Pan-African bank scaling compliance and fraud detection across 7 countries
Equity Bank is a trillion-shilling regional lender operating across Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Ethiopia with 15+ million customers. The company is shifting infrastructure from legacy SAP/Excel toward ServiceNow GRC and digital fraud detection platforms while managing governance fragmentation across subsidiaries—a pattern visible in their hiring: operations and finance roles dominate (17 of 38 open positions), reflecting the scale of their regulatory and compliance build-out.
Notable leadership hires: Operations Lead, Loan Syndication Head
Equity Group Holdings is Kenya's largest bank by assets, deposits, and market capitalization, with a 1.1 trillion shilling balance sheet. The organization operates as a holding company with banking subsidiaries across seven African countries, plus investment banking, insurance, telecom, and fintech arms. Beyond branch and agent networks, the bank has embedded itself in digital channels and agent-merchant ecosystems (53,151 agents, 34,862 merchants). Core operational challenge: harmonizing governance, fraud detection, and compliance frameworks across legally distinct subsidiaries while managing credit policy adherence and delinquency risk.
Primary systems: SAP, MetricStream, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office suite. Currently adopting ServiceNow (GRC module) and DocuSign for workflow automation.
Nairobi, Kenya. Operations span Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Yes. 10 operations roles, 7 finance, and 5 data roles are open. Hiring concentrated in Kenya and Rwanda, with recent focus on governance framework and fraud detection capability-building.
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