Senior Risk Officer - Centurion
FACT · Centurion, Gauteng
Overview
FACT is seeking a Senior Risk Officer to join their team in Centurion. This permanent role involves facilitating the risk management process across the organisation, including risk identification, analysis, and maintaining the risk register. If you have a strong background in risk management and want to contribute to a company's long term efficiency and governance, this could be a great fit.
About the role
As a Senior Risk Officer at FACT, you will play a key role in facilitating the risk management process across the organisation. You will assist in identifying and analysing risks, maintaining the risk register, and developing enterprise wide risk and treasury risk reduction programs. Your work will help ensure the company operates within best practice, corporate governance, and cost management principles.
You will be involved in risk governance, risk identification, risk management, risk compliance, reporting, business continuity management, fraud risk management, treasury risk management, and risk finance. This is a permanent, full time position based in Centurion.
Requirements
- B Degree in Economics, Commerce, or equivalent
- Minimum 8 years of risk management experience
- Water sector and SOE exposure is desirable
- Treasury and project risk management experience will be advantageous
- Knowledge of risk management software will be advantageous
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and annual review of risk management policies and frameworks, including risk management plan, risk appetite and tolerance framework, Business Continuity Management Programme, and Fraud policy.
- Continuously identify enterprise wide risk exposures and assess risk ratings against control adequacy.
- Ensure all projects' risk exposure is identified, quantified, documented, and communicated.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend risk management and mitigation steps.
- Facilitate divisional integration where risk exposures and mitigation responsibility overlap between divisions.
- Oversee risk management reporting, including the use of information technology.
- Evaluate risk assessments performed by Risk Owners within Divisions to ensure accurate representation of the risk profile.
- Identify and analyse the correlation between risk drivers and control failures.
- Develop and maintain enterprise wide risk profile, monitor key risk indicators, and report against risk appetite and tolerance thresholds.
- Test compliance against Risk Policy and challenge mitigation or control measures applied by Divisions or Departments where necessary.
- Ensure risk mitigation actions are timeously implemented and non conformances are reported to the Risk Manager and Chief Risk Officer.
- Develop a risk awareness culture at the Company.
- Contribute to the Combined Assurance Initiative to enhance the internal control environment.
- Develop, maintain, and regularly update Divisional and Departmental risk registers.
- Prepare Risk Assessment Reports for Divisions and provide risk dashboards to the Risk Manager and Chief Risk Officer.
- Facilitate Business Impact Assessments for Business Units and ensure BCP is updated and tested regularly.
- Conduct Fraud Risk Assessments and monitor implementation against the fraud prevention plan.
- Proactively monitor and report on treasury risks including liquidity, interest rate, currency, credit counterparty, and operational risks.
- Ensure risk financing is complete and cost efficiently structured, and handle claims administration.
- Build strong working relationships with internal clients and participate in risk management workshops.
- Ensure related policies and procedures are aligned to best practice.
Job details
- Organisation
- FACT
- Location
- Centurion, Gauteng
- Job type
- Full time
- Experience level
- Senior (8+ years)
- Education
- Bachelor
- Category
- Accounting & Finance
- Application Method
- Apply manually
Success Guide
When applying for this Senior Risk Officer role at FACT, make sure your CV clearly highlights your 8+ years of risk management experience and your B Degree in Economics or Commerce. Emphasise any experience you have in the water sector, state owned enterprises, treasury risk, or project risk management, as these are desirable. Also mention any familiarity with risk management software. Tailor your application to show how you have helped organisations identify and mitigate risks, and how you have contributed to risk governance and compliance. Good luck!
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