Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Maintain a culture within the bank that emphasizes and demonstrates the importance of internal control to all staff. • Review daily and suggest improvements to controls in processes and procedures. • Ensure effective compliance with agreed limits of authority and levels of access to systems and information in daily transactions processing. • Work in partnership with all stakeholders to ensure that potential risks and controls are adequately identified and measured appropriately via the KRI, KCI & RCSA processes. • Improve functionality of the control processes by playing a full end-to-end role (identification, testing, reporting and implementation of initiatives). • Influencing process change across coverage area to maintain risk levels whilst seeking process efficiencies. • Ensure that all routine controls relating to new business and processes are applied effectively, with particular emphasis on routine compliance. • Review of past audit and regulatory reports to identify exceptions raised and monitor remedial action/ compliance and ensure adequate controls against repeat findings. • Liaise with Recons department for routine reports and follow up with responsible parties on outstanding aging items. • Keep track of sensitive processes to ensure compliance with regulatory directives across area of coverage

QualificationsB.Sc/B.Tech in any related fieldMinimum of 2 years experience as an Internal Control Officer

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies

Team WorkingProactive Problem Identification and Solving

Technical Competencies

Use of technology and innovation in controlsKnowledge of regulatory requirements and control processes