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Head – Controls & Governance at KCB Bank Kenya

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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
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Posted 9 days ago (15 Sep 2026) Updated 7 days ago

Job Description

The Head of Controls & Governance will oversee reconciliation processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead risk‑mitigation initiatives across KCB Kenya and its subsidiaries.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline
  • • MBA, MSc or MA is desirable
  • • Proven ten years of experience in controls, governance or audit functions
  • • Strong knowledge of reconciliation processes and financial controls
  • • Experience with risk reporting and quality assurance

Required Skills

Responsibilities

  • • Monitor adherence to group standards for reconciliation of Nostro, asset and liability suspense accounts
  • • Ensure accuracy and integrity of accounts across KCB Kenya and subsidiaries
  • • Escalate and resolve outstanding items in reconciled accounts
  • • Oversee settlement account reconciliations against statements and ledger balances
  • • Lead automation and centralisation of reconciliation for new products
  • • Review compliance and improve operational efficiency
  • • Validate first‑level controls in operational processes
  • • Collaborate with Internal Audit to identify key risk parameters and address audit exceptions
  • • Manage quality‑assurance activities for the division
  • • Identify and mitigate risks arising from inadequate processes, people or systems
  • • Report risk issues to senior governance committees