Manager – Project Management Office (PMO)

About the role

Equity Bank Kenya is looking for a Manager – Project Management Office (PMO) to coordinate the governance, planning, tracking and reporting of complex regulatory remediation and compliance transformation programmes. The role ensures that commitments to regulators are met on time, progress reporting is accurate and evidence-based, and that delays, risks and dependencies are escalated promptly, while accountability stays with the responsible owners.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain PMO methodologies, project charters, workstream responsibilities, governance forums and standard templates.
• Coordinate tracking of regulatory inspection findings, supervisory commitments, integrated remediation plans and owners.
• Maintain milestones, critical paths, dependencies, change control and risk, issue and action registers.
• Coordinate evidence collection, closure criteria and independent validation of remediation.
• Prepare SteerCo, ExCo and Board Risk Committee dashboards, decision logs and exception reports.
• Challenge unsupported status updates and coordinate across Technology, Business, Risk, Compliance and Group.
• Supervise PMO analysts and improve delivery discipline and project tools.

Required profile

• Minimum 7 years' experience in programme or project management, regulatory remediation, compliance, risk or internal audit within financial services.
• At least 3 years in a supervisory or management role.
• Demonstrated experience running PMO governance for regulatory remediation or transformation programmes.
• Proven experience preparing SteerCo, ExCo and Board reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Information Systems or a related field; Master's degree and professional certifications (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) are an added advantage.
• Prior experience in a Tier 1 bank and familiarity with CBK supervisory expectations is an added advantage.

Required skills

• Programme and project management, including planning, critical path and dependency management.
• RAID management, change control and governance forum support.
• Understanding of banking regulation, AML/CFT/CPF requirements and regulatory remediation.
• Executive dashboard, MI and Board paper preparation.
• Proficiency in project management tools and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Project).