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Kananelo Lentsoane

Kananelo Lentsoane

Wilgeheuwel

Summary

Strategically and analytically focused professional with a wealth of Operational Risk Management knowledge in the financial industry. My career objective is to obtain a position with specific exposure in risk management, assurance activities, improved control environment and operations environment, while developing new core competencies and skills in business operations and Forensic/Fraud investigations.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Consultant: Risk, governance and control

Absa Group Limited (Retail Transactional Banking)
Johannesburg
09.2017 - Current

Providing business with appropriate direction and guidance on the implementation and embedment of the operational risk framework. Ensure that through the effective facilitation of the Risk and Control Assessment process, that the control environment within business is effectively managed.

The above will be achieved through:

Assisting business in the identification of risk through:

· The review of current policies and procedures and assessment on current and future changes.

· The Risk and Control assessment (RCA) set up, analysis and management.

· The assessment of Group Policies and their applicability to the business area.

Monitoring of control environment through the establishment of:

· Control self-assessments

· Snap checks or conformance reviews

· Operational Risk Self assessments twice yearly

· Refresher of RCA bi-annually.

· The management of the risk event process.

· The identification and monitoring of key risk indicators

· Ensuring that all stakeholders completed the compliance/regulatory and operational risk training.

· Facilitation of the SOX review and attestations applicable to area of business

Ensure that the Governance is in place to manage the risk control framework by:

· Establishment and management of the risk governance forum in co-operation with Operational Risk.

· The management of the operational risk orientation in business , in order to establish business ownership

· The facilitation of management of the RCA actions, overdue items and ineffective controls.

· Validate issues raised by assurance providers

Documentation and reporting:

· Management of the Operational Risk system and all applicable reporting with regards to the RCA’s, events, actions and related items.

· Ensure the correctness and distribution of the Governance and Control scorecard to the correct stakeholder.

Business risk office (Group Human Resources)

Absa Bank
Johannesburg
01.2008 - 09.2017

Ensures proper delivery of Risk Management Requirements, capabilities and oversight across HR,

Provides a clear understanding across the 2nd line value chain and its responsibilities

Support the 1LOD to deliver on a satisfactory control environment as well as the Management Control Approach (MCA).

Facilitate full embedment of a risk culture in HR

Assist 1LOD to identify risks, articulate risk, understand risk and determine effective and sustainable controls

Act as a support function in the HR risk management framework including requirements related to:

• Basel II

• Sarbanes Oxley

• Business continuity Management

• Information Risk Management (including Data Privacy management)

• Regulatory Compliance

• Group-wide human resources policies and processes.

• Impart the knowledge to anyone in HR requesting support.

• Preform pre audit self assessments

• Perform processes walkthrough to identify control points and improve HR operations (Risk assessments)

• Building of Key Risk Scenarios

• Coordinate People risk requirements as defined by Barclays (Holding company)

• Maintaining key risk indicators and following up on threshold breaches

• Capturing risk events

• Assist Business units to close Audit issues

• Maintain a list of dispensations, waivers and breaches against policies on behalf of business

• Reporting

Trainee - Internal Audit

National Development Agency
01.2006 - 02.2006
  • Physically count the company’s assets, assign barcodes to them, capture them on the computer system using excel, print the asset register and then reconcile the old asset register with the new asset register.
  • Trainee - Internal Audit

Education

Business Analysis Foundation Program - Business Analysist

FACULTY TRAINING INSTITUTE
Johannesburg, GP
12.2025

Post Graduate Diploma in Business management and administration -

University of Stellenbosch –Business School
12.2023

Post Graduate Diploma in Forensic Auditing - Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing

University of South Africa
Johannesburg, GP
12.2018

Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing - Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing

University of South Africa
12.2013

BCom (internal auditing) - Internal Auditing and Accounting

University of South Africa
12.2008

Skills

Coordinating the Sox process

Experienced in Conformance testing

Experienced in Sox Auditing (Including documenting)

Management self-assessment reviews

Risk and control implementation and assessments/evaluations

Key Risks Scenarios formulation (Economic Capital allocation)

New regulatory requirements impact assessments and implementation

  • Business analysis

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
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evening
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Timeline

Consultant: Risk, governance and control

Absa Group Limited (Retail Transactional Banking)
09.2017 - Current

Business risk office (Group Human Resources)

Absa Bank
01.2008 - 09.2017

Trainee - Internal Audit

National Development Agency
01.2006 - 02.2006

Business Analysis Foundation Program - Business Analysist

FACULTY TRAINING INSTITUTE

Post Graduate Diploma in Business management and administration -

University of Stellenbosch –Business School

Post Graduate Diploma in Forensic Auditing - Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing

University of South Africa

Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing - Programme in Forensic and investigative auditing

University of South Africa

BCom (internal auditing) - Internal Auditing and Accounting

University of South Africa
Kananelo Lentsoane