Risk & Compliance Officer Job Qona Sacco

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We currently seek to recruit a Risk and Compliance Officer. The job holder will be responsible for providing administrative support in the Society by exploring opportunities that add value to the existing processes and procedures.

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Key Responsibilities

• Review and maintain an updated Risk Policy and Framework for the Sacco.
• Maintain a corporate-wide and departmental risk registers.
• Based on review of procedures and walkthroughs, maintain an inventory of internal controls and map them to key risk areas.
• Assist in the execution of the corporate compliance, fraud, and risk assessments by identifying the key risks and assessing mitigating controls to determine the risk profile for the organization.
• Assist in the development and monitoring of key risk indicators (KRIs) that are mapped to various risks to determine elevations in risk and proactively implement risk mitigation measures.
• Identify emerging risks that present new regulatory, fraud, or money laundering risks. This includes risks associated with new products and services, customer types, geographies, and channels.
• Coordinate the collection of risk information from source systems, departments, and reporting, analyse the data and apply to various key risk areas to update the risk profile.
• Conduct policy attestations and provide assistance to in developing, updating policies and procedures by enforcing documented standards eg SOPs.
• Perform compliance audits (Internal and External) and ensure adherence to all internal operation and evaluate all procedures to maintain accuracy with all internal standards.
• Develop and maintain a complete and updated regulatory compliance universe.
• Provide guidance on emerging operational, legal and regulatory compliance matters.
• Champion compliance with respect to all environmental, social and governance processes.
• Assist and work in collaboration with Internal Audit to accomplish their assurance activities.
• Communicating and enforcing the AML/CFT compliance culture as per KYC/AML/CFT policies.

Qualifications

• A Degree in Risk Management/Commerce / Accounting/ Statistics /Economics or any other related field.
• At least completed CPA/ACCA part 2.
• Holder of CRMA/CRA will be an added advantage.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience.

Key Competence

• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work under minimum supervision
• Good work ethics and Integrity
• Knowledge on general project management.

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How to Apply:

Candidates who meet the minimum requirements to fill attached link https://forms.office.com/r/yYv04RL0q2 and send your application with a detailed curriculum vitae including three referees to careersa@qonasacco.com by 25th April 2025.

Due to the numerous numbers of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.