Jobs at Safaricom

Detailed Description

Reporting to the Head of Department – BI & Data Governance the position holder will define, implement and ensure adherence to the companywide Data Governance framework and policies across all domains to drive and improve data quality and integrity to support decision making and drive growth

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities aligned to best practice and international standards across all business domains e.g. DAMA, ARMA, DCAM
• Responsible for defining and driving governance to ensure implementation and adherence to data governance policies defined including big data platforms and cloud implementations.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets
• Identity and drive business use of data assets to stimulate growth through insights and analytics
• Define tools and methods to implement and drive adherence to data governance policies
• Proactively engage in new products design, system deployments, lines of business to ensure data governance is implemented at the core of all new initiatives
• Input into Group to drive global best practices on Data Governance across all group opcos and partner markets
• Ensure adherence to data privacy across all key data domains as defined by the company’s data privacy policy and in line the regulation
• Implement systems and process for Monitoring data quality process, identifying data quality issue patterns, applying remediation plans, implementation of data controls, and manage data quality remediation strategies.
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics (KQIs) and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements

 
QUALIFICATIONS
 
Job Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering, Maths, Science, etc.
• 5 - 8 years of experience in generating business insights, delivering data governance frameworks & policies and have good understanding of telecommunications business
• Technical Expertise in analytics and data governance platforms such as Oracle BI, Collibra, Ab Initio, Hadoop etc
• Analytics experience in one or more of these areas: campaign management, sales, product design, pricing, supply chain, network, customer care, etc.
• Good communication and presentation (oral and written) skills
• Experience in telecom, financial services or similar industries
• Hands-on experience in statistical modeling would be a plus. Statistical experience can include developing regression models, factor analysis, clustering, decision trees would be an added advantage

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Brief Posting Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager; Commercial Process Audit and Audit Operations, the position will be responsible for leading audit assignments, driving improvement of the business control environment and leading risk assessments for proactive identification, assurance and advisory.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan and execute audit assignments as per the approved audit plan.
• Lead audit assignments and provide supervisory guidance to teams assigned to specific audit assignments.
• Manage assignment level quality requirements in all audit work in conformance to Internal policies, standards (IPPF) and procedures for consistent quality audit results.
• Provide advisory support management on designing, implementing and enhancing business controls.
• Provide independent assurance in strategic projects and proactively recommend controls to mitigate risks.
• Follow up audit recommendations and validate the implementation of the closure actions.
• Provide support to Risk Management processes to ensure that business key risks are adequately assessed, mitigated and the assurance map appropriately updated.
• Provide timely and relevant reports on audit outcomes to support management and the Board on risk assurance and mitigation decisions. 

 
QUALIFICATIONS

• Upper second class degree in a Technical or Business field from a recognized University
• Fully qualified accountant - CPA (K) or ACCA.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification will be an added advantage.
• 6-8 years working experience in internal and/or external audit.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with all levels of management.
• Proven ability to lead audits and manage an audit team.
• Excellent reporting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to self-start and effectively manage multiple assignments.
• Experience in the use of data analysis tools such as IDEA, ACL.
• High level knowledge of MS Office applications.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Participation in the overall development and delivery of the audit plan
• Plan, execute and document security related audits within the IT and telecoms network environments and recommend improvement opportunities to remediate identified vulnerabilities.
• Ensure audit objectives, audit procedures and test results are documented in a manner consistent with the Safaricom Internal Audit methodology.
• Discuss audit findings with key stakeholders and prepare audit reports that include thematic issues and trends identified through the execution of IT/Cybersecurity audits
• Conduct IT audits to provide assurance on the adequacy of controls to mitigate and/or manage the technology risk to acceptable levels
• Track remediation of issues arising from audits and work with stakeholders to avoid overdue audit actions
• Serve as an on-going subject matter expert in the area of information security controls and technologies
• Build trusted relationships within the Technology security community and act as a business partner
• Delivery of continuous information security assessments and penetration testing.
• Review security control frameworks/guidelines to ensure consistent application of security controls
• Review procedures for investigating and closure of technology security incidents in line with industry best practices
• Keep abreast with the latest technology security trends and provide input to mitigate emerging threats

 
QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Information Systems (or related technical / business field) from a recognized university.
• 5-7 years working experience in information systems audit and cyber security assurance
• Holder of an IT/cyber certification such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), CISSP, CISM or other information security certification and experience working with information security frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST 800-171, Cyber Essentials / DCPP.
• Experience in performing application and infrastructure penetration tests, as well as physical security reviews and social engineering tests
• Strong working knowledge of security principles, techniques and technologies with a good understanding of network protocols, design and operations
• Knowledge of common IT and networking technologies (operating systems, relational databases, network/mobile technologies) including Oracle or MS SQL databases, Unix / Linux / Windows etc.
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or equivalent would be an advantage
• Ability to evaluate risks, articulate issues, develop consensus, raise awareness and recommend practical solutions
• Strong relationship, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to initiate and build effective stakeholder relationships
• The ability to work under pressure and be resilient and tenacious to get results