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.
Regulatory Affairs & Policies Manager
Ref: RISK 05/2011
The Position
Reporting to the Head, Compliance & Ethics, the position will be
responsible for compliance oversight on development of policies, and will
ensure their maintenance and availability to align the Group activities to
Regulatory and industry standards by assessing emerging compliance issues and
providing policy planning and organization to ensure policies are adequate,
up-to-date and have adequate mechanisms for managing review, implementation and
performance.To this end the following challenging position has arisen and candidates with the requisite competencies and qualifications described below are hereby encouraged to apply.
Regulatory Affairs & Policies Manager
Ref: RISK 05/2011
The Position
Key Responsibilities:
- Support
Risk Division and Senior Management in reviewing and maintaining up to
date and adequate policy framework that is responsive to the regulatory
and internal compliance policy universe and strategic objectives.
- Maintain
liaison externally and internally to keep aware of emerging issues and
emerging trends to work with respective areas and provide expert advice
and guidance on national, regional and corporate policy initiatives.
- Support
liaison with external regulatory agencies, and maintain tracking and
reporting on action on emergent or reported issues.
- Support
the recognition, assessment and communication of important policy issues
to stakeholders.
- Analyze
rigour and incident reports to identify and report on key themes requiring
internal policy action, and report recommendations for adoption.
- Be
responsible to provide first line assessment and assurance of the
availability of adequate administrative and organizational tasks &
structures to support the effective application of policies.
- Provide
periodic assessment of the up to date status of policies, and maintain
policy tracking and monitoring to ensure policies are up to date.
- Work
with Bank units to guide policy development through the policy development
lifecycle to obtain relevant buy-in and Board or Senior Management
approval.
- Maintain
the Group policy catalogue and version control system to ensure easy
availability of tracked policies, and work with the Rigour Section to
support policy implementation.
- Provide
policy liaison at peer levels across specialist and risk functions.
(Legal, Audit, Risk, HR, Finance, including Forensic investigations and
Insurance)
The Person
- An
Arts first degree from a recognized university.
- An
MBA degree will be an added advantage.
- At
least one risk-relevant professional qualification, IRM, PRMIA, will be an
added advantage.
- 5
years of wide ranging bank experience - 3 years management experience, in
either operations, or compliance/audit related activities, with
demonstrated understanding of the regulatory environment including CBK
Prudential Guidelines.
- Good
knowledge of money laundering issues and KYC requirements.
- A
good know-how of bank-wide business functions, administration and supervisory
skills.
- Good
management skills including organizational, presentation &
communication, writing 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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