Head, Non-Financial Risk, Organisational Resilience

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To lead the Group's Systemic Organisational Resilience Risk Cluster, providing integrated second-line oversight of key resilience risk domains. This role identifies, integrates, and governs systemic vulnerabilities across the operational ecosystem (technology, cyber, third-party, and operational resilience). By aggregating cross-risk insights, it ensures cohesive, mature capabilities, enabling effective management of systemic disruption and fostering a resilient operational architecture.

• Lead the Organisational Resilience Risk Cluster, comprising Technology Risk, Cyber / Information Security Risk, Third-Party Risk, and Operational / Business Resilience Risk to ensure a holistic and integrated approach to managing resilience-critical risks.
• Lead and develop a team of risk professionals, including Risk Type Heads, fostering collaboration across resilience-critical risk disciplines to build a high-performing and integrated risk function.
• Provide cross-risk integration, governance, aggregated resilience risk insight, systemic vulnerability identification, and maturity challenge across these domains, complementing the technical accountability of respective Risk Type Heads to achieve a cohesive and continuously improving resilience posture.

• Post Graduate Degree in Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Risk Management
• Preferred: Masters Degree in Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Risk Management

Experience Required

Operational Risk Management

• 10+ years of experience in financial services industry, with an extensive understanding of Financial Services products and services, underlying system operations, and practices. Demonstrated executive presence, with the ability to engage and communicate at the executive level, establish, and maintain collaborative partnerships and provide thought leadership to strategic decisions. Regulatory environment savvy, a proven track record in large scale and high-level leadership.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Challenging Ideas
• Convincing People
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Exploring Possibilities
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Seizing Opportunities
• Upholding Standards
• Valuing Individuals

Technical Competencies:

• Evaluating Risk Management Effectiveness
• Evaluation of Internal Controls
• Financial Acumen
• Managerial Budgeting
• Operational Planning
• Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
• Policy Development
• Promote Good Governance, Risk & Control
• Quality Management
• Quality Orientation
• Risk Awareness
• Risk Identification
• Risk Management
• Risk Measurement
• Risk Reporting
• Risk Response Strategy
• Risk/ Reward Thinking
• Root Cause Analysis
• Strategy Definition