Kenya Commercial Bank, renowned for its
diversity and growth in the Region is currently strengthening its support for
group operations and business with the aim of maintaining Best Practice whilst
also responding to the growing Business needs to support internal and external
Customer Service delivery objectives and increase shareholder value.
To this end the following challenging position has arisen and candidates with the requisite competencies and qualifications described below are hereby encouraged to apply.
Business Continuity & Strategic Risk Manager
Ref: RISK 04/2011
The Position
Reporting to the Head, Compliance Risk, the position will support coordination
of the Group’s BCM policies and practices to assist the Group understand its
Business Continuity vulnerabilities and to plan for the continuity of business
in the event of various impacts.To this end the following challenging position has arisen and candidates with the requisite competencies and qualifications described below are hereby encouraged to apply.
Business Continuity & Strategic Risk Manager
Ref: RISK 04/2011
The Position
The position will support the identification and evaluation of the whole portfolio of strategic and operational risks presenting the Group with risks to continuity of business, and will support assessment of the adequacy and development of policies, practices and implementation of decisions on how best to manage or treat the individual risks, in order to build resilience to potential threats and disruptions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Liaise
across the enterprise to guide on, collect and collate compliance risk
survey & assessment data to facilitate establishing of the individual
and organizational Business Continuity Impact Analysis (BIA) & Risk
and Vulnerability Assessments (RVA) to determine the extent that events or
set of circumstances will adversely affect the achievement of business and
operational objectives.
- Provide
effective liaison with Strategy and New business Division to achieve
visibility of Strategic Business Impact Analysis and Vulnerabilities.
- Support
development of necessary recommendations to assist the Business Continuity
Management Team develop, agree and implement agreed resilience and
response recommendations.
- Maintain
monitoring and tracking BAU capability through liaison with line
management, to provide reports on the status of implementation of business
continuity recommendations, highlighting gaps and problem areas.
- Supporting
and monitoring testing of Business Continuity plans to provide status
report and highlighting areas for further testing, or untested plans for
action.
- Assessing
incident reports from Bank units for Business Continuity risk
implications, and making recommendations for line management action.
- Monitor
and advise on the effectiveness and performance of compliance
responsibilities on Strategic & Business Continuity risk across Head
Office Support functions.
- Monitor
and report on Business Continuity standards and practices across the
Group.
- Provide
business continuity risk liaison at peer levels across specialist support
and risk functions. (Legal, Audit, Risk, HR, Finance, Forensic
investigations, and Insurance)
The Person
- A
first degree from a recognized university.
- An
MBA degree will be an added advantage At least one business continuity
risk-relevant professional qualification, MBCI, DRII-CFCP, BCS-ISEP, IRM,
and PRMIA etc will be a significant advantage.
- 4
years of wide ranging bank experience - 3 years management experience, in
combining operations, or compliance/audit related activities.
- Planning
& Project Management experience.
- A
good Know-how of bank-wide functions, administration and supervisory skills.
- Good
management skills including organizational, presentation &
communication, and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrated
high integrity.
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application with a detailed CV, stating your current position, remuneration level, e-mail address and telephone contacts quoting the job title/reference in the subject field to recruitment@kcb.co.ke.
To be considered your application must be received by 30th September 2011.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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