Governance and Risk Specialist - Cape Town

at  Sanlam

About Sanlam Corporate:
Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success, embracing diversity and committed to transformation. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and an intolerance for mediocrity. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• A Degree, Advanced Diploma or good progress towards such qualification with preference given to legal and/or compliance related studies
• 3-5 years’ experience in Group Risk or Employee Benefits industry experience essential
• Certificates in Risk Management and/or Compliance Management would be advantageous
• Regulatory Exam certificate preferable

• Embedding of legal, risk & compliance frameworks and processes across the business
• Support with stakeholder risk reporting, due diligence requests, document drafting and design
• Compilation and management of risk registers, including monitoring & tracking
• Management of databases and data drives
• Provide occasional, relief support on governance team email boxes
• Support the growing of a risk and compliance culture across the business
• Initiate and drive business transformation projects to reduce the reporting and compliance burden through automation and process simplification