Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 29 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Essential Information:
A Chief Risk Officer works to provide leadership, vision and direction for the country’s business risk management. A Chief Risk Officer also works to design effective response strategies to mitigate against multiple risks affecting the country’s business.

Job Duties:
• Establish an integrated risk management framework (ERM), risk parameters and metrics – losses and incidents, key risk exposures and early warning indicators for all aspects of risk across the Country office.
• Review business activities based on risk exposures, optimize the country’s risk portfolio through business activities and risk transfer strategies.
• Identify frails in business processes and operations, develop process-transformation plans to revamp business operations.
• Improve risk management readiness amongst staff through communication and trainings/awareness programs, risk-based performance measurement and incentives.
• Ensure adherence to the Group’s Risk management policies. Quantify the country risk appetite through establishment of specific risk limits.
• Identify emerging risks across the bank’s risk management portfolios, analyze and ensure high-level control interventions to manage emerging trends.
• Actively drive the improvement of risk management processes in line with global best practices.
• Escalate challenges to country’s Executive Management, the Board and GCRO.
• Identify key risk peculiar to the country; classify and communicate to all staff to avoid susceptibility among staff.

Skills:
• Ability to identify potential risks.
• Investigative skills.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Tenacious and solution-driven.
• High level of integrity.
• Organizational skills.
• Good leadership skills.

Job Requirements & Knowledge:
• Good knowledge of Risk Management practices.
• Extensive knowledge & application of credit analysis.
• Knowledge of the bank’s credit culture, policies and procedures.
• Good understanding of all business operations.
• Good knowledge of the policies and laws of the country’s Regulatory bodies.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Professional Certificate

Job application procedure
Qualified candidates meeting the above requirements must send a copy of their CV, a cover letter, and academic qualifications in one single document to careers.zambia@ubagroup.com before 10th July 2023.



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