Company secretary to a a listed company who focuses on lifestyle related assets in the retail space. Long4Life owns well known brands such as Sorbet, Sportsmans and Outdoor warehouse.The company secretary role includes responsibility for group-wide risk and compliance and other specialist areas such as share-based payments, director and board support, overall responsibility for governance and group related publications such as the group's integrated reports and SENS announcements.

1. Strategic support:Act as key advisor to the Executive Director providing knowledgeable review and recommendations for intended policy shifts ensuring that context, analysis and the views of the respective areas are collated, filtered and summarised in a concise manner.• Attend a multititude of strategy forums and key management committees to stay up to date with operational conditions and provide early warning to the Executive Director of any probable issues and proposed… Show more 1. Strategic support:Act as key advisor to the Executive Director providing knowledgeable review and recommendations for intended policy shifts ensuring that context, analysis and the views of the respective areas are collated, filtered and summarised in a concise manner.• Attend a multititude of strategy forums and key management committees to stay up to date with operational conditions and provide early warning to the Executive Director of any probable issues and proposed solutions.• Ensure that policy or strategy decisions taken by the Executive Director are communicated to the correct audience in a timely manner and guage the understanding and commitment from the audience. Periodically review the tactical plans put in place in the business unit to deliver the strategy as set out and ensure that continued focus is maintained on the key deliverables.2. Development of Business Unit seniors:Ensure that decision-making within the business unit is devolved to the lowest appropriate level to support the business objectives of empowering and growing the competence of line decision-makers.• Interface with the Executive Director's direct reports on a regular basis to understand the operating environment and to assist them to prioritise focus areas and budget allocation.• Participate in the recruitment process for senior roles in the business unit by conducting pre-screening together with the Head of HR for the cluster.• Work with the Head of HR for the cluster to coordinate the execution of performance reviews for business unit heads ensuring that appropriate preparation is done prior to formal reviews with the Executive Director.3. Administration and Operational Risk Management Show less

Establish and lead the Control, Standards and Support division for the Retail and Business Bank (RBB) Franchise with the intention of enhancing risk management activities and improving the control environment.Enhancement to be achieved through the design and implementation of updated control standards & guidance, metric based monitoring & reporting and provisioning of pro-active support.

Responsible for executing the duties of the Principle Risk Owner (PRO) for Fraud. This includes owning and embedding a Fraud Risk Control Framework and related Policies to ensure the effective management, review and reporting of fraud risk across the Absa group.

Overall responsibility for the management and implementation of the Payments Risk and Control function for the Bank and conformance across the business to these standards. The role included management of the overall risk profile of the Payments business unit and their Operational Risk requirements amongst others.

Overall responsibility for the integration and embedment of the Risk and Control framework across the business.The role included overall responsibility for the Regulatory Compliance framework, Legal risk framework as well as Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime risk and control frameworks.This role furthermore reported to the Board Risk Committee and the business' Audit committee.