IT Governance Performance Analyst at Equity Bank Kenya

Senior IT Governance Analyst will act as the central point for developing, maintaining, monitoring and enforcing IT policies and procedures. The role will review existing process alignment and compliance and ensure adoption of industry best practice ( COBIT 5). The role will participate actively in the activities of all IT Governance and IT strategy focus areas: Value Delivery, Performance Management, Risk Management, IT Planning, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture and Business Continuity. The role requires the ability to motivate and drive IT teams to understand the value of policies and adhere to procedures and process requirements.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Develop a plan and brief for IT Governance assessment as per COBIT 5 guidelines
• Conduct overall IT governance assessment as per Cobit 5 guidelines
• Conduct assessment for IT operations and identify process gaps and compliance gap.
• Define IT operations GAP as per industry best practice
• Define process and compliance GAPs from the assessment
• Hold feedback sessions with the process owners.
• Report on the gaps identified during assessment
• Classify the GAPs based on relevance, risk and time (High, Mediam, Low)
• Define high level roadmap of process definition and GAPs closure
• Define high level roadmap of process definition, roles, skills and gaps closures.
• Implementation of process GAPs closure
• Report on GAP closure
• Identify process that needs to be improved as per best practice
• Hold stakeholder sessions to discuss the process improvement needs
• Take actions to ensure the process is improved
• Report on the progress of the process improvement
• logging, tracking & solving issues within IT that need to be addressed besides the process
• Governance and COBIT assessment. The issues may arise from different areas such as
• Finance, Audit, compliance, process clarification, risk etc
• Validate IT invoices & ensure that payments are aligned to business value and the right cost center and are within the contracted Amount. Timely processing of payments to avoid penalty as result of late payment, avoid double payment of expenses/  support invoice payment tracking: Update ad report  as and when required update

Essential Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of formulating IT Governance objectives and goals and developing effective techniques for deriving these objectives from IT initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of IT industry standards and best practices as they relate to IT governance such as CGEIT, CoBiT 5 and CMMI.

 
Qualifications

Key Critical Competencies

• Business awareness
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills
• Excellent planning skills
• High personal standards and goal oriented
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing Key Soft Skills
• Good effective communication skills
• Organized, Proactive, and Results Driven
• Problem solving tactics to projects and tasks assigned
• End User Empathy & Understanding of Business Strategy
• Adaptability to changing strategy and culture
• Ability to Carry a Meeting and Make Decisions
• Team Player & Great Attitude
• Eagerness to Learn
• Sixth Sense through intuition of issues and risk articulation
• Knowledge Sharing and Mentoring

Requirements:

• A University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, and/or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Analysis: Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions
• Demonstrated ability to effectively balance multiple responsibilities which may frequently change
• Ability to learn information quickly and apply risk/control considerations which impact downstream decisions
• High degree of professionalism and personal integrity
• Ability to work with a high degree of independence
• Excellent documentation skills (process, control, policy, and risk documentation)
• Able to record information accurately
• Able to remain calm under pressure