The role exists to support the delivery of the ERM Charter.
The role of the ERM function is to protect shareholder value by ensuring that all risks are managed within risk appetite.
The ERM function sets the policies and standards within which business is meant to operate and provides specialist expertise to the business to enable the embedding of risk management across the group.
This role will be based in either the Santam Bellville or Sandton offices.
What will make you successful in this role?
- Lead the team in driving the embedding of a risk management process to identify, mitigate, monitor, report and escalate key strategic and operational risks within the parameters of the Board’s risk appetite.
- Support the Head of ERM in monitoring the Group’s risk profile to ensure that key risks are managed, relevant action taken, and adequate controls have been implemented by management.
- Overall coordination and aggregation of all key risks within the Santam Group for Risk Committee reporting purposes to provide a summary and overview of Santam’s key risks.
- Track the implementation of the ERM plan. Escalate issues (timing, incorrect focus) with the Head of ERM.
- Obtain a good understanding of the external and internal business environment, including strategic and operational goals in order to evaluate and identify any new and emerging risks.
- Drive the analysis of operational events occurring throughout the Group and link to the overall risk profile per SBU and for Group.
- Validation of risk data in CURA to ensure risks and incidents are captured accurately. Escalation of issues to Head of ERM to drive with the ERM Managers accountable for relationships.
- Scanning the external environment for threats and opportunities that could affect the Santam group risk profile.
- Drive and coordinate regulatory submissions.
- End-to-end management of all governance documents (policies, charters, and frameworks). Including annual review and preparation for approval in the November board cycle.
Qualification and Experience
- Business-related degree
- 10-15 years’ experience (role requires management skills).
Skills
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Delivery/results orientated
- Highly self-motivated individual
- Proactive
- Fast learner
- Independent thinker
Knowledge
- Analytics
- Reporting
- Internal Control
- Performing under pressure
- Self-confidence and assertiveness to work independently in achieving desired results
- Negotiating and influencing
- Applying expertise and technology
- Analysing and interpreting
- Learning and researching
- Oral and written communication
- Problem solving
- Maintain confidentiality
- Good judgement
- Strategic thinking
- Data Collection
Core Competencies
Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically
Customer focus - Contributing strategically
Drives results - Contributing strategically
Collaborates - Contributing strategically
Being resilient - Contributing strategically
About The Company
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.
At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.
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