Compliance Officer (Parktown) at Rand Mutual - RMA
Rand Mutual - RMA
October 23, 2026
Full-time
On-site
Description
THE JOB AT A GLANCE
As a Compliance Officer, you will be reporting into the Compliance Manager, you will be responsible for conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies, and develop and implement compliance policies in liaison with regulators. Assess and report on compliance risks, investigate incidents and take action to ensure compliance.
Has knowledge of government laws and regulations affecting the company's business area, and ability to interpret laws and regulations in light of operations.
Ensure all external regulatory frameworks are complied with within reasonable risk and cost parameters. RMA-specific purpose: To pro-actively and constructively assist the RMA Group in managing its responsibility to comply with all applicable regulatory legislative requirements, applicable regulatory codes and standards, and internal policies and procedures.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Regulatory and Compliance Management:
Help design and implement a compliance program, liaising with the regulator to ensure the program adheres to regulatory and compliance standards. This may also or alternatively involve supervising the activities of a regulatory/compliance team.
Regulatory Affairs:
Take responsibility for providing specific elements of the regulatory affairs service with guidance from senior colleagues.
Quality Management System:
Contribute to the identification and evaluation of current policies and business processes that are in the scope of the Quality Management System; contribute to the design of the QMS; provide specialist quality management input to the drafting of new policies and procedures, and design of business processes; contribute to the quantification of the costs and business benefits of change.
Audit Compliance:
Manage a portfolio of audit assignments, ensuring that the team plans and delivers audits that cover identified risk areas and that appropriate corrective actions are agreed on with auditees. Resolve issues arising from audits and refer serious or contentious issues to the audit program leader.
Compliance:
Identify shortcomings in compliance processes, systems and procedures, and suggest and implement appropriate improvements. Work is focused on an assigned unit or discipline.
Operational Compliance:
Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
Identify, within the team, patterns of non-compliance with the organization's policies and procedures, and with relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, taking appropriate action to report and resolve these and escalating issues as appropriate.
Leadership and Direction:
Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan, and the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
Provide guidance and coaching to Interns and junior staff in the Compliance Function.
Requirements
WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TABLE?
Undergraduate Degree/Honours Tertiary Degree/Legal Degree/Compliance qualification
Admission as an attorney or advocate
8 years compliance experience
6 years working experience within an insurance or financial institution
Registered as a Compliance Officer with the FSCA
FSCA Regulatory Exam (RE1) an advantage
Member of the CISA
Professional Compliance Designations i.e. CPRAC(SA) or CPROF(SA) a requirement
Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific
end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)
THE JOB AT A GLANCE
As a Compliance Officer, you will be reporting into the Compliance Manager, you will be responsible for conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies, and develop and implement compliance policies in liaison with regulators. Assess and report on compliance risks, investigate incidents and take action to ensure compliance.
Has knowledge of government laws and regulations affecting the company's business area, and ability to interpret laws and regulations in light of operations.
Ensure all external regulatory frameworks are complied with within reasonable risk and cost parameters. RMA-specific purpose: To pro-actively and constructively assist the RMA Group in managing its responsibility to comply with all applicable regulatory legislative requirements, applicable regulatory codes and standards, and internal policies and procedures.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Regulatory and Compliance Management:
Help design and implement a compliance program, liaising with the regulator to ensure the program adheres to regulatory and compliance standards. This may also or alternatively involve supervising the activities of a regulatory/compliance team.
Regulatory Affairs:
Take responsibility for providing specific elements of the regulatory affairs service with guidance from senior colleagues.
Quality Management System:
Contribute to the identification and evaluation of current policies and business processes that are in the scope of the Quality Management System; contribute to the design of the QMS; provide specialist quality management input to the drafting of new policies and procedures, and design of business processes; contribute to the quantification of the costs and business benefits of change.
Audit Compliance:
Manage a portfolio of audit assignments, ensuring that the team plans and delivers audits that cover identified risk areas and that appropriate corrective actions are agreed on with auditees. Resolve issues arising from audits and refer serious or contentious issues to the audit program leader.
Compliance:
Identify shortcomings in compliance processes, systems and procedures, and suggest and implement appropriate improvements. Work is focused on an assigned unit or discipline.
Operational Compliance:
Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
Identify, within the team, patterns of non-compliance with the organization's policies and procedures, and with relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, taking appropriate action to report and resolve these and escalating issues as appropriate.
Leadership and Direction:
Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan, and the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
Provide guidance and coaching to Interns and junior staff in the Compliance Function.
Requirements
WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TABLE?
Undergraduate Degree/Honours Tertiary Degree/Legal Degree/Compliance qualification
Admission as an attorney or advocate
8 years compliance experience
6 years working experience within an insurance or financial institution
Registered as a Compliance Officer with the FSCA
FSCA Regulatory Exam (RE1) an advantage
Member of the CISA
Professional Compliance Designations i.e. CPRAC(SA) or CPROF(SA) a requirement
Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific
end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)