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Head of Financial Crime/ MLRO at Equity Bank Kenya
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 2 days ago (3 Sep 2026) Deadline: 17 Sep 2026 Updated about 4 hours ago
How to Apply
Apply through Equity Bank Kenya’s Taleo portal.
Job Description
The Head of Financial Crime/MLRO is responsible for designing, overseeing and assuring the effectiveness of the bank’s AML/CFT/CPF framework. The role ensures regulatory compliance, conducts customer due diligence, reviews suspicious activity, and advises senior management and the board on financial crime risks.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree (BA/BSc/HND) – MBA/MSc/MA or professional certification preferred
- • Minimum 12–15 years experience in AML, compliance or financial crime risk management
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Lead and oversee the bank’s AML/CFT/CPF compliance programme
- • Ensure effective customer due diligence, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring
- • Review, investigate and escalate suspicious activities and file STRs promptly
- • Monitor the institution’s exposure to money‑laundering, terrorist‑financing and proliferation‑financing risks
- • Advise senior management and the Board on AML/CFT/CPF risks and regulatory developments
- • Act as primary liaison with regulators and external auditors
- • Develop and maintain AML policies, procedures and controls
- • Provide training and guidance to staff on AML compliance