Risk and Control Lead at Kennedia Consulting Limited (KCL)

Kennedia Consulting Limited (KCL) is a team of professionals with the goal of creating solutions and providing professional business and administrative services while creating value for all our shareholders.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Risk and Control Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• Lead the bank’s risk management and internal control framework by ensuring stronggovernance, policy compliance, control testing, issue remediation, and a sound riskculture.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain the enterprise risk and control framework.
• Identify, assess, and monitor strategic, operational, credit, market, and digitalrisks.
• Develop and update risk policies, procedures, and control standards across thebank.
• Maintain the risk register and ensure mitigation plans are executed.
• Design, implement, and monitor internal control systems to safeguard assets andensure data accuracy.
• Conduct risk assessments, RCSAs, KRIs monitoring, and control testing.
• Lead incident reporting, root cause analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Coordinate internal control reviews, audits, and regulatory examinations support.
• Monitor compliance to CBN guidelines, AML/CFT, KYC, and internal policies.
• Train teams on risk awareness and control ownership; strengthen risk culture.
• Produce periodic risk reports for management, regulators, and relevant committees.

Requirements

• BSc Degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk, Law, or related fields; professional certification isan advantage (e.g., ICAN/ACCA/CRM/CISA).
• 3 - 5 years experience in risk, internal control, audit, or compliance(banking/microfinance preferred).
• Strong understanding of control design/testing, governance, and regulatorycompliance.

Salary
N400,000 - N500,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
8th May, 2026.