Business Unit: Discovery Life
Function: Risk Management
Date: 6 Jun 2025
Discovery Life
Risk Manager
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Life
Discovery Life is an ever growing fast-paced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships
Key Purpose
The key purpose is to support the risk management function in the Life and Invest business by delivering against and facilitating the risk management programme and activities.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Consistent, on time delivery of the risk reporting requirements for the Life and Invest business
- Stakeholder management - ensuring the accurate reporting of risk exposures within the various business functional units through regular formal engagement with management
- Managing the risk profiles of the Life and Invest businesses to ensure the information on the profiles is up-to-date, relevant and an accurate representation of the business environment
- Performing risk assessments as required by the risk management plan
- Supporting the Head of Risk in delivering on the Risk Management plan for the Life licence businesses
- Providing technical risk management support in business meetings, and risk reviews
- Promoting a strong risk management culture within the business through engagement, challenge of risk information
- Supporting and guiding junior staff
Education and Experience
Essential:
- Matric
- BCom, BSc (Risk Management or Finance) from an accredited institution
- 3 years’ work experience in a risk management or related position
Advantageous:
- Risk Management degree
- 3 years’ work experience as a Risk Analyst or Risk Manager
Technical Skills and Knowledge
Essential:
- Understanding of relevant regulations and compliance requirements applicable to the SA financial sector
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to manage projects related to risk assessment, mitigation, and compliance
- At least 4 years of insurance and/ or investment platform experience
Advantageous:
- Familiarity with risk management frameworks such as COSO, ISO 31000, or NIST
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Report job
