Reporting to the Lead, Group Treasury, the Manager Treasury Governance and Assurance, is responsible for providing independent treasury governance, assurance and financial validation across the Group.
The role acts as Treasury's governance and assurance centre of excellence and independent quality gate by reviewing, challenging and validating treasury information, liquidity analytics, cash flow forecasts, working capital reporting, treasury KPIs, Board and executive submissions, reports, governance processes and treasury controls before they are relied upon by the Lead, Group Treasury, Management, Board, Vodacom Group Treasury and other governance forums.
The role owns the Group Treasury governance framework, treasury control framework, treasury policy stewardship, governance calendars, risk and limit governance, audit readiness, documentation governance and treasury data governance. It ensures treasury activities operate within approved policies, risk appetite, delegated authorities, regulatory requirements and internal control standards.
The role acts as the treasury control tower, leveraging treasury management systems, automated control monitoring tools, data analytics, and AI-enabled risk reporting solutions to provide proactive oversight, enhance transparency, and support the organization’s transition to a digitally enabled and risk-intelligent treasury function.
Health and Safety
- Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
- All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
Treasury Governance & Policy Management
- Develop and maintain treasury governance frameworks and operating standards.
- Review and update treasury policies, procedures, and delegated authority frameworks.
- Ensure treasury activities are aligned with approved governance requirements.
- Monitor compliance with treasury mandates, limits, and delegated authorities.
- Establish treasury governance performance measures and reporting standards.
- Drive policy awareness and adoption across treasury teams and stakeholders.
- Support implementation of governance improvements arising from audits and reviews.
- Benchmark treasury governance practices against industry standards drive continuous enhancements arising from audits, regulatory reviews, control assessments and business changes.
- Coordinate governance and oversight of Safaricom Ethiopia treasury activities, including shareholder funding, intercompany funding, guarantees, funding support structures and compliance with Group Treasury standards.
- Govern treasury activities across other subsidiaries
Treasury Risk & Control Management
- Manage treasury operational risk and control framework, registers and remedial plans.
- Monitor compliance with liquidity, funding, investment, and market risk limits.
- Review treasury control design, operating effectiveness, segregation of duties and control evidence across end-to-end treasury processes.
- Coordinate periodic control self-assessments, risk reviews and follow-up of control weaknesses through closure.
- Monitor key risk indicators and emerging risks.
- Support treasury scenario analysis and stress testing exercises.
- Drive continuous improvement of treasury control environments and promote financial discipline, transparency, accountability and strong control ownership across treasury operations.
Treasury Assurance, Liquidity & Funding Governance
- Act as Treasury's independent quality gate by validating treasury analysis, reporting and governance submissions, challenging assumptions and recommending actions to strengthen accuracy, controls and decision making.
- Validate liquidity forecasts, cash flow models, funding requirements and working capital reporting.
- Review liquidity positions, headroom, cash buffers and funding capacity across the Group.
- Challenge forecasting assumptions, scenario analysis, stress testing and contingency funding plans.
- Validate investments, funding utilisation, debt maturity profiles, covenant compliance and refinancing risk reporting.
- Review Treasury KPIs, dashboards, Board papers, ExCo packs and Treasury Committee submissions.
- Govern facilities, guarantees, shareholder funding and related treasury registers and documentation.
Regulatory Compliance & Audit Assurance
- Monitor compliance with treasury policies, regulatory requirements and reporting obligations.
- Coordinate treasury responses to regulatory reviews and examinations.
- Manage treasury audit engagements and control testing activities.
- Track closure of audit findings and control remediation actions.
- Maintain evidence supporting treasury governance and compliance requirements.
- Monitor regulatory developments affecting treasury operations and coordinate implementation.
- Promote a culture of compliance and accountability across treasury teams.
Treasury Reporting & Oversight
- Develop and maintain treasury governance, risk and control reporting frameworks and dashboards.
- Prepare governance reporting for management, executive and governance forums.
- Monitor performance against governance and control standards and provide insights on emerging trends and issues.
- Escalate governance breaches and material control weaknesses.
- Support decision-making through risk and governance insights.
- Maintain transparency and visibility of treasury risk exposures.
Treasury Transformation & Digital Controls
- Drive automation of treasury controls and compliance monitoring activities.
- Support implementation of treasury management systems and governance tools.
- Leverage analytics to improve control effectiveness and risk visibility.
- Develop digital dashboards for treasury governance reporting.
- Promote standardized treasury processes across the Group.
- Support ERP and treasury system integration initiatives.
- Enhance data governance and data quality management practices.
- Identify opportunities for AI-enabled treasury risk monitoring.
- Drive continuous innovation and modernization within treasury governance.
Stakeholder & Governance Forum Management
- Serve as secretary and coordinator for treasury governance forums where required.
- Support preparation of committee papers and governance submissions.
- Engage internal stakeholders on treasury governance requirements.
- Coordinate with Risk, Internal Audit, Compliance, and Finance teams.
- Maintain relationships with regulators, auditors, and external partners.
- Support governance decision-making through quality analysis and recommendations.
- Facilitate risk and governance awareness sessions.
- Coordinate treasury governance reviews across subsidiaries.
- Promote alignment between treasury strategy, risk management, and governance objectives.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
Customer Obsession
- Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
- Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
- Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
- Simplify processes through digitalization and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
- Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
Purpose
- Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
- Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
- Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
- Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
- Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.
Innovation
- Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
- Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
- Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
- Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
- Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
Collaboration
- Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
- Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
- Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
- Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
- Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest Standard of integrity.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Risk Management, Business Administration, or related field.
- Professional qualification such as CPA(K), ACCA, CFA, FRM, CISA, ACT, or equivalent prefered.
- Minimum 5–7 years’ experience in treasury, financial controls, risk management, audit, compliance, or governance.
- Strong understanding of treasury operations, liquidity management, funding, and financial risk management.
- Experience designing and implementing governance, risk, and control frameworks.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements applicable to treasury and financial institutions.
- Experience with treasury management systems, ERP platforms, and governance reporting tools.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Advanced skills in data analytics, reporting, Power BI, and control automation technologies.
How to apply If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume
Safaricom is the leading technology company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 60 million customers connected across Kenya and Ethiopia, and play a critical role in the society, supporting over 1.13 million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 1.1 trillion ($ 8.5 billion) for the 12 months through March 2025.
Listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and with annual revenues of close to KES 388 billion as at March 2025, Safaricom provides connectivity through wide range of technology. Our 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G network in aggregate covers over 99% of Kenya’s population.
We run the world’s largest mobile payment system and Africa’s largest Fintech, M-PESA, the world’s first mobile money transfer system. By empowering millions of customers to transact, save or borrow money through their mobile phone, M-PESA has driven financial inclusion in Kenya to 84.8% of the adult population in 2024, from a low of 26.7% in 2006, and generated over KES 161 billion in revenue as at FY25.
Our subsidiary, Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia, has deployed world class network and services to contribute to Ethiopia’s digital transformation.
Safaricom is an equal opportunity employer, actively recruiting staff from different backgrounds reflecting the communities that we serve. We are committed to equal gender representation at all levels.
As part of our ongoing commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we continue to work towards improving energy and resource efficiency in our network and facilities to reduce carbon emissions and our fuel consumption. We remain committed to becoming a Net Zero carbon-emitting company by 2050.
