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Head – Controls & Governance at KCB Bank Kenya
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
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