Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance

SUMMARY:

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance role is to primarily lead the management of internal and external risks for RTT and its clients. Additionally, the role incumbent is expected to design and implement rigorous and robust compliance and governance programmes to support business operatio...

POSITION INFO:

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance role is to primarily lead the management of internal and external risks for RTT and its clients. Additionally, the role incumbent is expected to design and implement rigorous and robust compliance and governance programmes to support business operations, legal and regulatory requirements.  The role is effectively responsible to minimize legal and regulatory risks, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain the organization's integrity and adherence to quality and compliance standards across all divisions and in partnership with the business leaders and clients. 

Duties Responsibilities: 

Development and implementation of functional strategic plan:

• Stay up to date with relevant industry regulations, laws, and standards applicable to the logistics sector.
• Monitor and analyse market trends, industry developments, client requirements, regulatory changes, criminal trends, and statistics etc, and identify any emerging risks and/or opportunities.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive functional plan as well as relevant policies, procedures, systems, and processes to support the implementation and effectiveness of the strategy and plan.
• Develop key performance indicators to support the performance of the function and to share with key stakeholders with an invested interest in the performance of the function.
• Monitor the function’s performance against agreed performance indicators and trends in the business and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure that the functional budget is prepared in alignment with the plan and actively managed to prevent variance and achieve objectives.

Proactive and responsive risk management:

• Reactive Risk Management
• Ensure that risk reaction is highly targeted, aggressive in response and ensures that freight is protected and recovered on time, every time.
• Ensure that the team responds appropriately to incidents and that these are managed according to procedure legally, and that the process if managed correctly to minimize financial reputational losses.
• Oversee the management of the control room and that the team has clear SOPs that support RTT in the mitigation and prevention of risk as well as to respond appropriately to threats.
• Review investigation outcomes and implement actions to prevent future incidents and to minimize damages and losses.
• Actively get involved in risk responses where required.
• Directly engage with clients and act as the representative of RTT in managing the risk response.

Proactive Risk Management

• Manage the security of employees, premises, fleet, current assets and client consignments nationally to ensure that any security risks are prevented including but not limited to:
• Facility safety and security management across business divisions nationally
• Armed escort management
• Control room management
• Internal and external incident prevention and management (e.g. pilferage, hijackings, robberies, accidents)
• Build partnerships with law enforcement officers, judicial authorities, investigators, and security and risk response suppliers that support the prevention, mitigation, and management of incidents.
• Monitor the effectiveness of risk identification and assessment processes by tracking the number of risks identified, assessed, and mitigated.
• Evaluate the financial impact of risk mitigation strategies. This includes measuring cost savings, avoided losses, and improved financial performance.

Minimum:

• 8 -10 years' experience in Risk Management, (Essential)
• 5 years' experience in a management role (Essential)
• Previous experience in risk management role with successful track record, preferably in logistics or a related industry.
• Background in Security,
• Forensic Auditing or Police service (Desirable)
• PSIRA accreditation or similar risk, safety and security accreditation (Essential)
• Bachelor's degree in business, logistics, supply chain management, or a related field (Desirable)

 

Required Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the logistics industry
• In-depth knowledge and expertise in relevant laws and regulatory frameworks impacting the logistics industry and relevant client sectors.
• Risk and compliance management
• Risk mitigation prevention strategies and methodologies
• Investigation management
• Law enforcement and court processes and procedures
• Firearm competency
• Firearm business competency
• Auditing processes
• Functional Planning
• Policy and procedure development
• Experience in using appropriate tools and technologies (e.g. CURA software)
• Financial management principles and practices
• Risk management principles and practices
• Health and safety principles and practices

 

Required Skills:

• Ability to communicate with all levels.
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Keen commercial and business acumen
• People management skills that suit the culture of the environment
• Negotiation skills
• Problem-solving skills including root cause analysis
• Client engagement skills
• Time management i.e. deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Presentation skills
• Intuitive
• Strong networking specifically executed with law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, security industry etc.
• Analysis skills
• Data processing skills
• Decision making skills
• Technologically Savvy

Personality Attributes: 

• Ability to work under pressure.
• Dynamic
• Ability to be a team player but work independently.
• Action orientated.
• Detail consciousness
• People Leadership
• Ability to make quick effective decisions.
• Organising and planning skills
• Solution/ delivery focused.
• High level of self-motivation, energy and drive
• Negotiation skills