Board Risk & Governance Programme
Executive/Board2 daysGovernance, Assurance & Integrity
Programme overview
Designed and delivered for boards and board committees rather than for management. Focuses on what a director is accountable for, what a director should be asking, and how to tell whether the risk and compliance information reaching the boardroom is adequate. Delivered in board settings across Eswatini's financial and public enterprise sectors. Available as a full board offsite.
Who should attend
Board chairpersons and non executive directors, audit and risk committee members, board secretaries, chief executives and executive committee members, public enterprise board appointees, and trustees of retirement funds and medical schemes.
Sectors
Banks and financial institutions, insurers and retirement funds, public enterprises and parastatals, SACCOs, listed and family owned corporates, statutory bodies.
Modules
- The governing body's role in risk: King V Principles and what they demand in practice
- Director duties, the business judgement rule, and personal liability in a governance failure
- Setting and approving risk appetite: the questions a board must ask before signing
- Reading a risk report critically: spotting the risks management is not telling you about
- Combined assurance: obtaining a coherent picture from internal audit, compliance, risk and external audit
- The audit and risk committee's agenda across a year
- Oversight of AML/CFT: board accountability, and what supervisors expect a board to know
- Oversight of technology, cyber and artificial intelligence risk without technical expertise
- Crisis and reputational events: the board's role before, during and after
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the risk and compliance functions
- Board risk governance self assessment
Learning outcomes
On completion delegates will be able to:
- State your accountabilities as a director for risk and compliance
- Interrogate a risk report and identify what is missing
- Approve a risk appetite statement with confidence
- Assess whether your assurance coverage is adequate
- Run an effective audit and risk committee meeting
- Assess your board's own risk governance maturity
Tools and templates provided
- Board risk governance self assessment tool
- Audit and risk committee annual agenda planner
- Director's question bank for risk, compliance and AML reports
- Risk appetite approval checklist
Assessment and certification
Facilitated self assessment and board simulation. No formal examination.
Certificate of Completion.