Sandton: Programme Manager posted by Rosstone

About the Role

The Programme Manager role at Rosstone is responsible for managing the strategy, planning, organising, negotiating, staffing, directing, and controlling all aspects of projects or programmes to ensure successful implementation and alignment with business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing Directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes
• Ensure compliance by sanctioning credit decisions based on the credit policy guideline in conjunction with relevant strategy and analysis
• Identify various credit risks pertaining to a client by analysing and interpreting financial, market, and business information
• Manage and sustain acceptable credit risk appetite by applying credit risk management processes to diverse portfolios
• Develop and prepare portfolio review presentations based on the Management Information System (MIS)
• Enhance policies and procedures by recommending and making submissions to the relevant parties
• Adapt to changes in Legislation, economic, and industry conditions by implementing changes to credit policies, processes, and systems where applicable
• Review and evaluate information from direct reports and stakeholders to ensure quality of submissions of credit applications/reviews/portfolio reports
• Provide operational support for Governance, Compliance, and risk-based assurance
• Deliver compliance risk management programmes and advice
• Ensure compliance risks are managed by developing an annual risk-based compliance monitoring programme across client-facing clusters
• Provide advice to stakeholders on compliance risks by giving input to cluster compliance risk monitoring plans and responding to queries from stakeholders
• Provide guidance in the completion of subsidiary compliance risk monitoring programmes by providing guidelines, input, and review
• Prepare reports for submission internally and to the regulator, to Group Risk, Group Audit Committee (GAC), to Group Executive Committee by collating relevant information according to the annual timetable, quality, and standards
• Collate the annual Group Internal Audit strategic plan by grouping themes and prioritising themes into tangible deliverables and measurements
• Track progress of delivery of annual Group Internal Audit strategic plan themes and priorities by monitoring outputs and deliverables
• Highlight process inefficiencies to stakeholders through end-to-end process mapping of processes in Group Internal Audit and advise stakeholders accordingly
• Ensure Group Internal Audit business continuity plan is updated annually by obtaining sign-off of, and submitting plan on the Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS) to ensure business continuity
• Provide input, related to data governance deliverables, into the Group Operational Risk Management (GORM) budget in line with Finance requirements and business plans
• Contract deliverables, services, and pricing with the banks clusters and agree transfer pricing allocation to clusters
• Utilise budget allocation effectively by implementing enhancements to data governance practices and improve efficiencies for the benefit of stakeholders
• Establish regulatory capital by providing input into, and advice on the alignment between data governance and bank clusters’ risk profile and risk appetite by recommending corrective action or mitigating strategies

Requirements

• 10 years experience working in a project environment of large projects and/or programmes
• Advanced Diploma/National 1st Degrees SMP or equivalent
• PMP or Prince certification or equivalent PM framework
• Programme Management certification (PGMP)
• Exposure to credit risk management processes and diverse portfolios

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications not specified in the original job description.