Equity Bank Rwanda

SENIOR OFFICER, COMPLIANCE

Purpose of the Job:

To support the Bank’s compliance risk management by identifying regulatory and policy gaps, assessing compliance risks across branches and business operations, monitoring corrective actions, and ensuring adherence to internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and changes to establish policy gaps and ensure full compliance.
• Scan the business operating environment to establish potential impact on the business objectives.
• Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities for business processes, associated data, and supporting capabilities to assist in assessing the risk.
• Collect information and review documentation to ensure that inherent risks are identified and evaluated and discuss mitigation actions with risk owners.
• Conduct compliance risk assessments in all branches and the head office to ensure the business complies with internal policy as well as regulatory requirements
• Assist in developing the branch compliance risk assessment toolkit
• Carries out compliance risk assessments (Branch and Agency banking) & enforcement as per the branch assessment plan for all branches and agrees on mitigation measures with risk owners and reports the findings.
• Keep tracking non-closed compliance gaps and always submit them to the Compliance Manager and compliance and to the Head of Compliance.
• Follow up on RCA controls not implemented within the timeline and include any non-compliance in the branch assessment report and share the report with the Head of Compliance on the…