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ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Risk Management 

•   Ensure risk governance by:

1. ​Developing frameworks, policies and strategies.
2. Managing risk management technology and tools.
3. Establishing and maintaining risk committee oversight.
4. Manage ERM staff.
5. Manage liaison with various stakeholders.

•   Align risk, strategy and performance by:

1. Incorporating risk management into strategy.
2. Operationalize risk appetite.
3. Embed risk management in business processes.

•  Enhance risk culture by:

1. Fostering risk awareness.
2. assigning accountability and ownership.
3. developing enterprise-wide risk management skills.

•  Manage the ERM process effectively through identifying, assessing, responding, monitoring and reporting risks.
•  Provide guidance on the risk identification and completing the risk registers across the departments.
•   Aggregation of risks across the departments and reporting risk in an integrated manner.
•   Manage the automation of risk management activities.

Financial

• Prepares and manages budget for the department.
• Promote value creation and preservation by attainment of target by departments through application of risk management initiatives.

Resources and Assets

• Recommends the acquisition and disposal of assets.

Human

• Apply human resource policies and practices that ensure attraction, development and retention of talented staff.
• Ensure that employees are suitably qualified, experienced, motivated and rewarded.
• Discipline staff in accordance with set human resource policies and procedures.
• Mentors and coaches team.
• Entrench a culture of performance management within the department.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in risk management, finance, accounting, business or related field and relevant risk management training.
• Master’s degree in risk management would be an added advantage.
• Professional qualification and membership will be an added advantage.

Experience 

• Five (5) to eight (8) years of progressive experience in a risk management environment, preferably 2 to 3 years in a specialist role or equivalent in a bank.
• Understanding of the Bank’s products, services, and competitors’ product lines.

Knowledge and Skills required

• Business Analysis
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Data Analysis
• Financial Control
• Reporting and Interpretation
• Research methodologies and techniques
• Risk Management

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