Lead Specialist Risk Management

POSITION: Lead Specialist: Risk Management

LOCATION: South Africa

JOB GRADING: D Upper (Indicative)

Role Details

Gold Fields is seeking a Lead Specialist Risk Management to lead the application and continuous improvement of enterprise risk management across Group Functions and Assets. Reporting to the Senior Manager Enterprise Risk Management, the successful candidate will provide specialist risk judgement, challenge risk assessments and mitigation plans, escalate out-of-tolerance risks, and deliver decision-useful insights to executive and governance forums that support value protection, organisational resilience and disciplined risk-taking.

The role will play a critical part in strengthening risk management practices across the organisation by partnering with leaders, facilitating risk assessment activities, monitoring critical risk exposures and ensuring the consistent application of enterprise risk management principles across Gold Fields.

About the role:

- Maintain and continuously improve the Group Enterprise Risk Management framework, including risk methodology, appetite, tolerances, taxonomy and rating criteria.

- Oversee Asset and Group Function risk registers to ensure clear ownership, credible controls, defined actions and escalation pathways.

- Lead top-risk refreshes and emerging risk assessments, identifying changes in internal and external risk exposures.

- Prepare and quality-review enterprise risk reporting for the CFO, Exco, Board and Audit & Risk Committee forums.

- Monitor Key Risk Indicators, tolerances and critical risks, escalating out-of-tolerance exposures and delayed mitigation actions.

- Challenge and guide leaders on risk assessment quality, control effectiveness, mitigation adequacy and alignment with risk appetite.

- Support Group resilience, crisis management and business continuity planning for material enterprise risks.

- Develop practical risk tools, guidance and training to embed consistent risk management in planning and major decisions.

- Coordinate Group risk review cycles and ensure consistent methodology across Assets and Group Functions.

- Facilitate senior risk workshops to define causes, consequences, controls, actions and residual exposure.

- Track out-of-tolerance risks and ensure corrective actions are owned, prioritised, delivered and escalated.

- Resolve complex risk methodology queries and escalate matters requiring policy, appetite or senior management judgement.

- Identify systemic themes, control weaknesses and dependencies, and recommend practical management actions.

- Align enterprise risk management with combined assurance, internal audit, insurance and transformation governance reporting.

- Coordinate with the Insurance Function on Asset Engineering Reviews as part of the insurance renewal process when specialist advice and support are required.

About you:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in Risk Management, Finance, Commerce, Internal Audit, Business, Engineering or a related discipline.

- Postgraduate qualification or professional certification in enterprise risk management, governance, assurance or internal audit will be advantageous.

- Minimum 8–10 years’ relevant experience in enterprise risk management, compliance, internal audit, assurance, finance, mining, heavy industry or a complex corporate environment.

- Experience supporting executive-level risk reporting and governance processes.

- Strong technical capability in enterprise risk management frameworks, methodologies, risk appetite and tolerance setting.

- Experience with risk taxonomy, risk assessment methodologies and controls evaluation.

- Experience monitoring Key Risk Indicators, critical risks and mitigation actions.

- Knowledge of emerging risk analysis, business continuity and resilience planning.

- Experience aligning enterprise risk management with combined assurance and internal audit activities.

- Experience preparing or quality-reviewing reports for executive, Board, Audit or Risk Committee forums.

- Strong analytical judgement, attention to detail and problem-solving capability.

- Clear communication and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

- Strong planning, prioritisation and collaboration skills.

- High levels of integrity, confidentiality and professional judgement.

- Ability to manage multiple demands and priorities under pressure.

Closing Date for Applications: 09 October 2026

Applications can be submitted via SuccessFactors

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