Job Description

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africaxe2x80x99s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bankxe2x80x99s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOBThe purpose of LBI Risk Governacne and Reporting function is to support Head of Risk to discharge the primary responsibility of risk governance and risk reporting aspects and the oversight/ coordination aspects of the financial soundness and key entity level controls. The function will be coordinate and support the development and implementation of the LBI risk governance framework, supporting processes and reporting. This is a manner that meets business and regulatory requirements. Through the key entity level controls, provide the requisite assurance to the Senior Management (Exco) on the overall internal control framework and the implementation Risk policies across LBI entities.

Land Bank