IntroductionTo ensure that the enterprise operates within its set risk appetite and business resilience obligations in order to avert adverse impact and maximise opportunities.Duties & ResponsibilitiesResults Delivery

• Provide detail, insight and research of the relevant JSE environment and aligning with best practice for input into enterprise-wide risk management strategy and approach.
• Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional project budgets.
• Provide insight in establishing (planning) frameworks and methodologies and setting and executing JSE risk and compliance methodology through facilitation with business units
• Provide critical and tactical thinking and contributions to crafting of departmental business plan based on professional knowledge and experience, to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of departmental strategy.
• Participate in methodology design for strategic risk management by identifying and overseeing key strategic and compliance areas.
• Participate in defining and delivering assurance/oversight applying knowledge and insight.
• Ensure systems, products or projects delivered contributes to improve client/JSE service by providing input on budgets, resources required, and process based on the understanding of costs, business objectives and relationship with external suppliers and stakeholders.
• Provide input into the formalisation for the divisional budget.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Interact with risk and business continuity champions and key operational staff (e.g., project managers, heads of business units) to solicit information and advice on appropriate response and/or queries as may be necessary.
• Engage with risk and business continuity champions and staff in determining JSE rating against risk appetite, applicable best practice and compliance areas to ensure understanding of their needs and requirements.

Process Management

• Interact with and provide insight for management committees to ensure that they are aware of their risk and business resilience profile and manage it accordingly.
• Provide input into the risk and business resilience structures (e.g. risk working group and Exco risk committee) by compiling and presenting the reports and recommending appropriate action Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and processes by identifying and monitoring key risk indicators and managing JSE risk register to ensure appropriate risk response
• Implement risk-based compliance approach by identifying and monitoring key compliance areas managing JSE compliance universe to ensure appropriate response.
• Track and report incidents and loss events, ensuring that root causes are identified and managed.
• Compile appropriate reports for different audiences at required frequencies and on ad-hoc basis
• Provide support, education, and training to staff in order to build a risk and business resilience culture Provide risk oversight and assurance to the following areas and any other that may be identified: IT Governance, Information Security, Projects, Compliance and Business Operations
• Manage the risk and business resilience tool set (i.e., software and spreadsheets) by reviewing and updating them from time to time to ensure that they are fit for purpose and up to date Support the risk and business continuity champions to understand and better perform their roles.
• Perform underlying assurance work in identified focus areas to support both risk reporting and/or assurance opinions.
• Manage own delivery against operational plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required. Along with the CRO and rest of team, develop and contribute to the continuous improvement in level of maturity of the risk environment of JSE and establish risk indicators to be refined over time

Transformation and Innovation Contribution

• Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results

Desired Experience & Qualification
Minimum Qualification

• Degree/Diploma in Business Management, Accounting, Risk, Business Continuity, Compliance or Economics/Information Systems

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years specialised business continuity management, risk management
• Experience in financial services/capital markets or investment/banking would be beneficial.

Knowledge and Skills required

• Professions Knowledge
• Research methodology - Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
• JSE policies and procedures - Business principles (Risk management processes and frameworks)
• Business Continuity principles and methodologies (BCPs, BIAs, etc)
• JSE vision and strategy - Decision-making process
• Stakeholder management (Risk measurement and assessment approaches)
• Data analysis
• Industry trends (Risk mitigation techniques)
• International Standards for Professional Practice
• Basic understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscape
• Basic compliance techniques and approaches
• Assurance/Audit core concepts
• Basic Audit practices and techniques
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders (communicating complex information - written and orally)
• Networking and building relationships.
• Resolving a difficult conflict
• Providing professional advice/opinion
• Collecting and interpreting information
• Integrating different sources of information - Identifying- and interpreting- risk trends
• Assessing and measuring risk