- Job Type Contract
- Qualification Bachelors , Matric , National Certificate
- Experience 4 years
- Location KwaZulu-Natal
- City Pietermaritzburg
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
Risk and Compliance Manager at Agribusiness Development Agency
Risk and Compliance Manager
Minimum Requirements:
- Must have completed Matric.
- An appropriate Bachelors Degree/National Diploma Qualification in Internal Auditing/Accounting / Risk Management.
- Valid Driver’s license.
- Minimum of 4 (four) years operational experience in an Auditing/ Risk Management. A minimum of 2 years supervisory experience in Risk Management
Competencies, Knowledge, And Skills:
- PFMA, Treasury Regulations, Accounting Principles. Analytical Organizing Presentation/report writing.
- Knowledge and understanding of the role of internal and external audit in public sector. Knowledge of risk management processes and techniques.
- Computer literacy skills, Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work in a team environment
- Membership with Institute of Risk Management or Institute of Internal Audit will be an added advantage.
Key Performance Areas:
- Provide strategic direction and manage the Risk management function of the organisation.
- Develop, maintain and execute a comprehensive process for identifying, assessing, mitigating, monitoring and reporting on risks that may impact on organisational performance.
- Conduct Irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure assessment and determination test.
- Liaise with Provincial Treasury Quarterly and reporting Irregular expenditure incurred by the entity.
- Apply for condonation at Provincial Treasury on behalf of the entity.
- Liaise with Loss control committee with regards to Irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure cases.
- Maintain the entity fraud hotline.
- Develop and monitor the strategic, operational and fraud risk registers.
- Conduct organisational risk management workshops and meetings compilation of risk registers on an annual basis.
- Develop and update the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Develop enterprise risk management related policies and procedures including fraud prevention strategy, the detection and reporting.
- Facilitate the process of fraud awareness.
- Ensure that the risk management unit is adequately resourced.
- Strengthen collaboration with other internal and external risk mitigating providers.
- Compile and present risk management report to the Accounting officer and Audit and Risk Committee.
- Report periodically to the CEO and the Audit and Risk Committee.
- Ensure compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.
- Reviewing documents, developing and administering surveys, developing summaries and compiling work papers.
- Compliance and promoting legal compliance with all legal prescripts.
- Performing investigations at the request of the Board and Audit Committee.
- Manage day to day relationships with various stakeholders including provincial Treasury.
Closing date: 20 November 2025
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Agribusiness Development Agency on ada-kzn.co.za to apply

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