Principal Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer
Grade: P3
Windhoek
Minimum Experience: 5+ Years with practical experience in IT Risks Management, risk management, business continuity, Internal Auditing, and compliance.
Minimum Qualification: Honours in Risk Management or Business Management, IT or Financial or Management Accounting, Economics related field. A master’s degree in the said fields would be advantageous. • Professional: Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information System Auditor, Chartered Accountant, Certified Risk Management, Certificate BCM or Compliance or any professional recognition in Risk Management would be advantage. Risk intelligence would advantage
Closing Date: 25 June 2024
Knowledge & Skills
- Analytical thinking skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Written, verbal communication skills including presentation skills
- Training and facilitation skills
- Building relationships / networking
- Project management skills
- Basic research skills
- Leadership
Duties & Responsibilities
The principal accountabilities of this position are to:
- Every three years, review to ensure adequate Governance, Compliance risk management and BCM policies and procedures in line with applicable international standards and good governance standards and ensuring that Risk staff and other relevant Bank employees comply with such policies and procedures.
- On an annual basis or when the need arises, facilitate the timely identification and assessment of significant risks that can impair the operations and the achievement of the strategic objectives of the Bank. This is done for the Risk Management Committee and Audit committee. Perform emerging risks identification on a continuous basis.
- Responsible for facilitation all risk management strategies and operations, as well as supervising the organization's risk mitigation implementation.
- On a quarterly basis, review, monitor and draft a report on risk management activities and significant risk and compliance exposures including maintaining up-to date risk logs and update the barnowl system to track that risk mitigating strategies are adequate and are timely implemented.
- Receive incident reports from the various departments when incidents occur. Review the incident report for completeness and facilitate root cause analysis. Obtain remedial actions, track its implementation and update the centralised database. Report on a quarterly basis to the RMC and AC.
- Facilitate the Bank-wide business continuity management programme, its projects and activities on a half yearly basis for all the business departments. Facilitate the business continuity plans annual review to ensure that the information is relevant for all the business departments.
- Every two years or when a need arise, facilitate training and awareness to relevant staff on Governance, Compliance and risk matters to ensure that the Bank risk management practises is applied in the Bank.
- Performs any reasonable and lawful duties and responsibilities as and when assigned.