Career Opportunities at Equity Bank Kenya

Description

Equity Bank is one of the Region’s leading banks whose purpose is to transform the lives and livelihoods of the people of Africa socially and economically by availing them modern and inclusive financial services that maximize their opportunities. With a strong footprint in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and DRC Congo, Equity Bank is now home to over 12 million customers - the largest customer base in Africa. Currently the Bank is seeking additional talent to serve in the role outlined below.

Senior Internal Auditor/ Data Analyst

Reporting to the Audit Manager, Continuous Audits, the role holder will be responsible for ensuring the Bank has effective financial, operational and information systems controls, adequate and effective risk management processes and ensure observance of good corporate governance practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure continuous audits are methodically planned for and executed as per the audit plan and emerging risks;
• Develop programs and work plans for evaluation of internal controls and ensure they meet audit standards and assignment objectives;
• Lead audit teams during continuous audits and in conduct of other adhoc reviews as assigned;
• Use the existing automated audit tools to identify new/emerging or existing risks , perform data analysis and/ or continuous audits to provide assurance that these risks are mitigated in a timely manner;
• Identify business risks and control weaknesses and recommend appropriate mitigation measures;
• Ensure audit issues are discussed with process owners and their action plans and target dates agreed on;
• Prepare timely and quality audit reports in line with auditing standards.
• Issue tracking and validation of audit issues to ensure they are addressed within agreed timelines;
• Perform trend analysis of the open or identified audit issues to guide on the key risks and areas of focus as well as reporting to senior management and the Board Audit Committee.

Qualifications

• Graduate in either business or IT related field;
• CPA (K) or ACCA and CISA;

 Desired Knowledge, Skills and Ability

• Minimum three years audit experience in a reputable audit firm or a commercial bank;
• Knowledge, experience and, preferably, qualifications in data analytics;
• Data analysis, interpretation and visualization skills;
• SQL database coding and scripting skills;
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills;
• Excellent report writing, oral communication skills;
• Working knowledge of ACL, Teammate and Finacle is preferred;
• Team player with good interpersonal skills;
• Able to work with minimum supervision;
• Good team leadership and supervision skills;
• Good knowledge of the banking industry and the regulatory framework; and
• Open minded with the ability to learn in a dynamic environment, possesses good commercial awareness and knowledge on international best practice standards in financial reporting (IFRS), IIA Standards and corporate governance

Closing date: 24 May 2022

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Job Purpose: 

The quality analyst will define project governance for project delivery and ensure project requirements capture business groups’ needs as well as technical teams’ specifications. He/she works closely with business analysts and project managers to ensure that project quality plan, quality control and quality metrics are achieved, ensure product compliance with risk, enterprise architecture, business process compliance and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

Program/Project Quality

• Define and establish quality acceptance criteria
• Ensure Program/project quality requirements are defined and communicated at initials stages of a project.
• Quality scoping; prioritization of quality based on risk, business process and compliance
• Ensure that the project plan highlights all milestones and identify all quality gates.
• Ensure a quality review is carried out at every project stage gate.
• Identification and recommendation of process improvement and opportunities within a project.
• Create and communicate comprehensive quality summary reports to stakeholders.

Business Requirements and Key Work products Quality.

• Comprehensive review of project/product/capability requirements
• Comprehensive review of identified key project work products
• Support requirement traceability process
• Communicate gaps identified
• Ensure identified issue closure.

Quality Assurance Alignment

• Identifying and implementing efficient quality assurance tools and techniques to be applied in the institution.
• Coordinate quality assurance trainings to stakeholders
• Quality Management  Tools -Champion tools utilisation among various department teams ; Enforce Tool usage among teams;  Prepare tool templates
• Support product test maturity by analysing metrics and sharing inferences
  • (Based on time provide for test vs time taken to conduct test vs scope of test vs efficiency of the test and effectiveness of the test results);
  • Risk based test Design -clear prioritisation of test based on identified risks & business requirement priority.
• Align quality practices with regulatory requirements, best practice and other international standards.
• Alignment of quality assurance practices to the overall organization strategy.

Essential Knowledge

• Excellent understanding Quality management systems.
• In-depth knowledge on Capability maturity.
• 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 s/his team.
• In-depth knowledge of policies and regulation frameworks.

Key Critical Competencies

• Business awareness
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills
• Excellent planning skills
• High personal standards and goal oriented
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing
• Strong coaching skills
• Culture sensitivity

Requirements:

• ITIL / CSQA / COBIT/TQM qualification to practitioner level or equivalent qualifications or experience (Preferred)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT Related field
• High level of competence with MS Office and MS Visio
• Banking Experience (Preferred)
• University degree or equivalent with a minimum of 5 years’ experience Quality assurance
• Proven ability to analyse complex business issues and identify, design and implement effective practical recommendations
• Able to operate in a performance driven organization
• Excellent written and spoken language skills

Closing date: 31 May 2022

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Job Purpose:

The Business Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyse, document and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders, gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need.

The Business Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions. The Business Analyst will also be proactive by exploring Emerging technologies to optimize business processes. The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements.

Majorly, the BA acts as bridge between specific Business Units /subsidiaries and IT Services, planning and coordinating operational activities by maximizing the value provided by systems to that particular business unit or Subsidiary. In addition, work with users to identify ways in which IT services can benefit their business, and define the detail of their requirement in terms of functionality and performance.

Strategy & Planning

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Maintain an understanding of business’ processes and their IT needs.
• Maintain an awareness of current and emerging technologies.
• Identify opportunities where business objectives can be met by using IT.
• Develop and manage relationships with business and subsidiary management and assist all levels within the business area to define their overall business requirements.
• Provide Business units/ Subsidiaries with advice, guidance and assistance in the identification, selection, testing, and analysis of IT Services’ capabilities.
• Work with users to define the details of their requirements, in terms of functionality and performance.
• Support introduction of new services
  • Documentation design
  • Training IT Services staff
  • Training users and Service Delivery Group
• Pro-active identification of value-adding IT business solutions for the business units he/she represents.
• Ensure business requests align with IT strategy and recommend IT solutions that will maximize influence and business processes improvements.
• Draw out business prioritisation process – assist in ‘making the case’ for funding and supporting stakeholder discussion leading to approval.
• Represent specific business user constituencies in developing SLAs ensuring that realistic but robust requirements are submitted.
• Produce systems development specifications in alignment with expressed business needs.
• Interact within IT Services structure facilitating the understanding of specific requirements and adequate packaging of service for represented Business/Subsidiaries.
• Monitor overall and Business Unit/Subsidiary specific operational service performance against SLAs within specific user constituencies.
• Monitor overall operational service performance against SLAs and trigger appropriate actions in case of breach.
• Monitor overall application and functionality build, ensuring requirements are implemented.
• Manage key stakeholders in IT and business community and ensure tight alignment of IT initiatives with the business objectives.
• Coordinate communication strategies with end-users and business community.
• Establish (with Business and Technical Solutions) the best technical approach to deliver cost-effective solutions satisfying the business requirements and needs.
• Monitor specific functionality build, ensuring requirements, budget and calendar are respected.
• Assist with service release acceptance and user testing.
• Voice concerns and/or satisfaction of the user community with IT service, effectively creating a continuous improvement circle.

Formal Qualifications:

• First degree in Business or ICT related Discipline; an MBA\CBAP is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of business modelling conventions and/or a mainstream software development framework (e.g. AGILE, CMMI) are an advantage.

Years of Experience:

• Minimum of 0 – 5 years IT Service Delivery experience or Minimum of 2 years Technical Account Management and Project Management experience for Financial Services ICT solution Provider

Closing date: 31 May 2022

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Description 

As a Project Officer, you will be responsible for providing administrative support to the project team. You will work closely with the Project Manager and the project team to achieve project success. You should be an effective planner, good at monitoring your work and resolving conflicts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide Administrative support to the project team.
• Organize regular project meetings, record minutes and allocate actions.
• Maintain crucial project documents ensuring timely updates.
• Be part of the team identifying issues or risks that affects project progress.
• Closely watch the project schedule, monitoring project task deadlines. Report any potential delays to the Project Manager.
• Work closely with the Project Manager in defining project scope and development of the Work Breakdown Structure to enable project scheduling and decision making.
• Prepare regular project reports to assist the Project team track project progress.
• Identify project issues and possible solutions and bring them to the Project Manager’s attention.
• Prepare regular reports to assist the Project Manager track project components progress in an effort to ensuring deadlines are being met.
• Maintain the project team’s compliance checklists.

Requirements:

• Work experience as a Project Officer/Administrator.
• Hands on experience with technical documentations and work schedules.
• Knowledge of Project Management Softwares – e.g Ms Project.
• Bsc in Information Technology.
• Professional Project Management qualifications is an added advantage.
• Problem-solving skills,
• Project scheduling skills.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member and independently,
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, trouble-shoot, and to meet short-and long-term deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent critical, creative thinking and analytical skills.
• Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
• Strong team working skills.
• Solid organizational and time management skills.
• Team Spirit.

Closing date: 31 May 2022

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Responsibilities

• Troubleshooting application related issues
• Leading troubleshooting sessions with the various teams
• Following up on the various support issues and reporting on the progress status
• Working with the support team to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Fixing bug related issues with the system
• Developing system manuals and guides to help the support team
• Working with the development team to resolve outstanding technical issues
• Developing automated tests for both the UI and APIs

Requirements

• Experience in developing APIS or applications using Java Spring Boot
• Experience developing web applications using Angular
• Experience working with API Gateways preferably Azure API Gateway
• Experience in developing and Consuming Restful API services in XML or Json
• Experience Integrating to third party services
• Experience working with version control system like git
• Experience leading a team
• Experience in writing automated tests and working with test automation tools.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
• At least 3 years' experience working as a technical support or Developer in a busy environment
• Java programming Language and Spring Boot Framework
• Web Application development in Angular
• Skilled and experienced in writing UI and API Automated tests
• Dev Ops or Agile practice
• Cloud Development and Deployment in Azure or any other related cloud provider
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL, Oracle database and Mongo DB

Closing date: 31 May 2022