About Purpose of Position: Senior Manager: Compliance & Governance Jobs at Transnet

Reporting to the EM: Legal & Compliance, the Senior Specialist: Compliance & Governance is required to assist the TPT Exco and management in discharging their responsibility to comply with applicable statutory, regulatory and supervisory requirements and enabling TPT to demonstrate to regulatory authorities that it is fit and proper to undertake its business by, among others, managing its compliance risks through identification of a regulatory universe, prioritisation and management. Provides legal direction and leadership within the Corporate Governance, Business Risk & Legal functionality and all stakeholders on all matters relating to the National Ports Act and enabling legislation

Transnet Senior Manager: Compliance & Governance Job Requirements

Transnet Senior Manager: Compliance & Governance job requirements are following:-

Qualifications & Experience:
• Law / B Comm Degree or relevant Business Degree with Post Graduate Qualification in Compliance or similar
• Managerial Diploma / MBA an advantage
• Minimum 8-10 years’ professional experience, with at least 5 years at a senior management level with a focus /
specialization in Legal & Financial Compliance, Corporate Governance and / or Regulatory monitoring or legislation.
Competencies:
Lead, motivate & and develop people
▪ Conflict resolution between regulators and TPT
▪ Enterprise management
▪ Strategic engagement with external bodies
▪ Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
▪ Superior interpersonal and communication skills
▪ Ability to an analyse and interpret technical and legal documents
▪ Consulting and advisory skills
▪ Effective negotiation skills
▪ Strong interpersonal skills
▪ Proactive and a self-starter
▪ High ethical standards
▪ Able to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
▪ Credibility and integrity
Understanding of strategic, functional, operational and
technical management and related risks
▪ Enterprise risk management concepts and frameworks
▪ Knowledge of governance best Practices
▪ In-depth knowledge of applicable legislation, regulations
▪ In-depth knowledge of corporate governance and best practice frameworks
▪ Knowledge of research methodologies and practices
▪ Knowledge of information management processes,
procedures, and systems
▪ Relationship management

Senior Manager: Compliance & Governance Job Responsibility for Transnet Job Vacancy

Position outputs:
1. Leading, directing and managing the specialist portfolios within the department:
• Regulatory & Compliance Risk Management (including the national Ports Act)
• Compliance Monitoring
• Governance and Company Secretariate function
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2. Provide legal direction and leadership within the Corporate Governance, Business Risk & Legal functionality and all
stakeholders on all matters relating to the National Ports Act and enabling legislation
3. Responsible for planning, scheduling and ensuring the implementation of all compliance duties/activities, including the
maintenance of Group Compliance Policy and Standards across TPT
4. Develop and drive the TPT compliance strategy
5. Identify and prepare new compliance policies or amending existing policies as appropriate as new legislation is introduced
or when existing Acts are amended.
6. Provide advice and guidance in the assessment of compliance levels across TPT.
7. Develop and implement practices within the company that ensure compliance with the regulatory and policy regime across
TPT. Ensure that such company practices are aligned to policy and regulatory requirements.
8. Manage and ensure appropriate compliance reporting at various governance forms
9. Maintain the policy governance framework and improve where necessary
10. Manage the regulatory environment to identify new applicable regulatory items and amendments to existing items and
provide advice in respect of regulatory items.
11. Review legislation and interact with key stakeholders to identify implications of new or amended legislation for TPT and
submission of comments to Group Compliance (Transnet
12. Analyse applicable legislation and draft Compliance Risk Management plans (CRMPs), referring to legal sections and
interpret what this means in simple language and the implications thereof on the compliance function to ensure that adequate
controls can be built and implemented in the terminals.
13. Develop and maintain relationships with regulators and maintain an up-to-date register of all Regulators in accordance
with the protocols on engagements with regulators. Further, develop strategic relationships with regulators to minimise impact
of fines and penalties on the organisation, and to ensure business sustainability.
14. Proactively communicate across TPT on new Acts, amendments or when Acts are repealed so that they can be abreast
of changes in regulatory requirements and put compliance measures in place.
15. Review new business for compliance with regulatory requirements
16. Proactively manage high risk regulatory requirements that may require a project intervention.
17. Provide support to Group Compliance with Ad hoc Compliance Projects
18. Manage the development of systems & processes to appropriately develop and manage compliance risk management
plans, prioritised regulatory universes developed by TPT and Group Compliance, and tracking tools to monitor
implementation of compliance requirements
19. Ensure sharing of lessons learnt in terms of exposures, notices and monitoring results to ensure appropriate corrective
action is implemented across TPT.
20. Management of Corporate Governance and TPT/Group Governance Committee meetings in line with Transnet Governance Policies.
21. Manage and ensure compliance with National Ports Act, providing any expert opinion, or direction in terms of litigation on
areas of disagreement