Manager, Business Continuity Planning & Compliance at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

The role holder will be responsible for ensuring that all technical components of the Business Continuity Plans are successfully tested at least quarterly, or whenever significant changes are made to those components. Coordinate IT disaster response/crisis management activities in compliance with the IT emergency plan and helps provide and coordinate disaster preparedness training, to ensure business continuity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists with developing and documenting tactical business continuity and IT disaster recovery plans and understand their interdependencies. 
• Implement IT risk management procedures, business continuity scenarios, and contingencies and advises on business continuity and disaster recovery plans. 
• Coordinates the implementation of IT disaster recovery test plans, testing, and documentation for each application. 
• Engages application and systems management in disaster recovery testing, objectives and auditing. 
• Performs on-going risk analysis of existing IT disaster recovery plans. 
• Assists with the execution of the business continuity and IT disaster recovery plan(s). 
• Manage the rehearsal program for testing the plans in accordance with the requirements, reporting on the outcome of such testing. 
• Provide management support and administration for the Bank’s Incident Management Team, including activating incident escalation processes and coordinating the response to the early stages of an incident.
• Ensuring IT DR plans are regularly tested with the participation of relevant stakeholders including external representatives and ensure accurate records are maintained for audit purposes.
• Work with the IT technical staff to ensure that disaster recovery solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• University degree from a recognized institution preferably in either Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Security, or a related IT field
• A professional certification in either of the following: CISA, CISSP, AMBCI, MBCI, ITIL, CBCP.
• 4 years Technology experience with at least 3 years’ experience in current business continuity and disaster recovery planning techniques and technologies, as well as the methods used in performing risk analyses and business impact analyses, with at least 2 years’ experience in Core IT applications and 1 year experience in Current recovery solutions, high availability architectures, Vendor Management and People Management/Managing teams.