Senior Compliance Officer: CIB Global Markets

at  Absa Bank Limited

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
This role is essential in safeguarding our Absa Corporate and Investment Banking business from regulatory and reputational risks.
Job Description
1. People Management & Department Management:
Strong Track record of leading a compliance team (preferred), supporting compliance management by developing and executing the Markets Compliance strategy, contributing to recruitment and performance management, identifying and resolving departmental issues, enhancing the compliance methodology, providing input into the department’s risk and control assessment (RCA), and sharing knowledge across the department.
2. Global Markets Advisory:
Driving the right behavior in the Global Markets business by setting standards, providing advice, training, verification, escalation, reporting, and engagement. Communicating the role and objectives of Compliance clearly, maintaining regular engagement with stakeholders, providing accurate and timely compliance advice, ensuring effective execution of training, implementing policies, managing new regulatory requirements, and keeping the business informed of regulatory notifications. In addition a strong knowledge of global markets products is a pre- requisite across both exchange traded and OTC cash and derivative products.
3. Stakeholder Management:
Acting as the point of entry for interactions with regulators, particularly the FSCA, JSE and PA, positioning and communicating compliance policies and initiatives, driving a stakeholder management plan for all compliance matters, and liaising with senior executive stakeholders.
4. Risk Management:
Being the accountable regulatory risk owner given the highly regulated nature of global markets, performing ongoing business monitoring together with other assurance providers, maintaining detailed compliance risk management plans of all high and medium risk legislation, assessing regulatory risk MI, reviewing and providing input on Compliance Risk Review coverage, and addressing deficiencies.
5. Governance:
Serving on appropriate risk and governance forums, and reporting to relevant forums with overall conclusions on regulatory risk.
6. Education:
JSE Registered Persons Exams/JSE Compliance Officer exams
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertise

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