Risk Coordinator (Infrastructure investment)

A pan-African infrastructure investor is looking for an experienced risk professional to join their risk team.

Job responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the overall risk strategy and policy and ensure risks taken by the Group are consistent with the Enterprise Risk Management framework and the risk strategy.
• Assist in the implementation and monitoring of the Enterprise Risk Management framework, tools, practices, and policies to identify, measure, report, monitor and manage enterprise risks across the group.
• Support in the design and implementation of second level controls and proactively identify and implement internal control improvements to ensure that risks are effectively managed.
• Support the Risk team in identifying, assessing, monitoring, analyzing and aggregating risks within the organization and reporting on these risks to the Senior Leadership Team and Senior Management across the Group.
• Develop/ Update risk dashboards and risk reports to provide information, analyses and insights to risk owners, Business Units, and the Senior Leadership Team to monitor, mitigate and manage risks.
• Support the Risk team in developing, reviewing and updating Group risk related policies and ensuring that these policies are in compliance with applicable regulations and the strategic imperatives of the group.
• Support the Risk team in ensuring and monitoring compliance with risk policies, procedures, and controls consistently with the risk appetite of the Group and Business Units.
• Support the implementation of risk and compliance procedures, including Integrity Due Diligence (IDD), AML-CFT, Conflict of Interest etc.
• Support due diligence exercises related to investment into Businesses Units, Funds and Platforms of the Group.
• Support the Risk team in responding to investor and stakeholder IDD requests made of the Group and work closely with the investment and investor relations teams in responding to IDD questions.
• Assist in implementing risk and compliance education and training to ensure employees have adequate awareness and understanding of the overall risk strategy, the Enterprise Risk Management framework, other risk-related policies and internal control standards.

Requirements

• At least a Bachelors’ degree in a Financial, Scientific, Mathematical, Engineering or Economics background.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years’ in-depth experience with knowledge and understanding of risk management in an investment management, development finance, private equity, or investment banking environment.
• Strong interest in and passion for financial markets.
• Good knowledge of macro-economics and finance.
• Strong communication skills (both oral and written) with proven exposure to leadership.