Several strategic career opportunities are currently open in Nairobi across product development, data governance, risk and sustainability, audit analytics, actuarial valuation, and corporate claims leadership. These positions are suited for experienced professionals seeking to contribute to institutional growth, operational excellence, digital transformation, and robust governance frameworks within the financial services landscape.
This advertisement provides a comprehensive overview of the following roles:
- Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales (Ref: JR-76867)
- Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer (Ref: JR-76859)
- Internal Auditor – Data Analytics (Ref: JR-76864)
- Actuarial Valuation Specialist, Life (Ref: JR-76845)
- Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits (Ref: JR-76696)
All roles are based in Nairobi.
Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales
Reference: JR-76867
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving innovation, product development, commercialization, and digital sales growth within transactional banking. The role focuses on identifying emerging market opportunities, designing customer-centric financial solutions, optimizing digital channels, and enhancing revenue performance through data-driven product ideation and execution.
This position plays a central role in aligning transactional banking offerings with digital transformation strategies, competitive market positioning, and sustainable revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Innovation
The role holder will develop and implement a transactional banking product roadmap aligned with institutional strategy and market demand. This includes leading ideation sessions, identifying product gaps, conceptualizing innovative digital banking solutions, and translating ideas into viable commercial offerings.
The manager will continuously evaluate emerging fintech trends, customer behavior analytics, regulatory developments, and competitive intelligence to drive product differentiation and value proposition enhancement.
Digital Sales Growth
The role is responsible for strengthening digital sales pipelines through optimized digital acquisition strategies, campaign execution, and channel performance monitoring. This includes enhancing mobile banking, internet banking, API integrations, agency channels, and partnership ecosystems.
The role holder will collaborate with marketing, technology, operations, and risk teams to design scalable and compliant digital sales initiatives.
Commercialization and Performance Management
The Product and Ideation Manager will oversee product pricing strategies, profitability analysis, revenue tracking, and lifecycle management. This includes monitoring product performance metrics, analyzing usage data, and implementing continuous improvement frameworks to maximize adoption and cross-selling opportunities.
Stakeholder Collaboration
The position requires cross-functional engagement with IT, compliance, risk management, operations, finance, and sales teams to ensure smooth product rollout, system integration, regulatory alignment, and operational readiness.
Risk and Compliance Oversight
The role holder will ensure that all transactional banking products and digital sales strategies adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and risk management frameworks. This includes conducting risk assessments, implementing controls, and maintaining governance standards in product design.
Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer
Reference: JR-76859
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer is responsible for strengthening data governance, enterprise risk management integration, and sustainability reporting frameworks. The role ensures that the institution’s data infrastructure supports strategic decision-making, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) objectives.
This position contributes to embedding a culture of risk awareness and sustainability accountability across business functions.
Key Responsibilities
Data Governance and Quality Assurance
The officer will develop and implement data governance policies, data integrity controls, and standardized reporting frameworks. This includes managing data validation processes, improving data accuracy, and ensuring alignment with regulatory reporting standards.
Enterprise Risk Integration
The role supports enterprise risk management initiatives by analyzing operational, credit, market, liquidity, and compliance risks through data analytics and risk modeling techniques. The officer will assist in preparing risk dashboards, monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs), and supporting stress testing exercises.
Sustainability and ESG Reporting
The officer will coordinate sustainability reporting initiatives, monitor ESG metrics, and ensure compliance with sustainability disclosure frameworks. This includes supporting climate risk assessment, social impact measurement, and governance reporting structures.
Regulatory Compliance Support
The role holder will ensure adherence to regulatory data requirements and sustainability reporting obligations while working closely with compliance and internal audit teams to strengthen oversight mechanisms.
Analytics and Insights
The officer will transform raw data into actionable insights through structured reporting, dashboards, and management presentations that support executive decision-making.
Internal Auditor – Data Analytics
Reference: JR-76864
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Internal Auditor – Data Analytics is responsible for enhancing the internal audit function through advanced analytics, automation, and continuous auditing methodologies. The role leverages data science techniques to improve audit coverage, risk detection, and control effectiveness assessment.
This position strengthens assurance processes by integrating technology-driven audit tools and analytics platforms into the audit lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Data-Driven Audit Planning
The auditor will support risk-based audit planning by analyzing enterprise data to identify high-risk areas, anomalies, and control weaknesses.
Continuous Auditing and Monitoring
The role involves designing automated audit scripts, performing exception analysis, and developing dashboards that enable real-time monitoring of financial transactions, operational processes, and compliance adherence.
Fraud Detection and Forensic Analysis
The auditor will apply statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive analytics to detect irregular patterns, potential fraud indicators, and policy breaches.
Audit Reporting and Advisory
The role holder will prepare comprehensive audit reports, highlight control gaps, recommend remediation actions, and track implementation of corrective measures.
Collaboration and Systems Integration
The position requires working closely with IT, finance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure effective access to data systems and integration of analytics tools within the audit framework.
Actuarial Valuation Specialist, Life
Reference: JR-76845
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Actuarial Valuation Specialist – Life is responsible for conducting actuarial valuations, financial modeling, and reserve assessments within the life insurance portfolio. The role ensures the accuracy of liability calculations, solvency monitoring, capital adequacy analysis, and regulatory compliance under applicable insurance and actuarial standards.
The position plays a critical role in financial reporting, product pricing, and long-term risk sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
Actuarial Valuations and Reserving
The specialist will conduct statutory and internal actuarial valuations, calculate technical reserves, assess policy liabilities, and evaluate product profitability.
Financial Modeling and Projections
The role involves developing actuarial models for forecasting, embedded value calculations, scenario testing, and sensitivity analysis.
Solvency and Capital Adequacy
The specialist will support solvency assessments, risk-based capital calculations, and regulatory reporting requirements.
Product Pricing and Review
The role includes supporting product pricing initiatives through mortality analysis, lapse assumptions, expense modeling, and experience studies.
Regulatory and Reporting Compliance
The specialist will ensure compliance with actuarial standards, regulatory guidelines, and financial reporting frameworks.
Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits
Reference: JR-76696
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits is responsible for overseeing claims processing, benefits administration, and corporate client service delivery within the insurance function. The role ensures efficient claims adjudication, service excellence, and compliance with policy terms and regulatory requirements.
This position leads a team responsible for managing high-value corporate accounts and maintaining service level agreements.
Key Responsibilities
Claims Management and Adjudication
The team leader will supervise claims assessment, documentation verification, benefits computation, and settlement processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
Client Relationship Management
The role includes managing corporate client interactions, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring adherence to agreed service standards.
Process Optimization and Controls
The team leader will identify process improvement opportunities, strengthen internal controls, and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks.
Performance Management
The role involves coaching team members, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring productivity targets are achieved.
Reporting and Governance
The team leader will prepare claims performance reports, monitor loss ratios, and support risk mitigation initiatives.
Application Information
All positions are based in Nairobi and offer an opportunity to contribute to strategic growth, digital transformation, governance strengthening, and operational excellence within the financial services sector.
Qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications through the designated online recruitment portal, quoting the relevant reference number.
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The financial services sector in Kenya continues to experience rapid transformation driven by digital innovation, regulatory reforms, risk management evolution, data analytics integration, and customer-centric product development. Institutions operating within banking, microfinance, insurance, and financial technology ecosystems are strengthening their leadership capacity and technical expertise to remain competitive, compliant, and responsive to dynamic market demands.
Several strategic career opportunities are currently open in Nairobi across product development, data governance, risk and sustainability, audit analytics, actuarial valuation, and corporate claims leadership. These positions are suited for experienced professionals seeking to contribute to institutional growth, operational excellence, digital transformation, and robust governance frameworks within the financial services landscape.
This advertisement provides a comprehensive overview of the following roles:
- Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales (Ref: JR-76867)
- Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer (Ref: JR-76859)
- Internal Auditor – Data Analytics (Ref: JR-76864)
- Actuarial Valuation Specialist, Life (Ref: JR-76845)
- Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits (Ref: JR-76696)
All roles are based in Nairobi.
Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales
Reference: JR-76867
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Product and Ideation Manager – Transactional Banking and Digital Sales is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving innovation, product development, commercialization, and digital sales growth within transactional banking. The role focuses on identifying emerging market opportunities, designing customer-centric financial solutions, optimizing digital channels, and enhancing revenue performance through data-driven product ideation and execution.
This position plays a central role in aligning transactional banking offerings with digital transformation strategies, competitive market positioning, and sustainable revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Innovation
The role holder will develop and implement a transactional banking product roadmap aligned with institutional strategy and market demand. This includes leading ideation sessions, identifying product gaps, conceptualizing innovative digital banking solutions, and translating ideas into viable commercial offerings.
The manager will continuously evaluate emerging fintech trends, customer behavior analytics, regulatory developments, and competitive intelligence to drive product differentiation and value proposition enhancement.
Digital Sales Growth
The role is responsible for strengthening digital sales pipelines through optimized digital acquisition strategies, campaign execution, and channel performance monitoring. This includes enhancing mobile banking, internet banking, API integrations, agency channels, and partnership ecosystems.
The role holder will collaborate with marketing, technology, operations, and risk teams to design scalable and compliant digital sales initiatives.
Commercialization and Performance Management
The Product and Ideation Manager will oversee product pricing strategies, profitability analysis, revenue tracking, and lifecycle management. This includes monitoring product performance metrics, analyzing usage data, and implementing continuous improvement frameworks to maximize adoption and cross-selling opportunities.
Stakeholder Collaboration
The position requires cross-functional engagement with IT, compliance, risk management, operations, finance, and sales teams to ensure smooth product rollout, system integration, regulatory alignment, and operational readiness.
Risk and Compliance Oversight
The role holder will ensure that all transactional banking products and digital sales strategies adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and risk management frameworks. This includes conducting risk assessments, implementing controls, and maintaining governance standards in product design.
Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer
Reference: JR-76859
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Data, Risk and Sustainability Officer is responsible for strengthening data governance, enterprise risk management integration, and sustainability reporting frameworks. The role ensures that the institution’s data infrastructure supports strategic decision-making, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) objectives.
This position contributes to embedding a culture of risk awareness and sustainability accountability across business functions.
Key Responsibilities
Data Governance and Quality Assurance
The officer will develop and implement data governance policies, data integrity controls, and standardized reporting frameworks. This includes managing data validation processes, improving data accuracy, and ensuring alignment with regulatory reporting standards.
Enterprise Risk Integration
The role supports enterprise risk management initiatives by analyzing operational, credit, market, liquidity, and compliance risks through data analytics and risk modeling techniques. The officer will assist in preparing risk dashboards, monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs), and supporting stress testing exercises.
Sustainability and ESG Reporting
The officer will coordinate sustainability reporting initiatives, monitor ESG metrics, and ensure compliance with sustainability disclosure frameworks. This includes supporting climate risk assessment, social impact measurement, and governance reporting structures.
Regulatory Compliance Support
The role holder will ensure adherence to regulatory data requirements and sustainability reporting obligations while working closely with compliance and internal audit teams to strengthen oversight mechanisms.
Analytics and Insights
The officer will transform raw data into actionable insights through structured reporting, dashboards, and management presentations that support executive decision-making.
Internal Auditor – Data Analytics
Reference: JR-76864
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Internal Auditor – Data Analytics is responsible for enhancing the internal audit function through advanced analytics, automation, and continuous auditing methodologies. The role leverages data science techniques to improve audit coverage, risk detection, and control effectiveness assessment.
This position strengthens assurance processes by integrating technology-driven audit tools and analytics platforms into the audit lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Data-Driven Audit Planning
The auditor will support risk-based audit planning by analyzing enterprise data to identify high-risk areas, anomalies, and control weaknesses.
Continuous Auditing and Monitoring
The role involves designing automated audit scripts, performing exception analysis, and developing dashboards that enable real-time monitoring of financial transactions, operational processes, and compliance adherence.
Fraud Detection and Forensic Analysis
The auditor will apply statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive analytics to detect irregular patterns, potential fraud indicators, and policy breaches.
Audit Reporting and Advisory
The role holder will prepare comprehensive audit reports, highlight control gaps, recommend remediation actions, and track implementation of corrective measures.
Collaboration and Systems Integration
The position requires working closely with IT, finance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure effective access to data systems and integration of analytics tools within the audit framework.
Actuarial Valuation Specialist, Life
Reference: JR-76845
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Actuarial Valuation Specialist – Life is responsible for conducting actuarial valuations, financial modeling, and reserve assessments within the life insurance portfolio. The role ensures the accuracy of liability calculations, solvency monitoring, capital adequacy analysis, and regulatory compliance under applicable insurance and actuarial standards.
The position plays a critical role in financial reporting, product pricing, and long-term risk sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
Actuarial Valuations and Reserving
The specialist will conduct statutory and internal actuarial valuations, calculate technical reserves, assess policy liabilities, and evaluate product profitability.
Financial Modeling and Projections
The role involves developing actuarial models for forecasting, embedded value calculations, scenario testing, and sensitivity analysis.
Solvency and Capital Adequacy
The specialist will support solvency assessments, risk-based capital calculations, and regulatory reporting requirements.
Product Pricing and Review
The role includes supporting product pricing initiatives through mortality analysis, lapse assumptions, expense modeling, and experience studies.
Regulatory and Reporting Compliance
The specialist will ensure compliance with actuarial standards, regulatory guidelines, and financial reporting frameworks.
Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits
Reference: JR-76696
Location: Nairobi
Role Overview
The Team Leader – Corporate Claims and Benefits is responsible for overseeing claims processing, benefits administration, and corporate client service delivery within the insurance function. The role ensures efficient claims adjudication, service excellence, and compliance with policy terms and regulatory requirements.
This position leads a team responsible for managing high-value corporate accounts and maintaining service level agreements.
Key Responsibilities
Claims Management and Adjudication
The team leader will supervise claims assessment, documentation verification, benefits computation, and settlement processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
Client Relationship Management
The role includes managing corporate client interactions, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring adherence to agreed service standards.
Process Optimization and Controls
The team leader will identify process improvement opportunities, strengthen internal controls, and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks.
Performance Management
The role involves coaching team members, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring productivity targets are achieved.
Reporting and Governance
The team leader will prepare claims performance reports, monitor loss ratios, and support risk mitigation initiatives.
Application Information
All positions are based in Nairobi and offer an opportunity to contribute to strategic growth, digital transformation, governance strengthening, and operational excellence within the financial services sector.
Qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications through the designated online recruitment portal, quoting the relevant reference number.
