Head of Control Analytics at Absa Bank Limited

Job Summary

To lead the design and execution of data-driven control analytics that enhance control effectiveness, risk identification, and decision-making across Absa Bank Kenya. The role enables proactive risk management by leveraging advanced analytics, dashboards, and trend analysis to identify emerging risks and improve the control environment.

• Embed proactive analytics into the execution and monitoring of operational risk policies and ERMF requirements.
• Work with business and CDO to offer Control analytics leads and track actions accordingly
• Steer trend analysis to identify emerging risks through requests from CDO data analysis.
• Develop and maintain control dashboards from analysis platforms.
• Ensure that all Significant Control and Material Issues are identified, tracked, and resolved efficiently using analytical approaches.
• Give insights to CDO to enable data-enabled root cause analysis to uncover systemic issues

Job Description

Key accountabilities/Deliverables/Outcomes

Control Analytics Strategy – 30%

• Develop and implement a Control analytics strategy for control monitoring and risk identification.
• Build and maintain advanced dashboards and analytics platforms to provide real-time insights into control performance.
• Use predictive analytics and request CDO for Data trend analysis to identify emerging risks and vulnerabilities.

Risk & Control Insights – 30%

• Provide Control Analytics driven insights to governance forums, senior management, and business units.
• Monitor Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and control metrics, ensuring alignment with audit and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct thematic reviews and deep dives using analytics to uncover systemic issues.

MI & Reporting – 20%

• Produce monthly and quarterly analytics reports for governance committees.
• Get involved in challenging control reporting dashboards
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy in all control-related reports.
• Support the embedding of analytics into Operational Risk Standards.

Stakeholder Engagement – 10%

• Partner with business units, Compliance, and Audit to align analytics outputs with strategic priorities.
• Influence decision-making through clear, actionable insights.

People & Capability Development – 10%

• Build and lead a high-performing analytics team.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement in data analytics practices.
• Drive training initiatives to enhance data literacy across the Controls function.

Key Deliverables

• Control dashboards and analytics platforms.
• Monthly governance analytics packs.
• Predictive risk models and trend analysis reports.
• Insights for audit readiness and thematic reviews.

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in (Commerce or equivalent qualification)

Preferred Experience      

• (8) years (Technical/Managerial) experience

Knowledge and Skills     

• Business Skills: Including Deliver Solutions and Decision Making
• Management & Leadership: Including People Development
• Personal & Interpersonal Skills: Including Communication & Influence and Collaboration
• Proven experience and application of risk management policies and detailed knowledge of current risk policies and regulatory changes impacting the financial sector
• Auditing/Assurance/Risk/Rigour and investigative skills under a risk-based methodology
• Understanding of key risks faced by banks and core control of environment
• Knowledge of the Bank’s governance requirements