Job Vacancies at CA Global

Job Description:

The Head, Conduct & ABC shall support the Group Director, CFCC by working with other Risk and the business leaders to manage the strategy and execution of the Group’s Conduct risk framework and ABC program. The role supports the effective management of conduct risk in the Group and provides pro-active, accurate and timely advice on conduct risk and ABC matters to enable all subsidiaries operate in accordance with regulatory requirements, global best practice, conduct risk plan and the Group’s code of conduct. The role will require good knowledge of conduct risk frameworks and ABC programs, as well as the potential sources of conduct and ABC risks and the impact on client outcomes. The role shall work with other leaders in the first and second lines of defense to identify, assess, monitor and address such activities.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Group Director, CFCC to implement and maintain effective Group Conduct risk framework and ABC program and provide strategic direction in how they are managed.
• Work with the Head of Compliance Risk Assessment, Governance & Testing as well as other relevant Group stakeholders to identify, control and assess Conduct and ABC risks in Group.
• Advise on pre-approval processes for Gifts, Travel and Entertainment (GTE) requests and sponsorship events.
• Deliver regulatory advice to stakeholders to ensure that Conduct and ABC regulatory requirements are fully understood and met on an ongoing basis in all business activities and in line with Conduct and ABC risk appetite.
• Drive effectiveness of the Group Conduct Risk Framework and ABC program by incorporating effective and practical advice into sound early-stage second line challenge.
• Support the rollout and implementation of procedures for the Group’s control room to manage the flow of sensitive information and mitigate the risk of conflicts from the Group’s multiple services. The role will lead in ensuring that employees consistently exercise discretion in handling discrete information, using policies, procedures, agreements, declarations, attestations, etc.
• Develop an approach for the timely identification of opportunities to enhance the management and oversight of Conduct and ABC risks, and ensuring appropriate action is taken by relevant parties to deliver improvements.
• Work with the Head of Regulatory Compliance, and other relevant stakeholders in the Group, to ensure that new products and initiatives; customer communications; and product literature in the Group meet required customer outcomes and are of delivered to standard.
• Implement a process that identifies and manages potential conduct risks from regulatory change initiatives and provides assurance that changes have been effectively embedded in the relevant business areas.
• Develop and implement strategies to broaden internal and external networks and keep up to date with regulatory requirements and industry best practice to continuously improve the effectiveness of Group conduct and ABC risk management.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Requires 12 years of professional experience and 5+ years of management experience.
• No less than 9 years of compliance management experience, with significant portion in ABC, Conduct risk and Ethics within a large international bank or corporation.
• Master’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.
• Strong understanding of Compliance obligations and requirements within the banking industry.
• Good experience in leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage Conduct and ABC related 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.
• Strategic and critical thinking and the ability to concisely convey complex regulatory concepts and possible solution sets.

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Job Description:

The Head of Regulatory Compliance shall support the Group Director, CFCC by working with other Risk and the business leaders to manage the strategy and execution of the Group’s Compliance risk framework. The role supports the effective management of Regulatory Compliance related risks in the Group and provides pro-active, accurate and timely advice to enable all subsidiaries operate in accordance with regulatory requirements, global best practice and applicable Group standards. The role requires good knowledge of Compliance risk frameworks, the potential sources of compliance risk and collaboration with other leaders in the first and second lines of defense to identify, assess, monitor and address such activities.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Group Director, CFCC to implement and maintain effective Group Compliance risk framework and provide strategic direction in how they are managed.
• Collaborate with the Director of CFCC Risk Assessment, Governance & Testing as well as other relevant Group stakeholders to identify, control and assess compliance risk in the Group.
• Deliver regulatory advice to stakeholders and manage second line processes to ensure privacy & law enforcement, regulatory conduct & reporting, new business & new products, customer complaints, consumer protection, customer conduct, product, product quality, data quality, and data privacy compliance on an ongoing basis in all business activities and in line with Group risk appetite.
• 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 the 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.
• Support the Group Director, CFCC in the development and implementation of the Group Government & Regulatory Relationship Program.
• Implement a process that identifies and manages potential Compliance risk from regulatory and geo-political changes and provides assurance that changes have been effectively embedded into the relevant Compliance business processes.
• Broaden internal and external networks and keep up to date with regulatory requirements and industry best practice to continuously improve the effectiveness of Group compliance risk management.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Master’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.
• Requires 12+ years of professional experience and 5+ years of management experience.

Critical Skills:

• No less than 9 years of compliance management experience, with significant portion in Compliance risk within a large international bank.
• 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
• Strategic and critical thinking and the ability to concisely convey complex regulatory concepts and possible solution sets.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Exercise high level of discretion and confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of the scope of work
• Extremely detail oriented with ability to elevate details into strategies.

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Responsibilities:

• Set-up internal second line of defense red team lab to enable targeted testing of the group’s environment as well as effective follow up of vulnerability remediations.
• Manage the external red team exercise ensuring that noted risks are remediated and tracked.
• Review and propose updates to cyber risk management and information security frameworks and policies on an annual basis at a minimum.
• Enforce implementation of the cyber risk management and information security framework ensuring that key gaps and risks noted are well discussed, actioned and escalated.
• Support is ensuring the architecting and creation of secure solutions for the cloud that adhere to industry best practices through detailed risk assessments.
• Support the evaluation of security controls against the IaaS and PaaS offerings provided.
• Support the creation and management of a new security risk management process to approve and authorize new capabilities and monitor the output of the process.
• As part of targeted risk assessments, review network architecture and artifact configurations (Firewalls, Routers, Switches, IDS, IPS) and give practical recommendations.
• Support first line IT units in coming up with baselines for implementation and in accordance with best practices these include baselines for secure coding, custom scripts and programs.
• Support in other reviews that might be allocated from time to time.
• Present findings with clarity to management and get buy-in for implementation of controls.
• Have the capability to mine forensic data for investigative and forensic if called upon.

Requirements:

• + 6 years relevant experience in penetration testing on expansive environments
• A tertiary degree in computer science, IT, Software Engineering, or relevant
• CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) is a must
• Additional certifications is an added advantage
• Demonstrated skills in penetration testing and ethical hacking

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Job Description: 

The Head of AML/CFT shall support the Group Director, CFCC by working with other Risk and the business leaders to manage the strategy and execution of the Group’s AML/CFT risk framework. The role supports the effective management of AML/CFT related risks in the Group and provide pro-active, accurate and timely advice on AML/CFT compliance to enable all subsidiaries operate in accordance with regulatory requirements, global best practice, and applicable Group standards. The role requires good knowledge of AML/CFT risk frameworks, the potential sources of AML/CFT risk and will work with other leaders in the first and second lines of defense to identify, assess, monitor, and address such activities. 

Responsibilities:

• Support the Group Director, CFCC to implement and maintain effective Group AML/CFT risk framework and provide strategic direction in how it is managed.
• Work with the Head of CFCC Risk Assessment, Governance & Testing, as well as other relevant Group stakeholders, to the identify, control, and assess AML/CFT risk in the Group.
• Deliver advice to stakeholders and manage CDD, transaction monitoring and other related second line processes to ensure that AML/CFT requirements are fully understood and met on an ongoing basis in all business activities and in line with Group risk appetite.
• Drive effectiveness of the Group AML/CFT Risk Framework by incorporating effective and practical advice into sound early-stage second line challenge.
• Support the rollout and implementation of effective AML/CFT training across the Group.
• Assist with the timely identification of opportunities to enhance the management and oversight of AML/CFT risk, and ensuring 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 sanctions risk are embedded into new products and initiatives that are developed within the Group.
• Implement a process that identifies and manages potential AML/CFT risk from regulatory and geo-political changes and provide assurance that changes have been effectively embedded relevant FCR business processes.
• Develop and implement strategies to broaden internal and external networks and keep up to date with regulatory requirements and industry best practice to continuously improve the effectiveness of Group AML/CFT risk management.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires 12+ years of professional experience and 5+ years of management experience.

Critical Skills

• No less than 9 years of compliance management experience, with significant portion in AML/CFT within a large international bank.
• Strong understanding of AML/CFT Compliance and requirements within the banking industry.
• Deep experience in leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage AML/CFT related 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.
• Strategic and critical thinking and the ability to concisely convey complex regulatory concepts and possible solution sets.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills.
• Exercise high level of discretion and confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of the scope of work.
• Extremely detail oriented with ability to elevate details into strategies.

Education

• Master’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA.

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Job Description:

The Head CFCC Training shall work with HR and the business leaders to identify and monitor AML/CFT, Sanctions and Conduct risk training needs. In addition, the role shall design, plan, prepare and implement bank-wide and tailored compliance, financial crime risk and conduct risk communication and training plans. The role requires good knowledge of Compliance, AML/CFT, Sanctions, ABC, Conduct risks and training.

Responsibilities:

• Support Group Director, CFCC in consulting with the business stakeholders and conducting Training Needs Analyses
• Take responsibility for the designing, planning, preparation and implementation of bank wide and tailored CFCC communication and training plans
• Assist in designing CFCC training modules, including learning objectives, measurable outcomes, content and instructional strategies and ensuring the modules are current, effective and accurate
• Work with relevant stakeholders in HR and CFCC to develop and test training materials, reference materials and job aids for training modules, while aligning them with Group policies
• Maintain knowledge of new methods and techniques for training, training requirements applicable to the Group and the relevant industries
• Conduct pilot sessions of CFCC modules and revise as appropriate and necessary
• Evaluate employees’ knowledge and skill development from CFCC modules and use that information to enhance and design future programs
• Align with stakeholders on learning delivery of relevant FCC related programs and manage any other projects that may be assigned- such as the preparation of lessons-learned documents from significant risk events
• Liaise with external parties to obtain external specialist training where required
• Produce MI and reports related to compliance, financial crime and conduct training and communication
• Responsible for ensuring the appropriate record-keeping for compliance, financial crime and conduct training sessions and communication
• Act as the Group’s subject matter expert in relation to compliance, financial crime and conduct training and communication
• Where necessary, collaborate with vendors and third-party training providers to arrange employee registration for and participation in outside training programs
• Prepare and implement training budget and ensure that training milestones and goals are met within approved training budget

Requirements:

• Master’s degree plus relevant professional qualifications such as CAMS, ICA
• Requires 10+ years of professional experience and 4+ years of management experience
• No less than 7 years of compliance training management experience, with significant portion within a large international bank
• Excellent verbal and written communication and training facilitation skills with strong graphic design ability
• Thorough understanding of training processes, ability to moderate large groups and extremely organized and detail oriented
• Good experience in digital training and leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage training
• 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
• Strategic and critical thinking and the ability to concisely convey complex regulatory concepts and possible solution sets
• Extremely detail oriented with ability to elevate details into strategies
• Ability to handle multiple requests, assess priorities, and achieve solutions under deadlines, with minimal direct supervision
• High degree of curiosity and creativity in a highly regulated, dynamic environment
• Ability to focus on outcomes while demonstrating flexibility to changing requirements
• Ability to work with partners at all levels, including internal and external legal counsels and consultants
• Poise and tact; Calm under pressure
• Occasional travel required

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Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research and thought leadership in Sustainability for the Group;
• Coordinating the development of the Sustainability strategy for the Group;
• Leading the development of sustainable products and services to be offered by Group;
• Providing advisory support on technical and emerging sustainability areas;
• Alignment and collaboration with the Group on the twin engine business model, Group Strategy and delivery of the Social and Environment Transformation Pillar (Pillar 5) of the Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan;
• Investor and key stakeholder relationship management focused on strategic partnerships, funding, group positioning and brand development, advocacy and policy;
• Leading the sustainability aspects of funding initiatives with the Strategy, Finance and Treasury teams.
• Representing the business at technical subject matter meetings and other external events;
• Contributing to the wider organizational ESG policy, procedures and tool development and implementation thereof.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill  

• Commercial and client oriented, with an ability to persuade and influence a wide range of people.
• Knowledge and experience with Financial Institutions, including supporting institutions in embedding Sustainability into their Strategy and the products and services offered
• Degree in Sustainability, Development Economics, Finance, or other comparable studies.
• Over 10 years of relevant working experience in sustainability.
• Strong team skills, contributing to team success and to a constructive, positive, and collaborative work environment.
• Ability to build productive lasting working relationships with clients and strategic partners.

Language

• Solid communication and writing skills (fluency in English is required). French is considered a strong advantage

Benefits and Contractual information:

• Permanent Contract
• Willing and able to relocate to Nairobi, Kenya
• Suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.