Governance, Risk & Controls Specialist

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available in a dynamic and fast-paced environment at the heart of Treasury, Financial Markets, and Group Credit Investments, where governance and risk management play a critical role in enabling strategic decision-making and protecting business value.
As a Governance, Risk & Control Analyst, you will partner across the business to support and strengthen key governance, risk, and control activities while helping to shape a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. This role offers the opportunity to gain broad exposure to treasury, investment, and financial risk environments, while contributing to the enhancement and embedding of governance frameworks, risk practices, and control processes across TFM and GCI.

Responsibilities

​Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Supporting the execution of core governance activities across the business, ensuring governance requirements are coordinated, implemented, and embedded consistently across TFM and GCI

• Supporting monitoring of Regulation 28, internal, and Group limits through data collation, compliance tracking, and reporting against regulatory, mandate, and internal requirements

• Assisting in the establishment, testing, and maintenance of automated and manual monitoring processes to support effective limit and compliance monitoring

• Supporting business resilience management through coordination of scenario testing, maintenance of annual testing plans, and tracking of compliance and testing outcomes

Control Environment & Process Improvement

• Partnering with teams across TFM and GCI to support the implementation and maintenance of an efficient and effective control environment

• Reviewing end-to-end processes to identify process risks, assess control requirements, and support ongoing control environment improvement

• Assisting in the testing of control effectiveness, including the identification, documentation, and tracking of control gaps, weaknesses, and remediation actions through to closure

• Contributing to the enhancement and standardisation of operational KRIs across execution teams, including support for reporting to senior management

• Supporting continuous improvement in governance, risk, and control processes through structured analysis and identification of process and control enhancements

 

Legal Support

• Drive the establishment and continuous enhancement of a centralized legal agreements repository, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and ease of access to support business and governance needs

• Proactively manage and optimize the end-to-end lifecycle of legal agreements, including forward visibility of upcoming renewals, expiries, and review milestones to mitigate risk and avoid lapses.

• Strengthen governance and compliance by partnering with Group Legal and key stakeholders to ensure legal documentation is consistently up to date, aligned to evolving regulatory requirements, and effectively tracked through robust reporting and monitoring mechanisms

Key Outputs:

• Accurate and timely coordination of governance, risk, compliance, and control activities across TFM and GCI

• Well-maintained governance calendars, trackers, repositories, and supporting documentation enabling consistent governance execution

• High-quality governance, risk, and compliance reporting delivered to relevant stakeholders and governance forums within required timelines

• Monitoring outputs for Regulation 28, internal, and Group limits, including accurate tracking of compliance and escalation of breaches or exceptions

• Documented and tracked governance, risk, and control issues, including clear remediation actions and evidence of resolution through to closure

• Evidence of control effectiveness support, including outputs from control testing activities and structured analysis of control gaps and weaknesses

• Enhanced operational KRI reporting across execution teams, supporting improved visibility of key risks and trends for senior management

• Support for business resilience testing activities, including coordinated scenario testing execution, tracking of annual testing plans, and documented outcomes

• Maintained and accurate repository of legal agreements, including complete lifecycle tracking from initiation through to renewal and execution stages

• Improved governance process consistency and efficiency through structured support to control, compliance, and process enhancement initiative

Skills & Requirements:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Finance, or a related field, with a commitment to continuous professional development and enhancing market-relevant skills through further formal studies where required

Experience

• 2–5 years’ experience in governance, operations, or business analysis within a financial services environment

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information to a variety of audiences

• Highly flexible, collaborative and self-motivated

• Planning /multi-tasking given business needs

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Skills

Action Planning, Analytics Software, Budget Management, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Database Reporting, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Interpretations, Evaluating Information, Management Reporting, Numerical Aptitude, Report Review

Competencies

Business InsightCommunicates EffectivelyCourageEnsures AccountabilityFinancial AcumenInstills TrustManages ComplexityOptimizes Work Processes

Education

Bachelors Degree (B): Commerce (Required), Bachelors Degree (B): Finance (Required)

Closing Date

14 August 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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