Johannesburg: Policy Writer posted by The Skills Mine

Requirements:

• A Bachelors in Law, Commerce, Risk, Finance, or related field.
• CISA, AML / ACAMS or related compliance or risk credentials (advantageous).
• 35 years in banking or financial services compliance or policy role.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating and facilitating policy reviews and rationalisation sessions with business owners, risk, and compliance teams across all entities.
• Responsible for driving AI-assisted policies rationalisation, using automation tools to compare, summarise, and draft policy content, while applying human review for completeness, clarity, and alignment with the Groups principles.
• Responsible for applying the Group Policy Framework to rewrite policies into a universal, country-neutral format that maintains group alignment while enabling entity-specific nuances.
• Responsible for supporting policy owners in maintaining the regulatory annexe sections, which capture local regulatory requirements or country-specific deviations – only facilitating a full rewrite where required.
• Responsible for tracking progress and maintaining version control, ensuring updates are captured in the central Policy Register.
• Responsible for producing reports summarising key differences between versions and recommending unified policy versions suitable for group adoption.
• Responsible for collaborating with stakeholders across Risk, Legal, IT, HR, and Operations to validate and finalise policy outputs.
• Responsible for preparing project status updates for Risk forums.