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Auckland, New Zealand

• Managing the Line 1 Risk team within the WNZL Risk Management business unit.• Embedding WNZL’s operational risk management and compliance frameworks within the business environment to ensure its ongoing effectiveness.• Providing risk assurance and oversight of key controls underpinning our customer journeys to ensure they mitigate material risks identified in line with our operational risk and compliance management frameworks.• Providing advice, risk management guidance and assurance on the business units projects and product and services lifecycle change initiatives.• Proactive issue and incident management.• Facilitating operational risk and compliance forums within leadership teams.• Influencing senior business leaders to embrace and adopt a robust and open culture of operational risk and compliance management.• Developing training and risk awareness materials to uplift risk maturity.• Delivering timely, relevant and insightful reporting for executive risk governance forums.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Actively take part in the redesign, implementation and ongoing review of ASB’s approach to Operational Risk Management, including frameworks, supporting tools and practices. • Develop and deliver changes that drive uplift in ASB’s operational risk management capability and risk culture.• Partner with stakeholders to achieve sound operational risk management across the organisation. • Provide stakeholders with insightful advice, guidance and practical support that will advance ASB goals and enable sustainable operational risk management outcomes.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Implementation and management of Risk and Control processes, procedures and reporting which enable the bank to effectively manage all Compliance and Risk outcomes in line with organisational and industry frameworks and obligations. • Engage key stakeholders to facilitate effective outcomes and help shape the strategic direction of the business providing risk management leadership and subject matter expertise for regulatory change, and compliance.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Responsible for managing the Free State, Northern and Western Cape Outstanding Returns units within the Business and Individual Taxation division. • Responsible for collecting the returns and/or outstanding debt of the respective tax base within the region. • The development of strategic and operational plans and the related risk methodology with regards to debt management and the collection of outstanding returns.• Informing the Revenue (all tax types) Risk engine within SARS.• Ensure that the business units comply across a broad spectrum of regulatory requirements. • Provide consultation to internal management and external clients.• Monitor compliance through various means including statistical sampling.• Provide regulatory compliance reports to management.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the management of the Eastern, Northern and Western Cape Case Selection units within SARS’ Customs and Excise environment. • The development of risk related cases for Customs Audit.• Targeting of prohibited and restricted goods in the sea, air and land modalities.• Informing the Customs Risk engine within SARS.• Ensure that the business units comply across a broad spectrum of regulatory requirements. • Provide consultation to internal management and external clients.• Provide expert testimony before legislative and regulatory bodies.• Monitor compliance through various means including statistical sampling.• Provide regulatory compliance reports to management.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the management of two Tax Enforcement units within SARS.• Collection Operations unit responsible for the collection and analysis of information related to high risk tax cases.• Information Collation unit responsible for the exchange of information between SARS, our foreign revenue counterparts, national enforcement partners and the related information management thereof.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the management of the Compliance Risk Technology Support unit within SARS.• The unit’s main responsibilities included the management of Tax and Customs Compliance Risk analytical systems, tools, and processes.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• A specialist role responsible for Pre-employment screening.• Security Vetting Investigations in line with all related Intelligence legislation.• The implementation of Fraud and Corruption prevention controls.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the management of a Data Mining Centre within Defence Intelligence.• The unit’s main responsibilities included; compiling Intelligence products, personality profiles and interest profiles for the division.• Advising the Directorate Collection with regards to Intelligence collection in the electronic environment.• Effective and efficient information management.• Research and Development of information systems for Defence Intelligence.• The development of training programs for Data Mining personnel.

Senior Management Development Programme, Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate, Taxation

Ba Honours Degree In Industrial And Organisational Psychology, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Military Science And Operational Studies