Equity Bank Kenya
Banking / Financial Services
Careers at Equity Bank Kenya
About Equity Bank Kenya
- Industry Banking / Financial Services
- Founded1984
- Type Private
- Website
- Address9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 – 00200 Nairobi.
Equity Bank Limited (The “Bank”) is incorporated, registered under the Kenyan Companies Act Cap 486 and domiciled in Kenya. The address of the Bank’s registered office is 9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 – 00200 Nairobi. The Bank is licensed under the Kenya Banking Act (Chapter 488), and continues to offer retail banking, microfinance and related services.
The Bank has subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Tanzania. Its shares are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and Uganda Securities Exchange. Equity Bank was founded as Equity Building Society (EBS) in October 1984 and was originally a provider of mortgage financing for the majority of customers who fell into the low income population. The society’s logo, a modest house with a brown roof, resonates with its target market and their determination to make small but steady gains toward a better life, seeking security and advancement of their dreams.
Financial Crime Compliance Manager
- Job Type Full Time
- Experience6 years
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Purpose:
The role holder will be tasked to support Group Compliance, Financial Crime and Conduct Risk function by ensuring that the Group has an optimal, effective, efficient, and regulatory compliant financial crime risk management framework. The role will assist the team in ensuring that the Group is kept appraised of relevant changes in laws and regulations, emerging risks and potential gaps in managing and implementing international and local financial sanctions, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism and proliferation financing controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist the team to manage the financial crime risks across the Group.
- Support to ensure compliance with all relevant sanctions, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism and proliferation financing regulations and industry standards, implementing and maintaining robust program.
- Provide guidance on the enhancement of sanctions, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism and proliferation financing processes, frameworks, and investigative standards.
- Support to collaborate with other stakeholders, including subsidiaries, to maintain and improve transaction monitoring systems in line with business growth and regulatory changes.
- Analyse financial crime trends and data to anticipate emerging risks and implement proactive mitigation strategies.
Agribusiness Advisor
Job Type Full Time
Experience3 – 5 years
Location Nairobi
Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, mobilize, and conduct sensitization forums of target participants/clients, partners, and value chain actors (smallholder farmers and MSMEs), including youth and women
- Enroll the targeted participants/clients into the project/ Bank in accordance with the project-set target and timelines.
- Train the project beneficiaries in Financial Education, Agribusiness, and Good Agriculture Practices, Climate smart Agricultuire including, biodiversity conservation and environmental protection, and adopt technologies and mechanization and other agriculture assets
- Support farmers and other players in the food and agriculture value chain in implementing appropriate practices to increase productivity and improve their technical, financial and entrepreneurship skill.
- Introduce the project beneficiaries to Equity Bank for them to learn and access relevant financial services based on their financial needs and handhold them to access and utilize bank products and services.
- Organize and coordinate farmer groups on a regular basis to provide mentoring/coaching and track the implementation of the project interventions and increase their capacity to offtake or be ecosystems players through which smallholder farmers and MSMEs access financial products and agriculture markets
Relationship Officer Bancassurance (Coast Region)
Job Type Full Time
Experience1 year
Location Nairobi
Job Field Insurance
- Key Responsibilities:
- Receive claim notification from customers/Branches and advise the customer/branch on relevant claim requirements.
- Confirmation of cover existence, scope, premium payment, policy period, declarations etc.
- Ensuring immediate notification of the claim to the respective underwriters
- Guides the BO/policy holder on the required documents and the claim process.
- Receiving claim documents from branches/ customers.
- Scrutinizing the supporting documents to ensure completeness and accuracy of the same and forwarding to insurers if they are in order.
Business Efficiency Manager
Job Type Full Time
Experience5 years
Location Nairobi
Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
- Business Efficiency manager is specifically tasked with improving Turnaround Time (TAT) on loans and other products, plays a critical role in streamlining processes, enhancing operational workflows, and driving performance improvements within the SME banking.
- This role is focused on reducing delays, optimizing loan processing, and improving the overall efficiency of banking products and services offered to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Lead Technical Product Manager Cards ATMs and Switch
- Job Type Full Time
- Experience7 years
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field ICT / Computer
Role Summary:
- The lead technical product manager will be a key member of the ICT and Product team organization. The lead will be responsible for the technical success of cards ATMs and SWITCH products.
- The lead will be crucial in the formulation of the products strategy, product design, product development, and delivery of world-class card products that resonate with how our customers live their lives and accomplish their commercial operations.
- The lead will report to the Payments Director ICT. The role will be working closely with project managers, technical product managers, product owners, QAs, product analysts and solution architects as well as the larger ICT team from the bank.
- The role will be the key bridge between the internal technical team and cards, ATMs and SWITCH technology and service provider.
- The lead technical product manager will ensure ATMs, Cash Deposit machines, card management systems, card production systems / hardware and other related card support applications are implemented and supported adequately; in a manner that ensures the customer receives reliable service, their information is secured properly, and Service Level agreements of uptime and performance is attained and always maintained.
- The role also involves ensuring delivery of new initiatives and projects that cover any of the supported systems or related areas. The lead will develop in conjunction with business and product owners the roadmap for CARD, SWITCH and ATM products.
- They will work to make it easy for the bank to issue and accept cards. They will drive technical collaboration with external providers and 3rd parties such as Card Schemes, Technical Processor, and others to keep business running effectively.
Wealth Management Specialist
Job Type Full Time
Experience7 – 10 years
Location Nairobi
Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting Universal RMs Across the Branch Network
- Partner with Universal RMs to identify and develop wealth management opportunities within their client base.
- Act as a trusted resource for private wealth expertise, providing advisory support during client engagements.
- Build the capacity of Universal RMs through continuous training, workshops, and on-the-job coaching in private wealth management strategies.
- Client Advisory and Relationship Management
Regional Relationship Manager – Personal Banking (Nairobi West)
Job Type Full Time
Experience6 years
Location Nairobi
Job Field Banking
Job Purpose:
- Reporting to the Relationship Manager Business, the Regional Manager Personal Banking has the responsibility to coordinate all the personal banking business at the regional level to ensure the bank strategies, goals and objectives are achieved.
- The Regional manager will support the business to achieve its objectives on Loan Book Growth, Deposit Mobilization, Quality management, Staff productivity, Mentorship and Training of staff and implement the bank’s strategy at the regional level.
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