Compliance Specialist - Pretoria, South Africa - SET Recruitment Consultants

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Pretoria, South Africa

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Compliance Specialist

Division Land Bank Insurance Company

Unit LBIC

Remuneration

Job Type Classification Permanent

Location - Country - South Africa

Location - Province

Gauteng - Location - Town / City - Centurion

Job Advert Summary

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To support the Compliance Officer and the Head of the Compliance Control Function in ensuring that LBIC and LBLIC (LBI) complies with all relevant statutory, regulatory and supervisory requirements which relate to the Insurance, Operational Standards as well as policies and procedures.

Key Performance Areas

1.
Completion and submission of regulatory returns

Identify all applicable returns
Review all applicable policies and procedures and ensure that issues of noncompliance are

communicated to the affected areass

Compile a checklist for all regulatory returns with due dates
Produce a monthly compliance checklist
Coordinate and collate all the returns timeously from various stakeholders
Submit statutory returns on or before due date
Submission of the statutory returns on or before the due date

2. Review and Monitoring of internal policies and procedures

Ensuring that areas of noncompliance are tracked until resolution
Evaluate proposals and review against compliance criteria
Compile and provide compliance related advice to management in respect of existing and new business
Communicate the regulatory universe and risk profile to relevant stakeholders
Communicate the implications of the regulatory to senior management
Develop, review, coordinate and facilitate approval protocol and implement policies and procedures within area of responsibility
Facilitate the development, review, approval and implementation of appropriate internal organisational policies, procedures and controls in line with business requirements and regulatory requirements in order to strengthen corporate governance
Engage with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and identify the need for business policies and procedures in support of business processes
Foster and maintain compliance culture through regular appropriate communication on policies
LBI policies and procedures are reviewed and aligned to regulatory requirements.

3. Population of Compliance Risk Management Plans for the full LBI Regulatory Universe

Identification of all legislation applicable to LBI
Populating Compliance Risk Management Plans for each applicable legislation
Ensuring that each provison is risk rated and controls are identified and recorded accordingly
Ensuring that each action plan on the CRMP is tracked until resolution
All LBI applicable legislation is populated on a completed CRMP with all the controls

4. Identification of new and upcoming regulatory requirements

Identification of all new and upcoming regulatory requirements applicable to LBI
Creating awareness to the LBI Business Units on all new and upcoming regulatory

requirements

Represent the the organization on governance compliance related matters and various forums.
Participate in industry body to ensure alignment of compliance methodology and influence national trends in compliance risk management.

5. Regulatory Training for LBI employees

Identify all applicable regulatory training
Draft and present a training plan to the Head of the Compliance Control Function
Ensure that staff regulatory training is scheduled and conducted as per the training plan

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

Bachelors Degree in Finance or Law
3 years experience within the Financial Services Industry
3 years of Compliance Management experience within financial services

Critical Competencies

Knowledge of financial services industry
Knowledge of life and nonlife legislative framework
Compliance Management Principles and Processes
Management of the Compliance Risk Management Plans
Knowledge of Business Principles
Knowledge and interpretation skills of all applicable legislation to the Insurance business and ability to communicate these at all levels.

Additional Requirements

Travel as and when required
Extended hours as and when required

APPLICATION QUESTIONS

QUALIFICATIONS
Please indicate your area of specialisation.

Please indicate your highest qualification achieved.

EXPERIENCE
Do you have at least 3 years experience in the financial services industry

Do you have at least 3 years compliance management experience in the financial services industry?

Do you have at least 3 years of sound knowledge of the life and non-life insurance legislative framework?

Do you have at least 3 years of sound knowledge of Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act?