Jobs at Kenya Airways

Job Purpose:

The Ethics & Integrity Manager serves as the organization's internal control point for ethics and improprieties, allegations, complaints, and conflicts of interest and provides corporate leadership and advice on corporate governance issues. The role primarily will support driving the airline’s Ethics & Integrity direction as part of the Risk Management and Compliance strategic direction, supporting Ethics & Integrity activities and investigations in a business-oriented way and aim to achieve consistency across the organization.

S/he will be responsible for providing impartial services to the management and employees of the organization regarding its policies and procedures related to integrity in the workplace. As such, the Ethics & Integrity Manager provides assistance in reviewing and resolving matters regarding ethics and conduct in the workplace in a manner that contributes to the good governance of the organization and helps to maintain its reputation for probity, integrity, and impartiality.

Principal Accountabilities (KEY Performance areas):

Accountability (Responsibility)

• Develops and disseminates corporate ethics statements, policies and supporting forms/acknowledgements.
• Provides an internal review of other corporate policies to ensure corporate consistency and integration with the company's ethics philosophies including integrating the corporate ethics message throughout the corporate culture.
• Oversees the development and implementation of corporate ethics and conflict-of-interest training and conducts ethical decision-making training for senior management on ethics issues and avoiding conflicts of interest.
• Promptly conducts investigations pursuant to complaints and allegations of ethical wrongdoing or conflicts of interest including preparing written investigative reports as necessary.
• In conjunction with Legal Counsel, conducts annual corporate governance audits to determine the state of the organization and presents findings to superiors including risk minimization with respect to issues that lend themselves to identity theft.
• Develops and maintains confidential procedures for the handling and processing of complaints and allegations including providing a process for the confidential hearing of employee issues related to the ethics or conflicts.
• Leads Company Ethics and Assurance and is the focal point for the internal reporting of any allegations of Code of Ethics violations, including fraud, corruption, and bribery.
• Liaises with teams in implementing corrective measures/actions as part of case resolution.
• Performs periodic internal control reviews and spot-checks of financial, procurement, human resource, and logistics procedures at both local and international offices.
• Develops monitoring plans and training material as well as performing periodic compliance reviews for stakeholders including partners, vendors, suppliers, etc.,.
• Follows-up to resolution of relevant external and internal audit findings.
• Leads and provides oversight of the company Ethics & Integrity Program to assure compliance with legal, regulatory, policy and ethical requirements impacting the organization.
• Develops, reviews and monitors implementation of the organizations Ethics & Integrity plan/program/policies consistent with emerging best practices as necessary.
• Leads the Ethics & Integrity program, training, and sensitization across the organization.
• Oversees the Whistleblowing platform and process ensure that questions and concerns raised through the platform are promptly and appropriately addressed.
• Oversees all Ethics & Integrity-related investigations
• Acts as the Secretary of Ethics & Integrity Committee.
• Appraises the Audit Committee in a timely manner of matters related to Ethic & Integrity.
• Manages the records on reported incidences/cases, initiates investigations when required and reviews the results of investigations.

Knowledge, Skills and experience:

• Degree in law, human resources management, business, social sciences, or any other relevant field.
• A Master’s degree in the relevant field will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional work experience, at least 7 years of which should be in fields related to ethics and corporate compliance as an Ethics Officer, or related position.
• Experience in dealing with the development and enforcement of code of ethics, and or standards of corporate conduct.
• Experience in international organizations and/or multi-cultural environments is desirable.
• Progressive work experience in management of Fraud/Financial investigations, Asset Tracing & Recovery, Ethics & Integrity and strategic operations in the public or private sector.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, to inspire trust, and to demonstrate high personal integrity is crucial.
• Ability to listen to others, correctly interpret messages, and respond appropriately.
• Proactive and effective communications skills including the ability to explain complex topics clearly and concisely.

Behavioural Competences:

• Customer focus.
• Teamwork/team player.
• Results oriented.
• Problem Solving Skills.
• Good organizational skills.

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Job Purpose:

The role is responsible for end-to-end Finance business partnering support of the Airline’s business units. This includes reporting (weekly/ monthly), forecasting (weekly/monthly), planning (quarterly/annual/ long-range plan), decision support and performance management.

The analysts extract, transform, and collate all the data required to facilitate the department’s planning, performance evaluation and reporting in general. The analysts also execute standard and adhoc analyses on revenue and cost performance to generate actionable insights that enable the department to optimize performance..

Principal Accountabilities (KEY Performance areas):

Strategy Implementation

• Drive the achievement of the approved Revenue and Cost business plans (including Capital Budgets) for the financial year.
• Deliver accurate and practical cost and revenue budgets / plans for subsequent year(s) on time.
• Support in the preparation of quarterly / bi-annual reforecasts
• Support analysis and preparation for recurring strategic reviews; enabling Operational / Finance leaders to stay connected to the highest priority strategic initiatives across the business and influence direction.

Financial

• Monitor cost performance and engage Cost Center owners on cost saving actions to ensure overhead expenditure is below budget by the set cost saving targets.
• Provide standard and adhoc reports and analyses to facilitate revenue optimization and help achieve set revenue targets
• Support the sections in reviewing of Business Cases/Justifications and contracts to ensure that KQ gets a return from its investments.

Customer

• Hold monthly sessions with internal customers during which feedback on the health of the working relationship will be an agenda item to build relationships that facilitate management of costs and revenues.
• Execute detailed periodic internal customer surveys and Implement feedback arising from the survey.
• Operational Excellence Adhere to the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting calendar and achieve 100% coverage on variance analysis with clear business explanations given for deviations to help monitor and facilitate the understanding of key operating and financial trends with respect to revenue, expenses, and headcount trending in Commercial.
• Improve the accuracy of financial reports by identifying and correcting erroneous records and recommending process improvements to close gaps that lead to repeat errors

People and Culture

• Implement the initiatives identified through the employee baseline
• survey.
• Share with colleagues to ensure cross-sectional knowledge sharing,
• consistency in performance and business continuity.

Enterprise Risk Management

• Support the achievement of targeted performance level for Internal Control Environment

Knowledge, Skills and experience:

• Degree in a business-related specialization; especially Accounting or Finance
• Full Accountancy Qualification (CPA(K) / CMA, ACCA)
• Knowledge of appropriate Software: MS Excel, ERP etc
• Minimum 3 years in an analytical environment
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills to enable moderately complex financial modelling and analysis.
• Understanding of other tools used in data analytics (R, Python, SQL)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Behavioural Competences:

• Team working
• Results focus.
• High Integrity and honesty