Risk Analyst - Cape Town Verfied Gold Badge

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 23-06-2017 12:42:36 PM
06-07-2017 2:08:04 PM
To analyse and monitor data to minimise operational risk and ensure governance in the achievement of business needs

Job Specification
• Data Analysis
o Analyse data sets to identify trends and gaps, escalate exceptions and recommend corrective measures to mitigate potential risks and ensure an appropriate risk profile for the relevant business units
• Modelling, process development and improvement
o Develop monitoring processes and models
o Improve on existing Risk frameworks to monitor delivery and conduct risk impact analysis against business strategy
• Monitoring and Reporting
o Develop and monitor risk related reports to ensure business units and management understand and take appropriate action on inherent risks and understand the impact of the decisions made to mitigate the risk.
• Managed work deliverables
o Ensure own deliverables are accurate, timely, in the correct format and tailored to meet stakeholder requirements
o Provide recommendations and monitor implementation and impact on business to achieve business results
• Managed stakeholder relationships
o Understand and meet client needs through client engagement and data collection based on business requirements
o Provide information and service that adds value to the business.
o Educate stakeholders on risk trends, systems, updates and legislative requirements to mitigate risk
• Delivered team culture contribution, innovation and change
o Participate in the Company’s Culture building initiatives (eg. Staff surveys etc.) contributing to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals
o Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
o Identify opportunities to improve or enhance processes by identifying and recommending improvements to tools, policies and procedures to add value to the Company’s
o Support implementation of new processes, policies and systems to add value to the Company’s
• Management Self
o Understand and embrace the Company’s Vision and Values by demonstrating the values through interaction with team and stakeholders to achieve goals and objectives
o Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management to improve personal capability and to stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
o Ensure all learning activities are completed, experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames to ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
o Share knowledge with team to ensure knowledge management, continuity, team success and that information is provided in the correct way to stakeholders


Qualifications
• Relevant Bachelors Degree, Preferred Post graduate Degree/ Informations systems/ Computer science/ Engineering

Experience
• 2 - 3 years experience in data analysis in a risk management and / or compliance management environment
• Analysing and interpreting data
• Interacting with various levels of management
• Communicating complex information orally
• Communicating complex written information
• Communicating standards to others
• Conducting benchmarking exercises to investigate improvement opportunities
• Conducting gap analysis
• Monitoring adherence and compliance
• Identifying business risks
• Identifying and interpreting risk trends

Key Competencies
• MS Office
• Numerical ability
• Business writing skills (creating reports, documents, presentations and content)
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Industry trends
• Business Acumen
• Data Tools - experience in working with data
• Financial services/banking experience
• Experience in working with data
• Report generation ability
• Some banking experience (if they have worked in a regulatory area we will consider them as well)
• Analytical
• Report writing skills
• Accounting knowledge