Compliance Officer

Digital Planet; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. seeks a Risk and Compliance Leader to assess and prioritize enterprise risk, ensuring adherence to policies and regulatory requirements. You will partner with business units to embed robust governance, risk, and compliance programs across the organization.

Responsibilities include advising management, updating stakeholders on regulatory changes, and leading SLA and contract risk reviews within a fast-paced tech environment.

Qualifications

• Senior management experience in technology products/services including risk management, compliance or governance.
• Strong ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable policies.
• Proven experience influencing cross-functional teams and driving risk reduction.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business units to review and achieve full compliance.
• Audit existing SLA agreements and ensure awareness and adherence to requirements.
• Monitor changes in laws and regulations and translate effects for the business.
• Provide expert legal advice and support to management and teams.
• Develop and implement governance, risk and compliance frameworks.

Job description

Our Mission: Enriching every South African's life with access to technology.

What we do: Through our incredible partnerships, we create new business opportunities for some of the world's leading technology brands.

How we make it happen: From technology merchandising, to warehousing, logistics, e-commerce and call centre services, we not only create new business channels for you, but we manage it from end to end.

Job Description

Your Mission: To be our Risk and Compliance Guru, assessing the overall business risk profile and suggesting priorities. Making sure we comply with our own policies and processes, and ultimately achieving 100% risk compliance for all of our business units.

Who you are:

• Accountable: Reporting into the business at the highest level you take responsibility for your own successes and failures.
• Influencer: Developing win-win partnerships, you educate our teams and sell-in change.
• Excellent Communicator: A veteran presenter you’re skilled at distilling complexity down into a clear plan.
• Gravitas: You instil confidence with careful deliberation and clearly substantiated advice.
• Analytical: You’re able to swiftly assess the overall business risk profile and how to prioritise risk reducing activities.
• Proactive: Always monitoring how new legislation will affect our businesses.
• Tenacious negotiator: Always getting the best result for the business.
• Financially astute: Knowing how to apply the numbers to assess risks vs rewards.
• Project management: You’re expert at inception, implementation and activation of new process and compliance.
• Compliance watchdog: You’ll hold our teams accountable.
• Leader: You’re integral to the direction of the business.
• Service focussed: You’re a dedicated service provider to our teams.
• Committed to learning and growing: Your own, the team and the business
• Attention to detail: You get it right the first time.
• Demonstrating honesty and integrity: Upholding the ethics of our business above all else.
• Caring: You care a great deal about the people around you and the work you do.
• Agile: You can keep up with the fast pace of our business.
• Process driven: Doing things the right way is what gets you out of bed in the morning.
• Still human: You don’t take yourself too seriously.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with our business units to review and achieve full compliance.
• Audit existing SLA agreements and ensure the business is aware and on top of their requirements.
• Monitor any changes in laws, regulations, initiatives and relevant industry practices and translate their effects into the business.
• Provide legal advice and support to the various business units, management and their teams.
• Research and share new legislation with the relevant teams in a clearly understandable format.
• Provide expert knowledge on any relevant legislative amendments and industry best practice.
• Assess the overall company strategy and apply it to our risk portfolio to determine gaps.
• Analyse, report and provide input into decisions regarding risk mitigation strategies within the risk portfolio.
• Manage compliance as our strategy adjusts and the business develops.
• Take responsibility for all contract and SLA negotiations.
• Take responsibility for facilitating, embedding, monitoring and reporting on the business’s Governance, Risk and Compliance framework.
• Audit compliance and process throughout the business and implement performance measures.
• Report in to Manco and Exco quarterly on business wide compliance.
• Make sure we comply with legislative and audit requirements for governance.
• Identify areas of risk and implement policies and procedures that close the gaps.
• Workwith the business units to develop and implement risk reducing projects and initiatives.
• Share proactive advice and solutions with the business units.
• Liaise with our lawyers and auditors.
• Develop materials and documentation including minimum standards, templates, guidelines, FAQ’s and processes.
• Nurture and develop an expert team.
• Proactively develop your own skills and expertise.

Qualifications

• LLB or BCom Law Honours Degree essential
• 7 to 8 years experience at a senior management level within the technology products and services environment in: Risk management, Compliance, Legal or Governance.
• Registered with The Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA)
• Registered with The Compliance Institute Southern Africa (CISA)
• Registered with The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)
• Understanding of Solvency II, or Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM)
• Clear understanding of the POPI Act and experience with implementation and rollout.