Manager, Regulatory Compliance at Equity Bank Kenya

Job Purpose:  

The role holder will be tasked to support the Group Compliance, Financial Crime and Conduct Risk function by ensuring that the Group has an optimal, effective, efficient, and regulatory compliant financial crime risk management framework. The role will assist the team in ensuring that the Group is kept appraised of relevant changes in laws and regulations, emerging risks and potential gaps in managing and implementing international and local regulatory requirements.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the team to implement and maintain an effective Group Compliance risk management framework and provide guidance on how compliance risks are managed.
• Collaborate with the other stakeholders to identify, control and assess compliance risk in the Group.
• Deliver regulatory advice to stakeholders in line with Group risk appetite and manage second line processes to ensure adequate risk reviews on new businesses, products, and systems on an ongoing basis. 
• Assist to drive effectiveness of the Group Compliance Risk Framework by incorporating effective and practical advice into sound early-stage second line challenge.
• Support the rollout and implementation of effective Compliance training across the Group.
• Assist with the Group’s approach, including an effective Group Obligations register, for the timely identification of opportunities to enhance management and oversight of Compliance risk, and ensure appropriate action is taken by relevant parties to deliver improvements.
• Work with relevant stakeholders in the Group to ensure that the required controls to mitigate compliance risk are embedded into new products and initiatives.
• Evaluate effectiveness of available metrics and enhance or design new metrics to identify trends, patterns, or potential areas of concern. 

Qualifications

Qualifications, Experience:

• Degree in Law, Business Administration, or related field
• Professional Certification such as CAMS, ICA.
• Requires 6+ years of professional experience in regulatory compliance. 

Key Competencies & Skills:

• Compliance risk management experience, with significant portion in compliance risk within large international banks, insurance and technology companies. 
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance and requirements within the banking industry
• Good experience in leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage Compliance risks. 
• Critical thinking skills to understand and analyze complex problems.
• Effective communicator with strong writing and verbal abilities to communicate across all levels of the Group. 
• Ability to develop strong relationships and collaborate with senior business and function leaders to influence change. 
• Proven focus on deliverables, organized, and ability to manage. multiple high priority deliverables. 
• Self-starter, highly organized, and detailed-oriented. 
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills. 
• Proven record in conducting compliance testing