Phillip Banda, CSA-Fellow GAFM

Experience

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  United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

  Sept 2004 - Apr 2005

  Intern-Economic and Social Policy

  Attached to the Economic Policy Team and was involved in researching, reviewing and analyzing developments in economic and social conditions in the Southern African countries and writing reports on the findings

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  Finance Bank Zambia Ltd

  Nov 2005 - Feb 2007

  Retail Banking Officer

  The responsibilities in this role included:•Customer relationship management for existing customers•Support services which include customer service, accounts opening and cheque book maintenance and issuance•Cash; worked as a bank teller as well as cash custodian/officer•Inward and outward cheque clearing both at branch and Head Office levels including encoding and Electronic Clearing House processing•Foreign currency, international transfers and money markets•Compliance and branch accounts reconciliation•Credit scoring for retail clients Show less

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  Barclays Bank Zambia Plc

  Feb 2007 - Sept 2012

  Responsibilities:• Risk Management and Strategy;- Supporting the development and realization of the bank’s risk strategic agenda • Develop high level implementation plans / options for strategic initiatives with due consideration to the impact on structures, people, core processes and systems•Putting together the appropriate structure to support the risk management strategy at all levels within the bank• Identifying threats and vulnerabilities on the company’s IT establishments, through systems audits/risk assessment and implementing controls that reduce/mitigate these threats Show less Responsibilities:• Establish and manage relationships with stakeholders at senior levels, provide strategic advice on business continuity planning and solutions to senior management. • Establish and manage relationships with Business Unit Owners in undertaking their BCM role and responsibilities. • Provide direction, guidance and support to Business Continuity Co-ordinators in areas of deployment and maintenance of plans and solutions. • Build relationships with the business process owners, influencing at senior levels. • Impart knowledge and experience to effect the raising of business continuity awareness and to highlight potential threats or vulnerabilities. • Provide input in to proposed business recovery strategies, solutions and associated expenditure and cost allocations for the relevant business units including crisis management and business continuity related spend. • Promote a business continuity culture across the organisation and embed business continuity principles within business-as-usual processes. • Promote and facilitate Education and Awareness of BCM across the business. • Oversee and co-ordinate execution of all testing and validation exercises – as well as actual invocations.• Provide regular and timely reports to key business unit stakeholders, as well as other interested parties, on progress and potential issues with the business continuity plans and solutions. • Collate information in support of the operational and investment budgets necessary to support the business continuity plans and solutions. • Effect proactive preventative measures, acting to reduce risk or threat vulnerabilities, processes and infrastructure. • Highlight prospective weaknesses identified during course of day-to-day work with relevant management representatives, as appropriate and in consultation with Head of Business Continuity Management. Show less CORPORATE CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT - April 2008 to January 2009 (10 Months)Responsibilities:i) Assessing credit applications for various corporate customers and making recommendations for either approval or disapprovalii) Effective monitoring of credit breaches and Risk and Control Management Information for Corporate Credit iii) Effectively managing the control aspect of corporate credit portfolioAchievements:i) Developed a commercial working paper for Corporate Credit identifying risks and mitigating measures for the agriculture and mining sectors in Zambia in view of the global financial crisis in 2008ii) Analysed the impact of low commodity prices on the mining firms by analyzing production cost versus commodity prices on the London Metal Exchange and forecasting break-even prices for different mining companies operating in Zambia. This data was used to develop credit limit matrix for various mining clients for BarclaysCORPORATE BANKING - September 2007 to March 2008 (7 Months)Responsibilitiesi) Management and maintenance of existing Corporate customer portfolioii) Development and acquisition of new corporate customer relationships and growing of business volumesiii) Management and growth of specific credit portfolios as requirediv) Cross-selling of bank products and services and offering financial advice while delivering personalized servicesBANK OPERATIONS AND CONTROL - February 2007 to August 2007 (7 Months)Responsibilities:i) Retail Credit Risk Operationsii) Local and International bank transfers payments processing including electronic bankingiii) Implementation of Self Risk Control Assessments across the branch network and processing centresiv) Production of the risk matrices and management information v) Account Openning including Know Your Customer (KYC) Show less

  • Information Risk Manager

    Dec 2010 - Sept 2012

  • Business Continuity Relationship Manager

    Mar 2009 - Dec 2010

  • Barclays Africa Leadership Programme

    Feb 2007 - Feb 2009
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  Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA)

  Sept 2012 - now

  Responsibilities include: Enterprise Risk Management 1. Working with the businessin: -.Understanding and documenting business processes -Understanding and participating in corporate strategic plan development -Identifying, assessing and measuring risks -Developing risk management strategies -Developing, reviewing and implementing the risk management framework -Creating and maintaining a risk register to ensure that all identified risk factors are accounted for 2. Monitoring and reporting the performance of the identified process controls 3. Process for continuous improvement of the risk management frameworkBusiness Continuity Management -Implementing tactics and managing prioritised projects to accomplish Contingency Planning goals and strategies and consult with business units to produce, maintain and test recovery plans. - Coordinating the development and maintenance of crisis management, business continuity and technology recovery plans - Reviewing BCM policies and accompanying procedures to facilitate implementation -Coordinating, exercising and testing of developed plans and strategies against high risk scenarios -Training and coaching senior management, recovery teams, resumption teams about the respective business resumption roles and responsibilities. Logical Access Management -Designing and implementing logical access controls -Designing the logical access user matrix -Total oversight on operational processes Show less Designing and implementing, accurate and thorough Business Continuity strategies and integrate this work into enterprise-wide contingency Business Continuity Management.Responsibilities include: •Creating and facilitating education and awareness initiatives for the Business Continuity program.•Developing appropriate Business Continuity Management policies and accompanying procedures to facilitate implementation of an effective enterprise risk and business continuity program.•Facilitating the tests and exercises on the plans and strategies against high risk scenarios affecting Zambia Revenue Authority. •Training and coaching senior management, recovery teams, resumption teams, and the general employee population about respective business resumption roles and responsibilities. •Designing and maintaining self-assessments to maintain program competencies and identify deficiencies; and lead Business Continuity Management through internal audits, regulatory and compliance reviews. Show less

  • Assistant Director - Enterprise Risk Management

    Apr 2017 - now

  • Assistant Director-Corporate Business Continuity

    Sept 2012 - Mar 2017