Our client, the South African Sugar Association (SASA) has a permanent vacancy within their Finance and Administration division for a Risk Management Officer based in Mount Edgecombe.

The South African Sugar Association (SASA) provides a range of specialist services that enhance the profitability, global competitiveness, and sustainability of the South African sugar industry. The Finance and Administration Division provides a range of financial services to SASA. The Risk Management Officer will assist with the implementation and maintenance of a risk management strategy and policy for the department, SASA and its subsidiaries.

The Risk Management Officer will report directly to the Head of the Risk Management function, a senior Manager within the Finance team and the key deliverables are as follows:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support, advise and assist Line management across SASA to embed risk management
• Contribute to and if necessary, challenge the alignment of the business level strategy and plan to the SASA strategy and agreed risk strategy and Enterprise Risk Management Framework
• Advise management on developing processes and controls to manage risks
• Monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of the risk management system and internal control environment
• Ensure that any breach of risk limit, incidents or losses are timeously identified and escalated
• Support management to complete annual and quarterly risk processes
• Provide expert, proactive advice and guidance on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and solutions to relevant stakeholders
• Participate and contribute to a development culture
• Perform the role of the Secretary of the Executive Risk Committee
• Advise on risks at relevant SASA Committees, Council and Boards of the subsidiary companies
• Positively influence the divisions risk culture

Minimum Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting /Internal Auditing/Risk/Process Engineering or Operations Management,
• 4 – 5 years’ relevant internal audit/ risk experience
• Stakeholder management experience at a middle and senior management level is mandatory
• Experience in completing a risk deep dive and ability to assess Internal Control environment is advantageous

Knowledge and Skills:

• Critical thinker
• Internal Controls
• Management Processes
• Operational Risks
• Risk Management
• Risk Management Information Systems
• Risk Reporting
• Risk Strategies

Salary:

Market related

Application Procedure:

Please feel welcome to provide comprehensive information when making your submission as this will assist the short-listing process. Please ensure that you provide an indication of your current total guaranteed remuneration package and any variable benefits.

SASA will contact applicants who best fit the requirements with a request that they provide a more detailed CV and furnish copies of their academic record. If you do not have a copy of your academic transcript, please could we suggest that you contact your university to obtain this.

SASA follows a comprehensive recruitment process that includes the formal assessment of cognitive abilities and preferred behavioral styles.

SASA’s Recruitment Policy:

SASA supports the provisions of the EE Act and BBBEE Act. In recognizing the high level of unemployment in our country, our priority is the provision of employment opportunities to South African nationals and more specifically our EE targets (including people with disabilities) based on alignment to national and provincial EAP’s. We will only consider foreign nationals in the event that a comprehensive recruitment process has failed.