About the role

  • Seeking Risk Governance & Reporting Managers for Old Mutual to enhance risk governance and reporting practices. Influence enterprise frameworks, methodologies, and support decision-making processes in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

  • The purpose of this role is to contribute specialist expertise to the design, enablement, and ongoing improvement of enterprise risk governance and reporting practices across the Group.
  • The role supports the consistent, proportionate, and defensible application of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks, methodologies, policies, systems, and reporting.
  • Working in a Line 2 environment, the role provides exposure to enterprise‑wide risk governance architecture, senior stakeholders, and Board‑level governance processes.
  • Act as a trusted Line 2 governance partner, providing guidance, insight, constructive challenge, and defensible input into regulatory and governance engagements.
  • Enable and maintain the Group ERM framework and risk governance standards, ensuring alignment with the Group Governance Framework (GGF), regulatory expectations, and risk appetite.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required in Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law, or a related discipline.
  • 7+ years’ experience in enterprise risk management, risk governance, or second‑line risk oversight within a complex organisation (preferably financial services).
  • Demonstrated experience supporting or contributing to Group‑level risk governance frameworks, ERM methodology, and policy governance.
  • Proven experience in executive and/or Board‑level risk reporting, including aggregation, trend analysis, and decision‑useful insight.
  • Practical exposure to risk appetite frameworks, inherent and residual risk assessment, KRIs, and enterprise risk aggregation.
  • Experience working in a Line 2 environment, providing independent oversight, guidance, and constructive challenge.

Benefits

  • Professional risk or governance qualification advantageous (e.g. IRMSA, CA(SA), CFA, FRM, or equivalent).
  • Ongoing professional development in enterprise risk management or corporate governance preferred.

Job title

Risk Governance Officer

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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