Business Manager - Country Risk

Purpose of job:

Provide wide range of administrative and operational support and assistance, thereby positively impacting on the Country Risk team effectiveness and efficiency.

Key result areas:

• Provide support to Global Head of Country Risk in various steercom and committee roles (involves pre-, during and post-meeting work).
• Coordinate governance around committee meetings by scheduling of meetings, collation and distribution of committee packs, recording and distribution of minutes.
• Coordinate, collate, edit and see through to completion various reports for management and the board e.g. GROC, EXCO and operating risk reports.
• Prepare any other reporting requirements required by various committees, and financial reporting.
• Involvement in various special projects and assignments of varying degrees of complexity and duration.
• Implementation and maintenance of fit for purpose risk management systems, currently Adaptive and CRS.
• Implementation and maintenance of country risk intranet site.
• Ensure internal audit issues are addressed and responded to.
• Assist in the drafting and reviewing of country risk standard and policy documents.
• Coordinate the annual control risk reviews for Sub Sahara Africa and International country risk as measured against the Country risk standard.
• Assist with budgets and monitoring of cost centre income and expenses on a monthly basis.
• Support Country Risk team in engagement in strategy formulation for business to ensure business aspirations are aligned with country risk appetite.
• Management of a portfolio of countries (involving preparation of country risk reviews, ratings and appropriate limit management).

The ideal candidate will have the following competencies:

Ability

• implement systems, policies and procedures for the identification, collection and analysis of risk related information
• liaise with business risk officers and risk specialists

Experience

• liaising with business risk officers and risk specialists
• analysing and interpreting risk / reward profiles

Knowledge

• economical trends
• corporate banking
• international banking services
• Knowledge and understanding of financial markets

Standard Bank is a South African-based financial services company with a global presence. Standard Bank believes that it is through their people that they will succeed and that only by working together will they make their offering to its customers. Standard Bank - Moving Forward.

Apply online before 18/02/2012.

Business Manager - Country Risk