Location: Fina Bank Rwanda
Reporting to: Managing Director
Deadline: 15th October 2011
Job Summary
The jobholder will be responsible to ensure safety and soundness of the Bank, to safeguard the Bank, its customer and managing all threats to the achievement of its business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
* Proactively providing risk management advice across the bank, proactively identifying emerging risks and advising Management and the Board on appropriate risk management options;
* Reporting on key risks, including agreeing mitigating controls and escalating other risks
* Overseeing risk reporting to the Board on risk management best practice;
* Conducting reviews of current or emerging high risk and high profile activities, particularly in new market segments. This includes not only providing risk advice on a range of deals but also reviewing the existing control
* Helping managers at all levels across the organisation ensure that risk management is embedded at an operational level within the business and that staff at all levels are aware of and manage risk as a core part of their responsibilities;
* Providing early risk management advice to the Board and Management on new or unusual activities (e.g. expansion into new markets);
* Advising or training staff at all levels on core and on-going risk management issues (e.g. anti-fraud practices, the identification of ‘red flags’ and the importance of customer / supplier due diligence).
* Acting as the company Anti-Fraud Officer with involvement in sensitive fraud cases;
* Providing business continuity advice to Management and the Board, including acting as a member of the Crisis Management Team if required;
* Liaising with other external advisors on the control environment and tracking the implementation of recommendations;
* Building and motivating a small team of risk management advisors;
* Ad hoc risk advisory work as required from time to time.
* The role may require occasional local travel and be required to assist in major business continuity incidents out-of-hours.
Qualifications
* University degree in Finance, Accounting, Management, Business or equivalent experience required
* Proven track record working at a senior level in a complex, business environment. Prior risk advisory, legal, audit or corporate governance experience at a senior level is a requirement for the role;
* Proactive and self motivated with excellent communication and influencing skills, particularly at Board level;
* Ability to anticipate issues, identify solutions and provide clear guidance to the Board to enable it to meet its corporate governance obligations across the group;
* Demonstrable experience of building and motivating a team.
* Computer literacy (Word, Excel, Outlook, power Point)
Application
Please submit your application before 15th October 2011 at 4:00 pm
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