Job Description
Job Overview:
- To minimize risk of loss by defining and ensuring compliance with the approved risk management framework and processes for identification, controlling, managing and reporting operational , underwriting and claims, strategic and reputational risks across all businesses of the GIP.
Job Responsibilities;
- Establish framework, procedures and practices to ensure that operational, strategic and reputational risk is appropriately identified, measured, monitored and controlled
- Drive implementation of operational risk action plan approved by the board
- Oversees the implementation of operational risk approach and strategies that are aligned with the GIP’s vision, mission and corporate objectives
- Identifies specific business risks in light of strategy and business specific operational changes
- Determine and approve operational risk tolerance limits
- Formulate and ensure compliance with sensitive operational risk policies
- Develop strategies for mitigating all business and operational risk
- Oversee and ensure the integrity of operational risk assessment process across the business
- Provide direction and drive assimilation of Operational risk management culture across all levels and functions Company wide
- Establish risk mitigation and control processes
- Ensure quarterly surveys are carried out on all identified stakeholders
- Ensure timely regulatory renditions of reports
- Regularly estimate economic capital for strategic, reputational and operational risks
- Estimate and ensure stress testing on strategic and reputational risk
- Develop risk models for measuring strategic and reputational risk
- Establish and maintain effective BCM for business resilience in GIP
Requirements;
- A first degree in any discipline.
- Relevant Master’s degree, preferably in Risk Management.
- Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in operational risk management within the Financial Services Industry , of which at least 3 must have been in the Insurance Sector
- Recognized professional certification such as ACII, ACIIN, MIRM, CFA, ACCA, ACA, etc.
Skills and Competencies Requirement;
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Knowledge of operational risk best practices
- Advanced knowledge of operational, strategic and reputational risk measurement methodologies
- Insurance Operations
- Technical Expertise
- Environmental / Industry Analysis
- TQM
- Documentation
Generic Skills
- Strategic Focus/ Orientation
- Integrity and Discretion
- Initiative/ Proactive
- Entrepreneurship
- Analytical skills / Problem solving
- Resilience, Tenacity and Integrity
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication (oral & written)
- Supervisory Skills
- Leadership
- Mentorship
- Initiative/Entrepreneurship/ taking ownership
- Team building / conflict management
- Organization & coordination
- General managerial /administration