Skills

  • good communication skills
    10
  • Problem Solving and decision making skills
    10
  • Delegation skills
    9
  • good listening skills
    9
  • Emotional Intelligence and stress tolerance
    8
  • Project Management
    10

Experience

Simon Peter Oluka

Education

Simon Peter Oluka

Education

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Develop, implement and manage policies and systems for the efficient operation and driving the company’s operating capabilities to meet the business goals
  • Provide leadership and mentoring for staff under supervision
  • Work and interact with various internal and external customer stakeholders
  • Develop and coordinate implementation of annual budget for the function
  • Spearheading action plans to steer the company’s future in a positive strategic direction
  • Driving the company’s operating capabilities to meet the business goals
  • Delegating responsibilities to ensure staff members grow as capable participants
  • Develop, implement and monitor initiatives for effective risk management in the line of business function
  • Provide leadership and mentoring for staff under supervision
  • Manage staff performance for effective delivery of business requirements
  • Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives towards effective business operations
  • Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the line supervisor

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Defining project objectives, project scope, roles & responsibilities.
  • Defining resource requirements and managing resource availability & allocation – both internal and third party throughout the project lifecycle
  • Outlining a budget based on requirements and tracking costs to deliver project on budget.
  • Preparing a detailed project plan to schedule key project milestones, work streams & activities
  • Monitoring and tracking project and providing regular reports on project status to project team and key stakeholders and ensuring all tasks, deliverables, and project materials are delivered promptly
  • Managing and adjusting for any changes in project scope, schedule and / or budget.
  • Identifying and mitigating potential risks.
  • Managing the relationship and communication with all stakeholders, ensuring the project is delivered to project plan and objectives
  • Participating in preparation of business case, project concepts and terms of reference for potential project
  • Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the line supervisor

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Performance of systems and network security assessments
  • Conduct IT security assessment for new IT
  • business applications and IT Infrastructure projects
  • Implementation of INCIDENT Management Framework.
  • Assist in conducting IT forensics (network & system) in
  • cases of frauds, etc.
  • Conducting monthly system and network availability
  • assessments
  • Assist in the review, enhancement and implementation of the
  • Bank’s Continuity (with compliance function) and IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) plans.
  • Participation in the Bank’s Business Continuity Management
  • (BCM) planning and testing.
  • Liaise with the Bank’s users (IT customers) on
  • performance issues and address with the IT team.
  • Review and ensure effective usage of IT Risk
  • Management Platforms
  • Conducting IT performance reviews for the IT business
  • applications and IT infrastructure systems being deployed.
  • Develop and implement an IT Risk Management Strategy and Framework, basing the IT Risk Management Strategy on
  • COBIT and /or RISK-IT.
  • Assist in implementation international best practices for
  • IT Risk Management.
  • Creation of relevant IT baselines for every IT aspect, i.e.
  • workstations, servers, databases, network devices, etc.
  • Help in implementation and monitoring of the
  • regulatory requirements and standards.
  • Ensure Compliance to IT policies and Procedures
  • Perform periodic review of IT policies and procedures
  • to improve on them considering current trends in IT etc.
  • Change management reviews and monitoring
  • Maintenance of the bank's IT Risk Register and track
  • closure of the incidents raised.
  • Reviews of IT Security and access controls
  • Review of Identity and Access Rights Management
  • process and ensuring compliance
  • IT Assets management and control monitoring

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Managed the non-technical arm (Human Resources, Operations, Administration and IT support functions) of the organization- Applied Principles Consulting.

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Conducted an IT Audit – The first of its kind in the institution.
  • Conducted a risk and compliance audit, the first of their kind in the institution.
  • Reviewed and approved managements weekly and monthly reports before final copies were forwarded to Bank of Uganda
  • Supervised the work of two audit officers

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Planned for all audit engagements (Credit, Operational, IT, Risk and Compliance, Human Resources, Legal). I conducted the first ever audit of the Legal Department which led to the discovery of the lost collateral, delayed mortgages, slow process of the perfection of the collaterals. It also led to the sale of the available properties which were committed as collateral by the borrowers whose loans had been written off.
  • Conducted an audit in one of the branches that led to the discovery a fraud of Over UGX 100M of the money was later recovered.
  • Executed all audit engagements with proper documentation of the working papers, audit evidence and filing.
  • Produced all drafted audit observations and forwarded them to
  • the senior Internal Auditor for review.
  • Participated in minor fraud investigations
  • Conducted the first IT audit in Finca in 2011. This led to the exposure of the gaps in the Information Systems and other applications.

Simon Peter Oluka

Work experience
  • Participated in user support on core banking system support and other IT applications
  • Because of the outstanding performance, the training contract of one year that I was given was terminated in just three and I was recommended by the CEO himself to be put on
  • permanent basis with immediate effect
  • Hardware and software installations and repairs
  • Trainer-of-Trainers for the point-of-sale application.
  • Roll out and support of PDA group loan tracking and Monitoring Devices

Simon Peter Oluka

Education

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