Career Opportunities at Wema Bank Plc

Job Summary

• At Wema, our security architects works to design, build, test, and implement security systems within our IT network.
• They anticipate possible security risks, identify areas of weakness, and respond effectively to possible security breaches.

Job Description

• Planning, researching, and designing security architectures.
• Developing, reviewing, installation requirements for LANs, WANs, VPNs, routers, firewalls, and related network devices.
• Testing the final security system and updating and upgrading it as needed.
• Establishing disaster recovery procedures and conducting security breach drills.
• Remaining up to date with the latest security systems, standards, authentication protocols, and products.
• Reviewing current system security measures and recommending and implementing enhancements
• Conducting regular system tests and ensuring continuous monitoring of network security
• Developing project timelines for ongoing system upgrades
• Ensuring all personnel have access to the IT system limited by need and role
• Promptly responding to all security incidents and providing thorough post-event analyses

Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant certifications
  • CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
  • CISSP-ISSAP: Information Systems Security Architecture Professional.
  • CISM: Certified Information Security Manager.
  • CSSA: Certified SCADA Security Architect.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on security, performance and reliability
• Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorisation and security
• Good working knowledge of current IT risks and experience implementing security solutions.

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Job Summary

• Fraud analysts are responsible for monitoring bank accounts, accounting paperwork, and financial transactions. They analyze the data to identify any fraudulent and suspicious activities within the Bank.

Job Description

• Develop and maintain an up-to-date Fraud Rule Book comprising of regulatory and industry requirements.
• Conduct Fraud Risk Assessment in collaboration with the Operational Risk Management and Fraud Operations teams and develop measures to mitigate identified risks.
• Design and maintain a fraud loss and recovery database across Business groups and product/service lines.
• Keep abreast and maintain a collaborative relationship with regulators, peer industry players, Card Schemes, and Law Enforcement Agencies and fraud risk industry forums to help detect and mitigate fraud.
• Provide Fraud Risk Advisory services including developing Fraud Scenarios for new and existing products and services.
• Collaborate with Fraud Operations to develop to drive standardization, automation and process improvement initiatives, review application User Access Matrix for applicable fraud solutions.
• Review and ensure blacklisted profiles – Merchants, Cardholders - are updated and set fraud, Transaction and Merchant Categorization Limits in line with business risk and fraud appetite.
• Recommend changes to the process control environment or to business practices, where necessary, to reduce the level of fraud risk exposure to within the agreed appetite.
• Develop monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc fraud risk analytics reports.
• Monitor constantly customer and transactional records to identify unauthorized transactions and fraudulent accounts.
• Ensure confidentiality of all information collected during investigation.
• Determine existing fraud trends by analyzing accounts and transaction patterns.
• Identify system improvements to prevent fraudulent activities.
• Recommend anti-fraud processes for changing transaction patterns and trends.
• Act quickly and decisively when Fraud become apparent and ensure it is addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated appropriately to mitigate loss of fund.

Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience in related fields in the financial services sector
• Data Analytics and programming/scripting experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to interact with different stakeholders
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• Good organisational skills needed to manage a high volume of assigned cases
• Proficient with the Financial procedures and regulations
• Hands on experience with relevant Information System
• Honest and ethical with high levels of integrity and confidentiality

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Job Summary

• The primary responsibility of a security operations center (SOC) analyst is to ensure that the organization’s information assets are protected from compromise arising from unauthorized access (Confidentiality risk), unauthorized alteration of data/information (integrity risk) and denial of service (availability risk).
• As such, he/she ensures the protection of IT infrastructures of the organization whether on-premise (in the data center) or cloud based (e.g. Microsoft or Oracle cloud, Azure SaaS) as well as confidential customer/business data by having visibility on all vulnerabilities, threats and threat sources for effective mitigation and defense before occurrence of a breach.

Job Description

• Management of security incidents during all stages of the incident management process including an in-depth analysis
• Conduct security assessments regularly to identify vulnerabilities and performing risk analysis.
• Communicates alerts to clients regarding intrusions and compromises to their network infrastructure, applications, and operating systems.
• Implementing use cases and playbooks to mature the SOC SOAR capabilities.
• Generate reports for IT administrators, business managers, and security leaders.
• Understand and operate Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) tools to detect and respond to security events.
• Keep up to date with the latest security technological trends, threats, and control measures.
• Support, troubleshoot, configure, manage the SOC security tools such as the SIEM, DAM, FIEM, WAF and a wide variety of other security products.
• Liaise and respond and escalate to the SOC’s Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) as at when needed.

Job Requirements
Education:

• B.Sc Degree or its equivalent
• CompTIA Security+ (A/C)
• Comptia Security +
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• Other Cybersecurity professional qualifications

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years experience in same or relevant role within Cybersecurity
• Must be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge and understanding of IT security issues, the current legislation supporting these and the challenges facing the banking industry in managing the risks of cyber attacks
• Must have good knowledge and understanding of security tools such as SIEM/FIM/NAC/DAM/PAM

Analysis And Research:

• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to apply statistical and other research methods into systems issues and products as required

Initiative And Problem Solving:

• Must be able to demonstrate established fault diagnosis and troubleshooting skills enabling proactive information security issue resolution

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Job Summary

• Wema Bank is seeking an Investor relations analyst to join our investor relations team.
• The role will largely be focused on collaborating with and supporting the investor relations team in developing and executing the IR strategy, operating plans, budget, and global IR programme.
• The primary operating objective of the IR programme is to educate and update investors and security analysts about the company to achieve a fair relative stock price.

Job Description

• Support the collection and analysis of relative stock price movements, investors' and analysts' perceptions and opinions, and stock ownership
• Execute research and analysis required by the Head of Investor Relations
• Collaborate in executing the global investor relations program, including strategy (linked to the company’s strategy), operating plan, budget, and the detailed execution of the IR operating plan
• Support strategic (integrated) communication to include strategy and assure consistency of messages by all communicators
• Document the company's current and historic external and internal messages (for IR and Strategic Communication) and ensure that the current messages are distributed to all the company's communicators
• Collaborate with corporate communication and marketing on communication-and-media strategy, operating plan, key messages, integration and consistency of messages and efforts, product sharing, and support to operating employees for strategic communication
• Assist in preparing investor engagement materials
• Engage consistently with the buy side and sell side
• Execute the data collection, analysis, and creation of periodic feedback reports about the company's stock price, relative stock price, brokerage analysts' estimates and perceptions, oral perceptions and opinions from analysts and investors, industries and peer companies, and the stock market
• Assist with the selection of analysts and investors to be surveyed about their opinions and perceptions about the company
• Administrate the collection, analysis, and reporting of feedback from analysts, investors, and company leaders about their perceptions of the IR program
• Administrate the collection, analysis, and reporting of feedback from analysts, investors, journalists, and company leaders for their perceptions about Strategic Communication

Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience; experience working in the financial services sector will be an added advantage
• Outstanding financial analysis, oral and written communication, and presentation skills
• A clear and thorough understanding of the financial modelling techniques used by analysts to project operating and financial performance and the resulting value for its stock
• An understanding of the financial and investment markets and the ability to establish new relationships quickly
• Strong interpersonal skills, superior intellect, and an outstanding ability to communicate using these qualities and skills