Equity Bank is one of Kenya’s leading banks, providing a wide range of financial services to individuals, businesses, and institutions across East Africa. Known for its innovation and commitment to financial inclusion, the bank is currently hiring and offering opportunities for qualified professionals to join its growing team.
1. Manager, Legal Services
The role holder shall primarily be responsible for providing legal advice, guiding legal strategy and limit risk exposure to the department’s loan portfolio. Safeguard the Bank’s interests through robust legal case management and representation in all legal disputes. Effective and efficient management of potential and ongoing debt collection litigations filed for and against the Bank.
2. Payments Investigations Team Leader
The role of the Senior Manager Forensic Investigations is to provide strategic leadership, oversight, and coordination of forensic investigations within the Bank. The role is responsible for assigning investigations to staff, ensuring adherence to established investigation procedures, and directing and supervising investigative activities to ensure timely, thorough, and professional outcomes. The position entails administrative and managerial responsibility for planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring investigations.
3. Assistant Manager Operational Risk
The Assistant Manager, Operational Risk, is responsible for overseeing and strengthening the bank’s operational risk management framework. The role involves identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating risks arising from internal processes, people, systems, and external events. The incumbent will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices to safeguard the bank from financial and reputational losses.
4. Assistant Manager Fraud Risk
The Assistant Manager, Fraud Risk is responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating fraud risks within the organization. This role supports fraud prevention initiatives, investigations, and the implementation of fraud risk management frameworks to protect the organization from financial and reputational losses.
5. Governance and Regulatory Manager
Manager, Governance & Regulatory, is responsible for overseeing governance, regulatory compliance, and supporting company secretarial functions to ensure the organization adheres to all statutory and regulatory requirements.
6. Senior Tax accountant
The Senior Tax Accountant is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and filing tax returns for the bank while ensuring compliance with tax regulations. The role involves tax planning, analyzing financial records, and providing guidance on tax strategies to minimize liabilities and optimize financial efficiency.
7. Strategy Manager
As a Strategy Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for bridging the gap between stakeholders and the product implementation team. He/she will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs, analyze business processes, and create actionable deliverables that define system behavior, properties, and attributes.
8. Relationship Manager
Responsibilities: To manage the development of prudently risk assets, deposits, increase the customer base to ensure Bank`s maximum profitability; To identify and develop a target pipeline and aggressively market for new profitable status customers from the identified target sectors; Establish quality profit earning customer relationship within the target market …
9. Energy Environment and Climate Change Assistant Manager
Responsibilities: Identify opportunity areas that Equity Bank can leverage on to attain its energy, environmental and climate change goals; Support execution of projects undertaken between Social Impact department or Commercial with energy and environmental conservation partners …
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