Our vision is to be the preferred partner to Corporate and Public Sector by providing an awesome client experience and comprehensive solutions that enable the financial resilience and prosperity of those entities and their employees. We tap into over 100 years of expertise to provide cost-effective Employee Benefits and Healthcare Solutions that enable financial confidence for our members. We enable our clients to make better retirement and risk decisions today through determined and passionate thought leadership and best-in-class people, innovative products and proven processes all designed to help people live a better life tomorrow.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives every individual the opportunity to achieve success, embracing diversity and committed to transformation. We do this through living our values of having the courage to be bold, care, collaboration and an intolerance for mediocrity. Were all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Division
One of the largest businesses within the Sanlam Group, Sanlam Corporate (SC) specialises in the provision of risk, investment and administration services to institutions and retirement funds. Focused on meeting the unique needs of its diverse clients, SC assists companies in creating and delivering customised employee benefits solutions, including the collection of premiums and communication to fund members.
The Overall Purpose Of The Role
To support the functional governance role with the management of operational risk, legal insight & compliance across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Embedding of legal, risk & compliance frameworks and processes across the business
- Support with stakeholder risk reporting, due diligence requests, document drafting and design
- Compilation and management of risk registers, including monitoring & tracking
- Management of databases and data drives
- Provide occasional, relief support on governance team email boxes
- Support the growing of a risk and compliance culture across the business
- Initiate and drive business transformation projects to reduce the reporting and compliance burden through automation and process simplification
- A Degree, Advanced Diploma or good progress towards such qualification with preference given to legal and/or compliance related studies
- 3-5 years experience in Group Risk or Employee Benefits industry experience essential
- Certificates in Risk Management and/or Compliance Management would be advantageous
- Regulatory Exam certificate preferable
- Flexible and Adaptable Ability to adjust to evolving regulatory environment and changing requirements
- Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
- Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
- Manages Complexity - Demonstrated ability and proven record to make complex decisions.
- Ensures Accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritising work to meet commitments aligned to organisational goals
- Cultivates Innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
- Client Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Drives Results - Consistently achieving results and meets deadlines, even under tough circumstances.
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Resilience - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our Commitment To Transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
