Regulatory Risk- Assistant Manager

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Job Description

• Evaluate legal and regulatory control design issues, develop mitigation plans, and assess and design regulatory controls procedures and policies
• Leads interactions with client’s business stakeholders to gather key information on regulatory controls components (e.g. control environment, risk assessment, control activities) to enable a comprehensive assessment
• Employs an analytics and technology-driven approach to regulatory controls assessment to enable real-time analysis and data-driven decisions
• Independently performs testing of regulatory controls for design and operating effectiveness
• Drives analysis of regulatory control deficiencies to prioritize gaps and develop targeted mitigation plans
• Assesses and develops policies and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Ability to assess various components of the client’s regulatory compliance system to identify gaps and prioritize solutions
• Conducts regulatory compliance current-state assessments, identifies gaps and prioritizes remediation by leveraging an in-depth understanding of regulations (current and potential) that are relevant to the client’s business
• Analyzes key components of the client’s regulatory reporting process (e.g., automation, documentation, review and approval) to identify gaps with leading practices.
• Assesses policies and procedures to analyze compliance with regulatory requirements and evaluate.
• Where necessary, reviewing legal agreements for the identification of risk for alignment to legislation
• Executing detailed common law and contract law research where necessary to support regulatory interpretation questions
• Development of opinions in respect of the impact of common law and regulation on the interpretation of contracts

Qualifications

• LLB Degree
• At least 2 years legal articles
• At least 3 or 4 years post articles work experience.
• 2 years’ consulting experience which must include at least 1 years’ regulatory interpretation and policy drafting experience.
• Legal and regulatory research across African jurisdictions.
• Legal and regulatory research in respect of digital and technology implementation projects
• Data and technology regulation experience advantageous

Additional Information

Technical Competencies:

• Technical expert in regulatory interpretation and policy drafting
• Technical expert in contract interpretation in the context of legisation
• Demonstrated project management skill
• Consulting skills
• Experience in drafting and presenting to clients
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding
• Business acumen
• Lexis Nexus
• Admitted attorney

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