Job Openings at Equity Bank Kenya

Role Purpose:

• Champion of the BORROW Pillar for the Bank & have Overall responsibility for Portfolio Growth, Income Generation and Portfolio Quality within Business Banking.
• Primarily responsible for proper structuring of Borrower needs/solutions that manage inherent risks associated with the portfolio and ensuring high-quality portfolio.
• Closely work with the relevant stakeholders from Origination, Utilization to Monitoring, playing a vital role in deal structuring to add-value from Business, Credit & Bank Policy perspectives.
• Participate and contribute to cross-selling the Bank’s products across other Pillars – MOVE, SAVE & INVEST and INSURE.

Key Responsibilities / Deliverables:

• Accompany Relationship Managers & Product Specialists, as applicable, in Client visits to originate identified Borrowing needs with a view to seamlessly manage the onboarding process.
• Interact with the client, gather deal requirements, financial statements and other inputs for performing quality analysis and due diligence.
• Work with relevant stakeholders in structuring credit solutions for the clients and ensuring the appropriateness of the products.
• Prepare and secure approval for Term Sheets, wherever required
• Work with relevant stakeholders in:
  • Obtaining all deal pre-clearances i.e. KYC, AML/CT Screening, ESG Review, CRB Check, etc.
  • Deal Structuring and other relations

Qualifications

Qualification / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution
• Master’s Degree and Certification in Credit Related Course is an added advantage

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience
• Good track record of credit analysis and financial understanding.
• In-depth knowledge of the local banking industry, banking products, banking services and banking regulations. Sound working knowledge and understanding of general commercial regulations and practices.

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Job Purpose:

The Manager – Compliance Testing is responsible for executing risk-based onsite and offsite compliance testing engagements across branches and Head Office units, providing independent second-line assurance on control effectiveness and regulatory compliance. The role ensures consistent application of the Compliance Testing Methodology, including testing execution, sampling, scoring, reporting, issue tracking, and remediation validation, while adhering to defined SLAs and escalation protocols.

Delivering high-quality, evidence-based assurance outputs, enabling informed decision-making by Management and strengthening EBKL’s compliance and risk posture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute risk-based onsite and offsite compliance testing engagements in line with the approved testing plan and methodology.
• Perform technical compliance testing and effectiveness assessments across business units, branches, and functional areas.
• Apply approved sampling techniques (systematic, stratified, random, judgmental) and ensure proper documentation of testing procedures and working papers.
• Conduct data analysis and validation for offsite testing, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and reliability of data used.
• Apply the standardized scoring model and five-tier rating scale to assess compliance performance and control effectiveness.
• Prepare clear, concise testing reports detailing findings, root causes, risk ratings, and actionable recommendations aligned to ERMF reporting standards.
• Ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for testing, reporting, and remediation timelines.
• Track, update, and maintain issues logs and remediation trackers, ensuring timely closure of identified gaps.
• Perform validation and re-testing of remedial actions to confirm effectiveness and sustainability of controls.
• Escalate high-risk findings, regulatory breaches, and overdue actions in line with the escalation matrix and governance framework.
• Support thematic reviews, deep-dive assessments, and regulatory inspection preparedness (e.g., CBK reviews).
• Maintain accurate documentation of testing procedures, results, and evidence for audit trail and regulatory defensibility.
• Collaborate with Business Units, BCMs, and Risk Framework Owners to ensure alignment of controls and Principal Risk Types (PRTs) mapping.

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.
• Minimum 4–6 years’ experience in Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, or Assurance
• At least 2–4 years in compliance testing or control assurance roles
• Proven experience in Risk-based testing execution, Control effectiveness reviews, Data-driven compliance analysis, Issue tracking and remediation validation

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong understanding of risk-based compliance testing frameworks and ERMF
• Knowledge of AML/CFT, conduct risk, and regulatory requirements
• Expertise in control testing, sampling methodologies, and data analysis
• Proficiency in compliance scoring models and reporting tools
• Strong analytical, documentation, and report writing skills
• High level of integrity, independence, and objectivity
• Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to drive timely remediation and accountability

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Role Purpose: 

To oversee the execution and quality of regulatory compliance activities, including compliance horizon scanning & change management, regulatory obligations management, and issue remediation tracking. The role is responsible for reviewing outputs, ensuring consistency of application, and escalating risks and issues, while supporting delivery of an effective regulatory compliance framework.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the implementation and alignment of Regulatory Compliance and Conduct Programmes with applicable regulatory requirements, internal frameworks, and Group standards, ensuring effective execution within assigned business areas.
• Drive the operationalization of Regulatory Compliance and Conduct frameworks across business units, ensuring consistent application and adherence to defined policies and procedures.
• Monitor and track regulatory developments and changes, supporting impact assessments and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely identification of implications to the Bank’s operations.
• Provide technical support on regulatory interpretation, reviewing regulatory change impact assessments and contributing to challenge and validation processes to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Maintain and enhance the Regulatory Obligations Register, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and appropriate mapping of regulatory requirements to controls in collaboration with business and functional stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, escalate compliance breaches, policy exceptions, and risk tolerance breaches, ensuring issues are appropriately recorded, investigated, and tracked to closure.
• Prepare and review responses to regulatory requests, inspections, and submissions, ensuring quality and completeness.
• Support regulatory engagement activities, contributing to coordination efforts and maintaining effective working relationships with regulators and relevant external stakeholders.
• Prepare compliance dashboards, management information (MI), and reports, highlighting key risks, trends, and issues for internal stakeholders.
• Utilize and support enhancements to GRC systems and compliance tools, ensuring accurate data capture and improving reporting and monitoring capabilities.
• Apply established methodologies, documentation standards, and templates, ensuring consistency and quality of outputs across the function.
• Deliver or support training and awareness initiatives on Regulatory Compliance and Conduct topics, contributing to capability building across the organization.
• Coordinate cross-functional Compliance and Conduct activities, ensuring effective information flow and collaboration across teams.
• Support alignment between Compliance, Risk, and Business units, ensuring consistent application of regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in law, business, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), ACAMs or equivalent.
• 5–8 years’ experience in compliance, risk, or internal audit in the financial services sector
• Experience in compliance monitoring, regulatory reporting, or obligations management
• Exposure to financial services regulatory frameworks (e.g., CBK, FATF, Basel)

Key skills and Competencies: 

• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance processes and control frameworks
• Ability to review, challenge, and validate compliance outputs
• Good analytical and problem-solving capability
• Strong stakeholder coordination and communication skills
• Team supervision and quality assurance

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Job Purpose: 

To support the execution of the Compliance Governance and Reporting framework through structured coordination, documentation, and reporting activities. The role ensures that compliance-related information is accurately captured, consolidated, and escalated, and that policies and frameworks are appropriately aligned to local regulatory requirements and Group standards.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the preparation of Board and Management compliance reports by collating data, validating inputs, and ensuring completeness, accuracy, and consistency of reporting outputs.
• Prepare and maintain weekly and monthly governance reports, including dashboards and tracking logs, highlighting key compliance metrics, emerging risks, and status of remediation actions.
• Maintain and update compliance reporting packs and templates, ensuring alignment to internal governance standards and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Assist in the customisation and localisation of Group Policies, Frameworks, and Standards to EBKL by mapping local regulatory requirements, identifying gaps, and documenting required adjustments for review and approval.
• Track and update compliance issues, regulatory actions, and internal commitments, following up with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely closure and availability of appropriate supporting evidence.
• Support coordination of governance forums and reporting cycles, including preparation of materials, consolidation of inputs, and tracking of action points.
• Ensure all compliance documentation and reporting outputs are maintained in an audit-defensible manner, with clear traceability and supporting records.
• Escalate data inconsistencies, reporting gaps, or overdue actions to ensure timely intervention.

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA is an added advantage
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Compliance, Governance, Audit Coordination, or Reporting roles
• Exposure to Board/Management reporting or policy governance processes is desirable.

Key competencies and Skills

• Understanding of compliance governance and reporting processes
• Familiarity with regulatory and internal reporting requirements within financial services
• Strong data management skills (data collation, validation, dashboard support)
• Good document management and version control discipline
• Clear and structured written communication skills suitable for management reporting
• Strong organisational and coordination capability

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Job Purpose:

To assist in embedding Regulatory Compliance and Conduct frameworks across the Bank by supporting execution activities, maintaining compliance data and records, and contributing to reporting and coordination efforts in alignment with internal and regulatory expectations.

Key Resposnsibilities

• Support the implementation of Regulatory Compliance and Conduct Programmes by assisting in the execution of established frameworks, policies, and procedures within assigned areas.
• Assist in the application of Regulatory Compliance and Conduct frameworks across business units, ensuring adherence to defined processes and escalation of any deviations.
• Track and compile regulatory developments and updates, supporting the preparation of summaries and initial impact assessments.
• Provide support in interpreting regulatory requirements, assisting with documentation, analysis, and preparation of inputs for regulatory change impact assessments.
• Update and maintain the Regulatory Obligations Register, ensuring information is accurately captured, recorded, and kept current in line with guidance from senior team members.
• Log, track, and support the investigation of compliance breaches, policy exceptions, and risk tolerance breaches, ensuring proper documentation and timely escalation.
• Prepare responses and supporting documentation for regulatory requests, inspections, and submissions, for review and approval by Managers and Senior Managers.
• Support administrative and coordination aspects of regulatory engagement activities, including scheduling, documentation, and follow-ups.
• Compile data and assist in the preparation of compliance dashboards, management information (MI), and reports, ensuring accuracy and completeness of underlying data.
• Capture and maintain data within GRC systems and compliance tools, ensuring records are up to date and aligned with established standards.
• Follow established methodologies, templates, and documentation standards, ensuring consistency in outputs and adherence to compliance processes.
• Coordinate information gathering across teams to support Compliance and Conduct activities, ensuring timely submission of required inputs.
• Provide general support to ensure alignment between Compliance, Risk, and Business units, escalating issues or inconsistencies to senior team members as appropriate.

Qualifications

Education and Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA is an added advantage
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, or Assurance in the financial services industry
• Exposure to financial services regulatory frameworks (e.g., CBK, FATF, Basel)

Key Competencies and Skills: 

• Good understanding of regulatory compliance processes and control frameworks
• Ability to prepare and validate compliance outputs
• Good analytical and problem-solving capability
• Good stakeholder coordination and communication skills

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Job Purpose: 

The role provides independent second-line oversight, technical interpretation, and thematic challenge across the Regulatory Compliance function, ensuring effective implementation and operation of the regulatory compliance framework. The role involves regulatory engagement, correspondence, and reporting, ensuring timely, accurate, and audit-ready interactions with regulators. Through data-driven dashboards, horizon scanning, and regulatory strategy, the role enables proactive risk management, strengthens compliance culture, and ensures the Bank maintains a structured, forward-looking, and regulator-aligned compliance and conduct control environment.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Oversee implementation and alignment of the Regulatory Compliance and Conduct Programmes with regulatory expectations, internal frameworks, and Group standards.
• Support the translation of Regulatory Compliance and Conduct frameworks into consistent application across business units.
• Monitor and report current and proposed changes to legislative and regulatory environment that affect the Bank’s operations or strategic plans and conduct impact/gap assessments in conjunction with the appropriate areas of business.
• Provide technical interpretation of regulatory requirements, review and challenge regulatory change impact assessments and implementation approaches.
• Oversee the integrity, completeness, and effectiveness of the Regulatory Obligations Register, ensuring appropriate mapping of controls to objectives, in liaison with respective businesses/functions.
• Review and escalate material compliance breaches, policy exceptions, and risk tolerance breaches.
• Review and validate responses to regulatory requests, inspections, and submissions, while ensuring significant regulatory matters and sensitivities are escalated accordingly.
• Support coordination of the Bank’s Government and Regulatory Relationships strategy, strengthen regulatory relationships and regulatory intelligence.
• Produce timely and high-quality compliance dashboards, MI, and reporting outputs, ensuring highlights of material risks, insights and trends.
• Adopt and effectively use technology, including the Compliance Modules in GRC system to enhance the control environment and improve Compliance dashboards and reporting.
• Ensure consistency in methodologies, documentation, and outputs across the team.
• Develop and support the delivery of training on Regulatory and Conduct topics, to enhance Compliance and Conduct capability and culture.
• Act as a key point of contact for cross-functional Compliance and Conduct coordination.
• Support alignment between compliance, risk, and business units

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in law, business, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), ACAMs or equivalent.
• 8–12 years’ experience in regulatory compliance, risk, or internal audit in the financial services industry
• Strong background in compliance monitoring, regulatory advisory, and risk oversight
• Experience operating within a highly regulated financial environment
• Familiarity with CBK, FATF, Basel, and international best practices

Key Competencies and Skills

• Strong expertise in regulatory compliance frameworks and financial services regulation
• Ability to apply independent judgement and provide effective second-line challenge
• Strong analytical capability to identify thematic and systemic risks
• Leadership capability with focus on oversight, not execution
• Strong stakeholder management and escalation discipline
• High standards of documentation, governance, and control integrity

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Job Purpose:

The Senior Manager – Compliance Testing is responsible for planning, executing, and overseeing risk-based onsite and offsite compliance testing activities, providing independent second-line assurance on the adequacy and effectiveness of controls across EBKL’s branches and Head Office units.

The role ensures consistent application of the Compliance Testing Methodology, including risk-based planning, technical and effectiveness testing, standardized scoring, SLA adherence, issue tracking, and escalation. It supports the Head of Compliance Testing in delivering high-quality, evidence-based reporting to senior management and Board committees.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and implement risk-based compliance testing plans for assigned portfolios aligned to ERMF and regulatory priorities.
• Lead execution of onsite and offsite testing engagements, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, and methodology requirements.
• Perform technical compliance testing and effectiveness assessments of controls across business units.
• Apply the standardized scoring model and five-tier rating scale to assess compliance performance and control effectiveness
• Ensure sampling methodologies, data analysis, and testing procedures are robust, documented, and defensible.
• Prepare and review high-quality testing reports with clear findings, root causes, risk ratings, and actionable recommendations.
• Enforce and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLA) for testing, reporting, and remediation timelines
• Track, validate, and monitor remediation actions, including sustainability of control improvements.
• Drive timely escalation of high-risk findings, regulatory breaches, and risk appetite breaches in line with ERMF governance structures.
• Maintain and update issues trackers, dashboards, and compliance reporting packs for management visibility.
• Collaborate with Risk Framework Owners, BCMs, and business units to ensure proper PRT mapping and control alignment.
• Support thematic reviews, deep dives, and regulatory inspection readiness exercises (e.g., CBK reviews).
• Provide training and oversight to testing teams to ensure consistency, quality, and independence of assurance activities.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.
• Minimum 6–8 years’ experience in Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, or Assurance
• At least 3–5 years in compliance testing / second-line assurance roles
• Proven experience in Risk-based compliance testing programs, Control effectiveness assessments, Regulatory engagement and inspection readiness, Issue management and remediation tracking

Key Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong knowledge of risk-based compliance testing and assurance frameworks
• Deep understanding of ERMF, AML/CFT, conduct and regulatory requirements
• Expertise in control testing, sampling techniques, and data analysis
• Proficiency in risk scoring models, reporting, and dashboarding
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Excellent analytical, report writing, and communication skills
• High level of integrity, independence, and professional judgment
• Ability to drive accountability, remediation, and continuous improvement

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Job Purpose:

The Assistant Manager– Compliance Testing is responsible for executing risk-based onsite and offsite compliance testing engagements across branches and Head Office units, providing independent second-line assurance on control effectiveness and regulatory compliance. The role ensures consistent application of the Compliance Testing Methodology, including testing execution, sampling, scoring, reporting, issue tracking, and remediation validation, while adhering to defined SLAs and escalation protocols.

The Assistant Manager- Compliance testing supports the Manager- Compliance testing, in delivering high-quality, evidence-based assurance outputs, enabling informed decision-making by Management and strengthening EBKL’s compliance and risk posture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute risk-based onsite and offsite compliance testing engagements in line with the approved testing plan and methodology.
• Perform technical compliance testing and effectiveness assessments across business units, branches, and functional areas.
• Conduct data analysis and validation for offsite testing, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and reliability of data used.
• Support the Manager/Senior Manager- Compliance testing to prepare clear, concise testing reports detailing findings, root causes, risk ratings, and actionable recommendations aligned to ERMF reporting standards.
• Ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for testing, reporting, and remediation timelines.
• Track, update, and maintain issues logs and remediation trackers, ensuring timely closure of identified gaps.
• Perform validation and re-testing of remedial actions to confirm effectiveness and sustainability of controls.
• Escalate high-risk findings, regulatory breaches, and overdue actions in line with the escalation matrix and governance framework.
• Support thematic reviews, deep-dive assessments, and regulatory inspection preparedness (e.g., CBK reviews).

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA is an added advantage
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, or Assurance
• At least 1 year in compliance testing or control assurance roles
• Proven experience in risk-based testing execution, control effectiveness reviews, data-driven compliance analysis, issue tracking and remediation validation is an added advantage

Key Competencies and Skills

• Good understanding of risk-based compliance testing frameworks and ERMF
• Good knowledge of banking operations
• Good understanding of control testing, sampling methodologies, and data analysis
• Proficiency in compliance scoring models and reporting tools
• Good analytical, documentation, and report writing skills
• High level of integrity, independence, and objectivity
• Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to drive timely remediation and accountability

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Role Purpose: 

Leads the delivery of independent, risk-based compliance testing and assurance, ensuring control effectiveness, timely remediation of issues, and actionable insights to support a strong regulatory control environment in all areas of the Bank.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Lead and oversee the design and implementation of a risk-based compliance testing programme, ensuring full alignment to the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Develop and approve the Annual Testing Plan (ATP), ensuring comprehensive coverage of all branches and Head Office functions based on robust, risk-driven prioritization.
• Direct and oversee the execution of both onsite and offsite compliance testing, ensuring adherence to approved scope, timelines, methodologies, and quality standards.
• Provide independent assurance on technical compliance, control design adequacy, and operating effectiveness of controls, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and internal policies.
• Oversee the consistent application of standardized scoring methodologies, rating models, and alignment of testing outcomes to established risk appetite thresholds.
• Review and approve all compliance testing reports, ensuring delivery of clear, insightful, and concise outputs, including robust root cause analysis and executive-level reporting.
• Enforce and monitor adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) for testing execution, reporting, and remediation, including performance tracking and escalation of delays.
• Ensure timely escalation of material findings, high-risk issues, and regulatory breaches in accordance with established governance frameworks and regulatory expectations.
• Oversee end-to-end issue management, including identification, tracking, remediation, validation, and ongoing sustainability monitoring of control effectiveness.
• Drive effective stakeholder engagement through structured communication and socialization of testing outcomes with Heads of Functions, ensuring ownership, accountability, and timely remediation.
• Lead and develop the Compliance Testing team, ensuring delivery of high-quality second line assurance, strong technical capability, and adherence to professional and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.
• Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in Compliance, Risk, or Internal Audit
• At least 5 years in a leadership role within second line or assurance functions
• Proven experience in Risk-based compliance testing, Regulatory engagement, Control assurance and reporting

Key Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong knowledge of compliance testing, risk assessment, and control frameworks
• Good understanding of Banking Operations
• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and their application in practice
• Analytical and data-driven decision-making capability
• Strong report writing and executive communication skills
• Leadership and stakeholder management capability
• High integrity, independence, and professional judgment

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Job Purpose: 

The Head of Regulatory Compliance & Governance provides independent second line leadership and oversight of the Bank’s Regulatory Compliance and Conduct risk framework, ensuring full alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and supervisory expectations. The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust Regulatory Compliance Programme, including policy ownership, regulatory obligations management, and integration into the Enterprise Risk Management Framework. It delivers independent advisory and challenge to business activities, ensuring compliance risks are identified early and managed through effective controls, escalating material risks and requiring corrective action where necessary. The role also oversees regulatory engagement, correspondence, and reporting, ensuring timely, accurate, and audit-ready interactions with regulators. Through data-driven dashboards, horizon scanning, and regulatory strategy, the role enables proactive risk management, strengthens compliance culture, and ensures the Bank maintains a structured, forward-looking, and regulator-aligned control environment.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of the Bank’s Regulatory Compliance Programme, providing strategic direction on the identification, assessment, and management of compliance risks across the organization while ensuring alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and supervisory expectations.
• Own the Regulatory Compliance and Conduct Risk Frameworks and Policies, ensuring they are current, aligned to regulatory requirements, and effectively translated into procedures and embedded within business strategy and day-to-day operations.
• Establish and maintain the Bank’s Regulatory Obligations Register as a comprehensive, enterprise-wide control framework, ensuring full regulatory coverage and effective translation of regulatory requirements into actionable obligations and controls.
• Lead the development and execution of regulatory strategy, incorporating proactive engagement, regulatory interpretation, and participation in industry forums to anticipate, influence, and respond to evolving regulatory expectations.
• Ensure alignment and integration of compliance risk within the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), including risk registers, control libraries, and enterprise-wide risk reporting mechanisms.
• Oversee the identification, interpretation, gap analysis, and dissemination of new and evolving laws, regulations, and supervisory expectations, supported by proactive horizon scanning processes to ensure timely implementation of regulatory change.
• Provide independent regulatory advisory and second line oversight on new products, business initiatives, and strategic activities, ensuring compliance risks are identified early and that appropriate controls are embedded by design.
• Establish and enforce governance over regulatory correspondence, including notifications, submissions, applications, and supervisory interactions, ensuring consistency, quality, completeness, and auditability while maintaining regulatory confidence.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and comprehensive responses to all regulatory enquiries, requests, and supervisory actions in line with regulatory expectations and internal governance standards.
• Lead the design, development, and continuous enhancement of integrated Conduct and Compliance dashboards, delivering accurate, real-time, and forward-looking risk insights to Senior Management, EXCO, and the Board while enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Drive the automation and digitization of compliance processes through the implementation and optimization of GRC system and reporting infrastructure to enhance efficiency, control effectiveness, and reporting accuracy.
• Oversee the implementation and embedding of conduct, ethics, and integrity frameworks, including Speak Up, Conflicts of Interest, Insider Trading and Market Abuse, Gifts and Entertainment, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption, ensuring consistent application across the organization in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Provide effective oversight and challenge to ensure Compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures remain aligned to applicable regulatory requirements and best practices while maintaining clear second line independence.
• Oversee the effective functioning of governance forums, including the Financial Crime Risk Committee, ensuring adherence to approved Terms of Reference and robust governance standards.
• Ensure timely escalation of material regulatory breaches, policy exceptions, and risk tolerance breaches, including notification to Senior Management, the Board, and regulators where required, and oversee the implementation and closure of appropriate remediation actions.
• Exercise independent second line oversight with clear authority to challenge business decisions, escalate material risks to EXCO and the Board.
• Lead the development and execution of a Government and Regulatory Relationship Plan (GRRP) to strengthen engagement with regulators, enhance supervisory relationships, and generate actionable regulatory and market intelligence for the Bank.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external networks to ensure continuous awareness of regulatory developments, emerging risks, and industry best practices, thereby supporting the ongoing enhancement of the Bank’s compliance and conduct risk management capability.
• Lead, mentor and develop team members under the Regulatory Compliance and Governance unit.

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in law, Business, or any related field.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), ACAMs or equivalent.
• Master's degree in Law, Business or related fields is an added advantage.
• 10+ years of experience in Compliance, at least 5 - 7 years in a senior leadership role, with proven capability in leading frameworks, managing regulatory relationships, and providing independent oversight in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deep regulatory expertise, strong governance capability, and independence of thought to provide oversight, influence outcomes, and embed a robust compliance and conduct culture.