Job Purpose:

The Role holder must have specialized skills in financial management assurance and responsible for conducting ongoing reviews and testing of the adequacy of the Bank controls, operating procedures, and compliance with policies and regulations and reporting to Management while proposing recommendations for improvement to achieve a robust control environment in Credit, Operations, Technology, Digital Banking, Branch networks, Retail and Corporate.

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage the internal controls annual work plan to achieve the overall ICU (Internal Control Unit) objectives.
• Plan and execute timely and quality standard and ad hoc reviews to identify control gaps and escalate them through the appropriate Governance.
• Design and perform controls based snap checks, reviews, revenue assurance and exception investigations across all the key processes in the Branch networks, Retail and Corporate.
• Liaise with the different stakeholders to analyse identified gaps and recommend effective remediation measures.
• Champion a healthy control culture across the Bank through training and awareness as well as advisory and guidance.
• Timely tracking to full closure the rectification of all audits (Internal and external) findings to prevent scenarios of repeat findings and overdue issues.
• Performance root cause analysis for non- fraud incidents and recommend and track remedial actions.

• Monitor the effective implementation of the internal control framework as per the approved compliance and internal control management framework across the network.
• Proactive identification of emerging or trending controls issues and recommendations for mitigants.
• Participate in revie of policies, procedures, service level, agreements, guideline and process flow for Branches.

Educational qualifications and work experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or any related field
• A master’s degree is an added advantage in any Business-Related field.
• Professional Certifications in risk management / audit
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Banking Operations, Compliance, Risk Management and stakeholder management