Risk and Compliance Officer at Mater Misericordiae Hospital

Main Duties

• Co-ordinating and improving risk management within departments
• Reviewing all Internal & External Audit reports to extract relevant risk & control information for use in reporting and remediation.
• Monitoring and reporting on any adverse Key Performance Indicator / Key Risk Indicator trends that arise.
• Monitoring resolution of all associated Internal Audit recommendations post audit issues
• Assessing compliance with policies and procedures in the departmental units, with emphasis on controls strengthening.
• Tracking and analysing incidences of frauds (successful and attempted) identify causes and implement with respective units’ comprehensive measures to close loopholes.
• Supporting the training of staff on Risk and Control Self-Assessment
• Coordinating the operationalization of the Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) framework across the Hospital.
• Ensuring development and implementation of a continuous risk identification and assessment program through timely completion of RCSAs and Risk Reports.
• Working with Business units within the Hospital to establish, maintain and continuously improve risk management capabilities.
• Supporting the development and improvement of Risk related Standard Operating Policies and
• Procedures across the various Business and Support units
• Ensuring sufficient follow through on management actions to mitigate risks identified.
• Collect and collate Risk and Compliance Management Information for management review.
• Champion documentation of inter departmental Service Level Agreements during quality assurance reviews.
• Supporting the development and implementation of the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) framework for the Hospital
• Reviewing of BCP programs and tools to ensure they are updated.
• Ensuring BCP testing is carried out as per the schedule of the Hospital.
• Supporting training of staff on BCP.
• Coordinate the administrative and logistical duties of the Risk and Compliance Department
• Participating in quality improvement initiatives within the department and provide reports as required.
• Any other related duties assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Business, Healthcare Management or IT academic background.
• Additional professional qualifications, i.e., IRM, CRM, CRA, FRM will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of Five (5) years of working experience in Risk Management, including at least three (3) years of relevant working experience in the healthcare industry.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to anticipate and mitigate risk by developing appropriate risk management policies for the hospital.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and Risk management guidelines in Healthcare.
• Analytical thinker.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills