Vacancies at Equity Bank Kenya

Purpose: 

Responsible for preparation and review of group financial reports in a timely manner in accordance with the regulatory requirements and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Scope: Financial reporting, audit support and project management. 

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate preparation and submission of daily group financial reports to management and insights into material movement in key parameters.
• Preparation of group monthly financial reports in accordance with IFRS, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Preparation of annual integrated and sustainability reports.
• Responsible for running and custodian of all IFRS models across the group.
• Take the lead in mergers, acquisition and amalgamation of new business.
• Conduct impact assessment of new standards and regulatory requirements on financial reporting.
• Liaise with the external auditor, internal auditors and market regulators in matters pertaining to audit and reporting.
• Take charge of cost optimization by leading finance processes: record to report and account to report.
• Any ad hoc tasks assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) majoring in accounting or equivalent degree.
• At least 7 years in Finance and Financial Reporting, preferably in a bank or in the financial services industry.
• Relevant Professional Qualifications e.g, CPA (K) or ACCA.
• MBA (added advantage).
• Experience in data analysis, financial consolidation, people and project management.
• In-depth knowledge of IFRSs.
• In-depth knowledge in central banks governing regulations across the subsidiaries.

go to method of application »

Job Purpose:  

Responsible for building and maintaining positive business relationships with existing and potential corporate customers, provide personalized and efficient customer service, marketing and selling bank’s products, identifying opportunities for business growth, and resolving customer complaints.

Key Responsibilities:

• 360 degrees understanding of client’s financial needs and all bank products and services.
• Regular client visits/presentations and meetings with visit reports
• Preparation of accounts plans for existing and newly onboarded customers.
• Coordination with various departments like credit, treasury etc. for delivery of seamless service to client
• Competitor and Industry analysis – Actively review and monitor competitor product offerings and monitor industry trends.
• Building positive relationships with clients by understanding customer’s needs and developing banking solutions
• Scanning the operating environment to identify business opportunities for the bank.
• Building positive relationships with customers by understanding customer’s needs and developing banking solutions
• Generating new business, upselling and cross selling to existing clients

Qualifications

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution 
• Master’s Degree is an added advantage.
•  Customer relationship Management Course
• 4-5 years’ working experience with proven networks among Corporate, SME and high net worth clients.
• In-depth knowledge of the banking industry, banking products, banking services and banking regulations. Sound working knowledge and understanding of general commercial regulations and practice

Key Competencies & Skills

• Excellent & effective communication and active listening skills
• Confidence and Presentation skills
•  Understanding and interest in financial / banking products and markets
• Ability to analyze and research information.
• Ability to explain complex information clearly and simply.
• Good sales and negotiation skills
•  Strong skills on Excel, Outlook & Word

go to method of application »

Job Purpose:    

This entails monitoring networks to detect any intrusion or hostile activities. It also involves taking measures such as carry out design, implementation, and administration of technical cybersecurity defenses for firewalling, segmentation, network intrusion detection, and prevention; network access monitoring and control, network vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc., to defend against malicious attacks on the systems. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Maintaining LAN, WLAN and architecture of the Network as per the business policy 
• Measure, analyze and implement new security protocols for greater efficiency against any threat or malfunctions 
• Generating and maintaining the virtual private network, firewalls, web protocols and email security decorum. 
• Reporting the security analysis of findings 
• Investigations of Network Security breach alert 
• Drive the implementation of Security standard for Network devices across the Group 
• Conduct periodic security reviews on the Network infrastructure and also reviewing connection matrix 
• Monitoring of web security gateways, perimeter security, network access controls, endpoint security

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience: 

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology (specifically security)
• 3-5 years’ experience in core network technologies of a telecom or Banking environment
• 3-5 years working experience in managing information security in a large organization
• Experience in designing and implementing organization wide information security Network architecture and framework
• Experience in managing and implementing large scale information security Network projects
• Advanced working understanding of the information technology and Networking environment of a Financial and Technology driven Organization 

Preferred certifications:  

• CISSP, CCNP, Network +, CISM, CGEIT or equivalent. 

go to method of application »

Description

Job Purpose and Focus Areas

• Reporting to the Head, Enterprise Information Security Architect, the role is primarily to enforce logical security at the various layers of the Bank’s IT infrastructure (network, database, application and operating system layer)
• Administration of users across all applications in the bank including Finacle and Active Directory.
• Management of user roles on the applications that support Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Provide password management support for users across multiple platforms.
• Periodic review of user login activities for inactive or unused user profile
• Provide input for security awareness based on identified risk in user management activities
• Ensure security of all Information entrusted to the staff

Key Responsibilities:

• Enforcing logical security at the various layers of the Bank’s IT infrastructure (network, database, application and operating system layer)
• Ensure IAM solution is functional and serving the business
• Management approval of user roles on the applications that support Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Provide password management support for users across multiple platforms.
• Periodic review of user login activities for inactive or unused user profile
• Provide input for security awareness based on identified risk in user management activities
• Ensure security of all Information entrusted to the staff
• Review of staff in sensitive units.
• Review of AD sensitive groups to identity excessive privilege
• Manage privilege account through the use of PAM and Azure PIM
• Manage MFA profiling using Cisco Duo MFA and Office 365 MFA portal

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of the Bank’s IT solutions
• Effective Communication and Presentation skills
• Good report writing skills
• Consistent feed on local and global fraud trends
• Ability to identify appropriate security controls to address existing/potential risk
• Good knowledge of Information Security best practices
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Tools

Qualifications:

• Certified information systems security professional (CISSP)
• CAP Certified Authorization Professional
• SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner
• Any certification on access and authorization
• Any Certification of Microsoft Cloud
• CompTIA Certification on Security

Reports:

• Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report of new access
• Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report of access violation
• Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report of staff role change
• Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report of new access removal
• Report on Prevent unauthorized access to systems and services
• Periodic Review of access to telecom assets for all Users
• Password Policy compliance monitoring and report
• Report Data for Root Cause analysis of detected incidents should be available

Tools:

• Azure AD PIM
• MS Cloud Apps
• IAM solution (been evaluated and will be implemented by December 2021)
• PAM (Thycotic Privilege Manager)
• Manage Engine ADPlus
• Microsoft Cecurity Center
• Microsoft EDR portal 

go to method of application »

Job Purpose: 

Reporting to the Head Cyber Defence Operations, the Application Security Analyst provides expertise to inform and validate the secure design and development of IT applications including changes to existing applications.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Ensure that application security is an embedded and critical part of the software delivery lifecycle (including during the early stages of projects) regardless of delivery methodology and tool sets used (e.g. static code analysis)
• Train and educate developers and teams in secure coding techniques including use of supporting toolsets and enable them to self service
• Perform application vulnerability assessments including regular scanning and penetration testing activities in terms of post deployment security testing on Web based, Mobile, Cloud application, Robotics, IOT etc
• Perform secure code review across a variety of programming languages
• Help tune Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and modify WAF policy to virtually patch applications where required
• Develop functional security testing scripts and procedures and identify opportunities to automate security testing and processes
• Identify inherent vulnerabilities and information security risks within systems and applications

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in IT/ Computer Science/ Telecommunications/ Engineering (Electrical or Electronic) or related field from a recognized university.
• Must possess at least one professional certification such as CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), LPT (Licensed Penetration Tester Master), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CompTIA PenTest+, CMWAPT (Certified Mobile & Web Application Penetration Tester).
• A minimum of 5 years’ supervisory experience in Information Technology; with at least:
• 3 years’ experience in Information Security.
• Preferably 2 years Banking Experience in Active Application Security Testing
• Good knowledge of Banking/ Financial Services Operations
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Excellent problem analysis and attention to detail.

Competency: 

• Web Application, Mobile, Cloud Application, Robotic Automation testing, IOT