Job Description

This role is individually accountable for setting policy and risk & compliance strategy aligned to overall East Africa group strategy. The individual is accountable for achieving results through Managers and their teams over periods of up to 2 years.

RISK AND COMPLIANCE

• Accountable for developing policy and risk & compliance strategy aligned to country strategy.
• Defines the risk profiles and agrees risk appetite with Exco.
• Provides guidance to Country Audit Risk Compliance Committee on overall leadership, vision and direction.
• Accountable for identifying risk across the business, monitoring management responses and tracking progress on managing risk.
• Recommends a country wide enterprise risk management framework for identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring and reporting all enterprise risks across the business.
• Promotes development of reporting structures to meet information requirements of the company's MD and Exco, for risk aggregation and concentration of country risk exposure.
• Provides oversight for risk management activities across the country, ensuring Group Risk Policy statements are met.
• Develops country policy, supporting guidance and procedures on risk management to be applied across the country.
• Provides challenges to risk management information received from reporting entities

Forensics

• Provide Administrative oversight over the East Africa Forensics team including quality of work and staff development
• Ensure Fraud Prevention and Detection Strategies are implemented across the

Group

• Review Critical Investigation reports for adequacy
• Ensure recommendations from forensics reports are implemented

Business Continuity Management

• Ensure the Group has an operational Business Continuity Plan and an adequate Business Continuity Management Program
• Ensure that the IT Function has set up a robust Disaster Recovery approach for critical systems and applications
• Coordination of the Group Crisis Management Team and ensuring that subsidiaries have set up effective crisis management teams
• Testing adequacy and effectiveness of the Business Continuity Strategies in place for business operations and technology

Skills

• Business Continuity Management (BCM), Business Risks, Compliance Strategies, Disaster Recovery (DR), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Identifying Risks, Risk Management