Role Purpose/Business Unit:

Signature Programmes – To drive signature technology assurance initiatives from a strategy, governance, risk & compliance perspective and managing risk expectations across all delivery phases.

Technology Governance – Lead the Governance and Reporting work across Vodacom South Africa as it relates to King IV by developing a strategy to ensure that all Technology BUs follow a Technology Governance Framework. Subsequently report on this to forums such as Technology Assurance Steerco, Audit, Risk and Compliance Committees.

Continuous Assurance – To drive the automation opportunities across technology to reduce the risk factor and standardise controls across divisions.

Controls Implementation – To successfully coordinate the effective implementation of robust compliance standards to ensure standardization and simplification across people, processes, and systems.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) – To fulfil the role of SME for Technology Governance, Risk and Controls requirements and initiatives within the Technology function.

Training and Awareness – To supply training to employees on all levels within Technology, promoting awareness of Technology risk and controls.

Leadership – Steer Technology Assurance initiatives through team leadership (project squad), defining project goals, communicating with stakeholders, and managing VSA Technology Exco expectations.

Stakeholder Engagement – relationship management at a ME, CIO and CTO level.

Your responsibilities will include:

Perform reviews on technology processes, systems, infrastructure, and network infrastructure across the Cyber Security and GITC environments with the aim of proactively enhancing the control environment.

Support and guide senior management on recommendations for closure of high-risk items.

Design and lead the implementation of controls across the Cyber Security and GITC environments within Technology and related processes.

Lead a team to implementation Continuous Assurance techniques across the Cyber Security and GITC environments.

Manage the end-to-end senior stakeholder relationship across Technology, providing proactive support and guidance to senior stakeholders (MEs, CIO and CTO) on the management of technology risks through robust controls.

Server as a domain lead and subject matter expert for end-to-end governance related matters within a specific Technology domain.

Process Governance and Quality – Design, implement and monitor policies, processes, procedures as required.

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

Overall experience – at least 5-8 years

At least 5 – 8 years’ experience in leading risk, assurance, controls, and compliance management in a technology environment

At least 5-8 years’ experience in Technology Security or a Technology Audit function in a management role would be advantageous.

At least 5-8 years’ experience in process definition and management

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Providing proactive support and guidance to senior stakeholders

Governance and Reporting

Technology Governance in large enterprises (specifically KING IV)

Risk Management and control in a Technology environment

IT Audit, Risk or Assurance in large enterprises

Relevant Frameworks (COBIT, ITIL, ISO9001, ISO50001, SOX etc) preferable

Technical/Infrastructure controls knowledge is preferred of the following platforms:

Operating Systems (UNIX, LINUX, Windows)

IT Networks

Firewalls

Databases (SQL, Sybase, Oracle)