Jobs at Equity Bank Limited

Primary 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.

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 ABC, Conduct risk and Ethics within a large international bank or corporation.
• 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
• 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.

Closing Date

May 19, 2022

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Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Ensuring business continuity by ensuring proper and regular back up of applications are done with support from System Administration team.
• Ensure all applications have up-to-date documentation (deployment architecture, connection matrix and system manuals and troubleshooting guides).
• Training of the application to the relevant support teams.
• Support Application by maintaining system availability and system uptime.
• Adhere to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes (Ticket assignment and resolution, Problem management to resolve root cause of repeat incidents, attend CAB meetings and verify all changes implemented are properly tested to minimise incidents related to changes).
• Ensure security of data and information within the Applications Systems (User access review and general application housekeeping).
• Support execution of the design, planning and implementation of company projects that promote business needs.
• Demonstrate sound technical judgement, communication skills and talented development capabilities.
• To be Efficient and effective in issue resolutions.
• To maintain the Culture Brand of the organization and customer service.
• Contribute to business growth and sales of the organization.
• Recommend review of existing business applications to ensure they can adapt to the changing business environment.
• Provide timely and accurate reports for the application.
• Engage vendor on a regular basis to troubleshoot, resolve and close issues and have vendor review.

Essential Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of Information Technology policies and procedures. Excellent knowledge of local IT standards, laws and regulations.
• Expert knowledge; exhibits an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness. Leads the development of highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts. Guides and transfers knowledge to the team.

Key Critical Competencies

• Basic Enterprise IT skills.
• Strong technical and analytical skills.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• Business awareness.
• Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing.
• Excellent Teamwork/Interpersonal skills.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent.
• Experience in application system administration skills and certifications for example: linux, oracle, ITIL,Weblogic,websphere, Java ,sql, Window Powershell , C++ and other related certifications.
• Solid experience in problem analysis and resolution of software problems, proven ability to function in a self –directed environment.
• Experienced in project management and running multiple projects.
• Innovative thinker who is positive, proactive, and readily embraces change.
• Able to operate in a performance driven organization.
• Culturally aware and adept at working across multiple geographies.
• An ability to work in tight deadlines and within constraints.
• Prior experience in clearing, branch operations, trade finance, credit, customizations, reports, international money transfers, clearing, etc.

Closing Date

May 18, 2022

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Primary Responsibilities  

• Support the Group Director, CFCC to implement and maintain effective Group Sanctions risk framework and provide strategic direction in how they are managed.
• Work with the Director, Compliance Risk Assessment, Governance & Testing as well as other relevant Group stakeholders to identify, control and assess sanctions risk in the Group.
• Deliver advice to stakeholders and manage list management, name screening and transaction screening processes to ensure that Sanctions regulatory 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 Sanctions Risk Framework by incorporating effective and practical advice into sound early-stage second line challenge.
• Support the rollout and implementation of effective sanctions training across the Group.  
• Assist with the timely identification of opportunities to enhance the management and oversight of Sanctions risk, and ensuring appropriate action is taken by relevant parties to deliver improvements.
• Work with relevant stakeholders in the Group to ensure that, for new products and initiatives that are developed within the Group, the required controls to mitigate sanctions risk are in place.
• Implement a process that identifies and manages potential sanctions risk from regulatory and geo-political changes and provides assurance that changes have been effectively embedded in the list management and other relevant 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 sanctions risk management.

Qualifications

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 Sanctions within a large international bank.
• Strong understanding of Sanctions Compliance within the banking industry.
• Good experience in leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage Sanctions 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.

 Others

• 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 

Closing Date

May 19, 2022

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Primary 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.

Qualifications

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 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. 

Education

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