It And Compliance Specialist - Sandton
Salary Negotiable
Sandton, Gauteng
Sandton,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
06-08-2014 4:01:58 PM
03-09-2014 4:01:58 PM
Synopsis:Leading Sandton based financial services provider is looking to appoint a suitably skilled and experienced individual to assume responsibility for IT risk and compliance management process.
Minimum Requirements:- Matric
- IT Degree
- CRISC / CISA / CGEIT / CISM
- Risk Management Certification
- CoBIT
- ITIL
- Minimum 3 to 5 years experience in similar role
- Knowledge of data privacy / PoPI
- IT operational experience an advantage
- Previous experience in Financial Service industry an advantage
Job Description:Suitably skilled and experienced individual to assume responsibility for IT risk and compliance management processes, including:
- Implementing Risk Management programme in line with EWRM framework
- Conducting periodic risk assessments
- Capture and update risk registers on CURA
- Ensuring risk registers are accurately and completely updated, especially in time for RISCO and audit committee
- Ensuring risk mitigation strategies are employed in all areas of responsibility
- Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of processes, procedures and operations to identify and manage IT risks
- Monitoring and tracking risk mitigation actions until resolution and within agreed timelines
- Reporting on status of IT risks
- Overseeing project risks
- Review and analysis of project risk registers
- Ensuring risk ownership is assigned
- Ensuring risk response plans assigned to identified risks
- Reporting on project risks
- Assisting with building adequate controls to reduce risk exposure in various environments
- Providing control guidelines
- Assisting with control self assessments
- Promoting a culture of risk awareness
- Managing compliance using international standards, frameworks and best practices for benchmarking
- Ensuring that applicable legislation is adhered to
- Identifying and monitoring non-compliance and escalating where appropriate
- Providing guidance on compliance matters
- Driving Compliance Health Checks on IT environment
- Assisting in awareness activities iro compliance and compliance requirements
- Working with auditors and functional area owners to satisfy internal and external audit requirements
- Facilitating the resolution of audit / compliance exceptions
- Cultivating good working relationships with internal and external auditors to engender trust and confidence
- Providing input to related policies
- Adhoc Governance, Risk and Compliance tasks
- Applicable reporting as and when required