Head of Risk
Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
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Job Summary
Job Title:
Head of Risk
Job Purpose:
Our client is seeking a Head of Risk to lead the organisations enterprise-wide risk management function. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that strategic operational financial regulatory clinical health and safety reputational and governance risks are identified assessed monitored and effectively managed. The role will provide strategic risk reporting assurance and recommendations to senior management and relevant governance structures while supporting effective risk oversight and decision-making. Key responsibilities will include developing and maintaining risk management frameworks managing the organisational risk register advising on risk mitigation strategies monitoring compliance with relevant requirements providing guidance on emerging and existing risks and embedding a strong risk-aware culture across all departments and facilities.
Responsibilities & Experience:
- Develop and maintain the organisations risk management framework policies and procedures.
- Lead the identification assessment and ongoing monitoring of organisational risks.
- Maintain and report on the corporate risk register.
- Report to the CEO on key risks emerging issues mitigation progress and required management actions.
- Provide formal risk reports insights and recommendations to management committees and the Audit and Risk Committee.
- Support compliance with applicable legislation governance standards and internal policies.
- Monitor operational risks across care facilities services finance HR IT property and procurement.
- Coordinate business continuity planning and incident response processes.
- Promote a strong culture of risk awareness accountability and effective risk management across the organisation.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors insurers regulators and relevant stakeholders.
- Support investigations control improvements and corrective action plans where required.
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience in risk management compliance internal audit governance assurance or a related field.
- 35 years experience in a senior management or leadership role.
- Proven experience reporting directly to a CEO Executive Committee Audit and Risk Committee or Board.
- Experience within healthcare aged care retirement services non-profit property insurance or another regulated service environment would be advantageous.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing risk management frameworks policies registers controls and reporting processes.
- Demonstrated experience managing operational regulatory financial reputational health and safety and business continuity risks.
- Experience working with internal and external auditors insurers regulators and senior stakeholders.
- Relevant bachelors degree in Risk Management Accounting Auditing Finance or a related field.
- Working knowledge of King IV governance principles enterprise risk management frameworks compliance management internal controls and business continuity planning.
Required Experience:
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