Back Office Internal Control Assistant Manager

Date: May 1, 2024

Location: Zamalek Branch (EGY52), Egypt

Company: AL AHLI BANK OF KUWAIT

Job Purpose

Review the back-office operations and process to improve and maintain the environment levels of control through utilizing the available bank ‘s tools

Key Accountabilities

• Conducting the required review to ensure that the back-office departments are abiding with the bank procedures and CBE instructions.

• Reviewing and checking the daily transaction documents for back-office departments on a random sample basis using the E-archiving system.

• Ensure the daily checking and monitoring the MIS, operational reports such as (saving over drawn, Frost El Omr, Online statement, exception report items, Debiting income accounts, Expired LGs & LCs …etc.)

• Enhance daily operations and control to minimize the mishandling and operational as well as increase the staff awareness of the bank procedures and assure of its implementation.

• Conducting a snap inspection visit to the departments based on annual plan to ensure that all operational activities are well controlled and to reduce lack of adherence with bank’s procedures by bank staff.

• Identify control gaps, frauds, unusual & unauthorized transactions in which loss could occur and report if existing control procedures not effectively manage the risk to an acceptable level.

• Discuss visit findings with Department Manager or his designee to identify the gabs& required adjustments.

• Ensure that the internal control reports are properly reviewed, exceptional& unusual cases are tracked and resolved /justified.

• Preparing & the scoring sheet after conducting the departments visits and send them to the Divisions Heads.

• Discuss departments visits results quarterly with the Back-Office Internal Control Head and Head of Internal Control, to highlight chronic issues, repeated comments, adjustments required to ensure that annual plan is successfully in progress.

• Prepare and enhance checklist to cover all chronic issues during the visits.

• Participating with audit department in EOY inventory checking.

Education Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Certification/Experience Experience

• At least 6 year‘s professional experience
• Audit/internal control initiatives / certification
• Banking sector experience

Competencies & Skills Developing Capabilities, Leading People, Managing Resources, Technical Expertise,