Risk & Regulatory Compliance Manager - EIB

Role Overview

This leadership position owns the bank's risk and regulatory compliance programme across its investment banking activities, covering capital markets, corporate finance, advisory, and trading. On a day-to-day basis, you will work alongside deal teams and trading desks to assess new transactions, monitor risk limits, interpret new regulation, and prepare committee reporting. Your work directly protects the bank's regulatory licence, capital position, and market reputation while enabling the business to pursue growth within a clearly defined risk appetite.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the enterprise risk management framework for investment banking, including risk and control self-assessments, risk registers, key risk indicators, and scenario analyses that reflect market volatility, counterparty credit, and operational resilience.
• Assess risk for high-impact activities such as underwriting, proprietary trading, and structured products, monitoring exposures against the bank's risk appetite and escalating breaches with clear remediation plans.
• Oversee regulatory compliance for deal origination, equity and debt capital markets, and trading in equities and fixed income, including market abuse, insider dealing, conflicts of interest, client suitability, and best execution.
• Interpret changes in Kenyan and international regulations, coordinate regulatory reporting, and manage examinations and audits with authorities such as the Capital Markets Authority and Kenya Revenue Authority.
• Design and test controls including information barriers, trade surveillance, anti-money-laundering checks for cross-border deals, and other monitoring systems to detect misconduct.
• Support stress testing, capital adequacy (ICAAP), and recovery planning in line with Basel standards, and contribute to new product approval and transaction structuring from a risk perspective.
• Protect the bank's intellectual property, including trademarks, and support data protection policy implementation and breach management.
• Provide practical compliance advice to Front Office, Legal, Finance, and Operations, and build strong working relationships with regulators and industry peers.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, or a related discipline; professional qualifications such as CPA, CFA, FRM, or CAMS are an added advantage.
• Seven to ten years of experience in risk management and compliance within banking or financial services, with a significant portion in investment banking or capital markets.
• Strong working knowledge of Kenyan banking regulations, investment products, and capital market rules, including demonstrated experience with regulatory audits and risk assessments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical business guidance.
• Proven leadership and team management ability, including experience running risk or compliance teams and managing multiple priorities under pressure.
• High ethical standards, integrity, and a collaborative approach to working with senior stakeholders and front-office professionals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing board-level and executive-level reports.