Job Advert Summary

(Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To developed and implement and tactically manage all ethics initiatives at operational level in the organisation.

Key Performance Areas

1. Develop and implement a compliance monitoring plan using accepted standards, methodologies and tools

• Design detailed CRMP’s for Ethics and implement for monitoring and control improvement
• Conduct thorough internal investigations on non-compliance issues and breaches of Ethics policies.
• Take leading role in coordinating internal and external audits including inspections with Regulators.
• Develop management reports, including ethics and fraud risk watch list report and disseminate to various stakeholders.
• Provide the Social Ethics Committee with assurance that business units throughout the Bank have appropriate ethics risk management processes in place.
• Establish a compliance framework

2. Develop and implement robust internal controls and compliance programs: Governance; Compliance; Assurance and Monitoring Oversight (Bank-wide)

• Monitoring Bank’s activities and deliberations to ensure the respect of the Values and Principles included in the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct
• Develop management reports, including risk watch list report and disseminate to various stakeholders.
• Resolving ethics and fraud issues as they arise
• Liaise with the Internal Audit Department to facilitate the generation of a ethics risk based Internal Audit plan.
• Develop ethics risk intelligence systems to predict and identify emerging ethics risks.
• Partner with Compliance and Product stakeholders to ensure ethics are considered and built as part of new product or other initiatives.
• Ensure timely remediation of all relevant findings identified by third-parties (Internal Audit, regulatory exams), as well as self-identified items.

3. Governance and Compliance Oversight: Ethics Culture and Management. Establish best practice and create a sound compliance and ethics culture in the organisation

• Ensuring ethics considerations are embedded in decision-making processes;
• Acting as custodian and mediator of ethical and governance matters to protect the integrity of the Bank as a whole
• Ensuring all staff and management have updated Declarations of interest on more regular bases and in all meetings on record;
• Design, Develop and implement Ethics Policy, draft the ethics policy, and circulate the policy to management & Board for approval
• Perform the duties of an Ethics Officer for Land Bank and assist teams in this environment

4. Develop Ethics Risk Strategy and Clear Action plans to achieve highest level of Ethics maturity level

• To design new ethics strategy or review current one based on a detailed benchmarking exercise to inform the gaps and action plans
• To support ethics function and the Bank by ensuring ethical leadership and conduct across the Bank
• to contribute to the strategic functioning of Ethics by promoting ethical conduct and decision-making in all Bank activities;
• To lead the ongoing enforcement of the Code of Ethical Conduct
• Collaborate and partner with all business units and regions to implement, embed and enhance ethics by design.

5. Policy and Regulatory Compliance Reporting

• Supporting the CRO, CEO and Chairs with managing and mitigating identified ethical issues
• Policies & Procedures: Ensuring the adoption and implementation of the Code of Conduct by all
• Ensuring existing governance documents are periodically reviewed and revised as needed and endorsed by Governance structures
• Code of Conduct breaches are appropriately and timely reported,
• Promoting and supporting compliance with the Whistle-blowing Policy,
• Ensure that ethics and fraud risk policies are in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

6. Design & develop ethics and regulatory training Bank-wide

• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction
• Providing advice, ongoing guidance and support to all Executives and Board members, and staff
• Ensuring all staff, Executive, Board members are trained and aware of their roles and responsibilities;
• Tracking the completion of formal/physical and e-learning modules by all
• Oversee deployment of relevant ethics and fraud risk training for all employees.
• Facilitate orientation and training for the Board Committee and ensure the training of all stakeholders in their risk management functions.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• Relevant 4-year tertiary qualification (B Com, LLB, Risk Management, Law degree) – Postgraduate. Plus professional accreditation in Ethics and related (i.e. CPrac; Ethics; CISA, Fraud etc.), must be a member of Ethics Institute and certified Ethics Officer
• 8 years experience in Compliance, Ethics, and Governance
• 2 years experience at Management level within Ethics, Compliance, governance

Critical Competencies

• Policies and Procedures
• Ethics & Compliance Management principles
• Regulatory reporting and oversight on ethics and fraud
• Legislation and knowledge of legal frameworks on ethics & fraud
• Microsoft
• Compliance software’s and systems
• Process Engineer
• Legal knowledge
• Microsoft Office
• Governance

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required