Risk and Compliance Specialist

Oceana Group, the fishing and food company behind brands such as Lucky Star, is looking for a permanent Risk and Compliance Specialist in Cape Town. The role supports the group’s enterprise risk management and compliance oversight across its South African, Namibian and US operations: running risk assessments, tracking regulatory change, coordinating combined assurance and building a culture of compliance.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the annual review of the ERM and compliance policies and frameworks for RiskCom approval
• Facilitate divisional and functional risk assessments, maintain the risk registers and report on mitigation and KRIs
• Identify emerging risks from legislative and PESTLE analysis and train risk owners
• Monitor legislative and regulatory change, maintain the compliance obligations register and track remediation
• Convene the Compliance Forum, run the annual compliance training plan and contribute to quarterly board reports
• Support the Combined Assurance Plan and second-line compliance assurance
• Update, test and train on the group business continuity plan

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in risk management, law, commerce, internal auditing or a related field
• A postgraduate qualification or professional certification (e.g. IRMSA or Compliance Institute SA) is an advantage
• 3-5 years’ ERM and/or regulatory compliance experience, ideally in a JSE-listed or similarly governed organisation
• Experience facilitating risk assessments, maintaining risk registers and supporting combined assurance
• Sound grasp of the three-lines-of-defence model, working knowledge of a GRC tool, and strong board-level writing skills

Posted: 24 August 2026. Closing date: 10 November 2026.