Strategic Risk & Control Advisory Specialist

Neptune; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hollard in South Africa seeks a Specialist: Risk and Control Advisory to report to the Senior Audit Manager within Group Internal Audit. The role provides specialised risk and control advisory across Hollard and its subsidiaries, translating processes and transformation initiatives into practical control frameworks across maturity levels.

You will strengthen assurance, collaborate with audit teams on scope and test design, and support data-driven audit approaches with analytics and AI-enabled

Responsibilities

• Analyse business processes, systems, and workflows to identify key risks and control requirements.
• Translate complex business activities into clear, structured risk and control frameworks.
• Partner with audit teams on planning, execution, risk assessment, and control evaluation.
• Review risk and control assessments to improve quality and consistency of audit outputs.
• Provide practical risk and control guidance to subsidiaries across different operating environments.
• Align control frameworks across entities and identify common risk themes and gaps.
• Contribute to advisory engagements supporting transformation or business change.
• Collaborate with analytics and AI-focused resources to support data-driven audit approaches.
• Articulate risks and controls for testing and interpret analytics in context of business risks.
• Embed operational risk, conduct risk, customer fairness, regulatory requirements, and governance standards into activities.
• Exposure to transformation programmes or significant change initiatives will be advantageous.
• Exposure to data analytics or tech-enabled audit environments will be advantageous.
• Translate emerging business practices into practical insights for stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement in risk and control templates, standards, methodologies, and guidance.

Job description

Hollard in South Africa seeks a Specialist: Risk and Control Advisory to report to the Senior Audit Manager within Group Internal Audit. The role provides specialised risk and control advisory across Hollard and its subsidiaries, translating processes and transformation initiatives into practical control frameworks across maturity levels.

You will strengthen assurance, collaborate with audit teams on scope and test design, and support data-driven audit approaches with analytics and AI-enabled