VdE | Regulatory Affairs Senior

VdE | Regulatory Affairs Senior | ABSA

- abril 26, 2023

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Job Summary

Co-ordinating all regulatory compliance activities across a group of geographically and culturally diverse teams and across jurisdictions, to ensure consistent policies and standards are applied and to ensure Senior Stakeholders are presented with an appropriate and coherent view of regulatory compliance risks faced in Mocambique.

Job Description

Participate in the designing of the ABM Compliance and cluster risk management strategies and oversee the implementation thereof to support the BU in the management of the compliance risk profile.
Develop and maintain the compliance operating model to support the Compliance Department and cluster risk management strategies and oversee the implementation thereof.
Ensure that the operating model is consistent with global best practice and in line with Absa Bank Mozambique and Banco de Mocambique requirements through research, formal and informal internal and external interactions, whilst ensuring alignment with policies.
Be an active and accountable member of the ABM Compliance leadership team as well as the BU risk management leadership teams.
Actively engage across all business lines within the division in terms of compliance risk through various forums and individual meetings in order to ensure benchmarking and sharing best practices in support of ABM's control environment.
Be a key role player in the establishment of the group appetite for compliance and implement a framework of supporting controls.
Lead and work closely with direct management team, in proposing and ensuring the delivery of agreed compliance activities.
Be the central point of entry for the Business Unit (BU) in terms of regulatory compliance activities and related policies such as the Compliance Framework, policy framework and awareness, new product approval process, compliance reviews, reporting etc.
Ensure that product and service terms and conditions are drafted and reviewed prior submission for approval by the regulator.
Responsible for the management and reporting of the bank conduct risk and data privacy risk.
Responsible for the review, challenge and roll-out of compliance policies and standards by providing feedback during compliance forums.
Maintain a leading-edge compliance framework by working closely with HR, the Group a Compliance leadership team, Global Compliance counterparts and key stakeholders.
Attend relevant Compliance Forums & Conferences to enable the role holder to stay abreast of developments in the Regulatory Compliance world.