Senior Manager, Strategy at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Support the development and periodic review of Group’s strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Group’s plan, financial objectives, risk appetite, macro-economic and regulatory environment.
• Lead strategic planning workshops across subsidiaries/business units working with finance business partners to translate strategic priorities into executable initiatives, confirm feasibility, expected value, and delivery requirements.
• Coordinate prioritization and consolidation of subsidiary and functional strategic initiatives into a coherent Group portfolio.
• Drive stakeholder engagement during strategic planning, and performance reviews to ensure buy-in, alignment and coordinated execution.
• Translate approved strategies initiatives into clear execution roadmaps, KPIs, and milestones, to track delivery across business units.
• Support in the creation of business cases for strategic initiatives, new products, investments, M&A, and partnerships, to justify the feasibility and value of the proposal.
• Monitor delivery and benefits realization, tracking value delivered vs planned and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare periodic strategy papers, dashboards, and presentations to provide insights, recommendations, and status updates of performance against the plan.
• Monitoring the market, customer, competitor, regulatory, and industry landscape to provide forward-looking insights to inform strategic choices and positioning.

MINIMUM POSTION REQUIREMENTS

The preferred candidate will meet the following minimum criteria:

• Hold a Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
• Professional qualifications in accounting (CPA) or financial analysis (CFA)
• A Master's degree in a business related field is an added advantage.
• A minimum of six years' relevant progressive managerial experience, including specific experience in the below areas:
  • Strategy, business finance or consulting
  • Strategic cycle planning
  • Business modelling and optimization
  • Quantitative analysis, conceptualization and presentations
  • Financial management
  • Stakeholder management of a diverse calibre
• Have a strongly curious and questioning nature
• Superior problem-solving skills
• Self-drive, resilience and commitment to excellence
• High level of agility and ability to learn new skills