Senior Manager Strategy at Family Bank Ltd

About the job

Are you a go getter, positive minded individual who fits the role profile captured below? There is an opportunity for ambitious, self-driven individuals to fill the above position.

REPORTING TO: CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

Job Purpose: Responsible for assisting the Bank in its strategy development and transformation process as well as monitoring and supporting strategy implementation including but not limited to efficient coordination of initiatives across the bank and performance management of implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaising with various stakeholders and work streams and ensuring execution of deliverables in line with agreed roadmap for the 5 years’ strategic implementation activities
• Understanding critical dependencies across initiatives and mobilizing relevant process owners
• Translating initiatives, work streams and milestones into project plans which ensures successful project completion
• Assisting in setting target metrics / KPIs for work streams and tracking targets set
• Monitoring and tracking of initiatives and reporting deviations and suggesting remedial actions
• Assisting in review of Business plans for initiatives prior to senior management sign off
• Coordinating with external consultants engaged in the strategy formulation / implementation
• Bank-wide communication of weekly/monthly developments on 5-year strategic plan
• Communicating project information to stakeholders and other interested parties
• Preparation of periodic reports for various governance forums on progress of transformation
• In liaison with the Line Manager, developing, maintaining, monitoring and updating a tracker showing progress on execution of deliverables in line with the 5-year strategic implementation activities and escalating notable deviations.
• Monitoring and tracking of initiatives, facilitating initiative approvals at various stages, reporting deviations and suggesting remedial actions.
• Identifying, analyzing and preparing mitigation tactics for risk (Signaling blocking points and flagging these timely to CFO)
• Identifying and managing anticipated resistance including keeping track of any changes
• to cadence and correcting if need be to keep discipline
• Supporting the periodic reviews of the 3 – 5-year strategic plan and continuous reporting of the progress to the various identified governance forums
• Ensuring that all new business is in line with KYC and AML/CTF laws and regulations and customer information is regularly updated.
• Any other official duty that may be allocated by management from time to time.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or its equivalent from a recognized institution. Master’s degree in Business Administration or its equivalent from a recognized institution will be an added advantage
• Project Management (Desirable)
• A minimum of 7 years overall banking experience 3 of which should have been at managerial level.
• Ability to project manage complex and multifaceted strategic projects
• Ability to understand and translate strategy into action
• Effective communicator
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Good relationship management skills
• Good interpretation and decision making ability
• Good people management skill
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to work independently/self-driven
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other project management applications is desirable
• Strong planning, coordination and time management skills.

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Ability to understand and translate strategy into action
• Ability to project and manage complex multifaceted strategic projects
• Advance proficiency and experience in use of excel including modelling
• Knowledge and experience in project management
• Effective communicator & good relationship management skills
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Good interpretation and decision making ability
• Good people management skills
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to work independently/self-driven
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other project management applications