Jobs at KCB Bank Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing and maintaining KCB Group’s cybersecurity vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected and defended.
• Developing and enforcing cybersecurity policies, standards, and procedures to ensure proper operations and maintenance of Technology assets.
• Ensuring the properties of security, authenticity, accountability, non-repudiation and reliability of information and information processing systems are preserved.
• Promoting user awareness of good cybersecurity practices, current threats, and the Group’s cybersecurity policies & procedures among all Group employees, vendors, and customers.
• Incident Handler in the Group’s Cybersecurity Incident Response and Recovery Team (CIRRT).
• Identifying and assessing ICT risks in conjunction with other departments in Technology Division, Group control functions and lines of business to determine their materiality.
• Implementing appropriate transparency/escalation of all significant ICT risks as appropriate through regular reports to executive management, and priority notifications to ensure minimum exposure to ICT risk.
• Ensuring appropriate action plans and delivery dates are in place to address material risks and any open internal or external audit items or regulatory issues and tracking these actions to completion.
• Providing guidance within Technology Division on topics related to ICT risk management such as achieving compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and international standards in order to remain within the risk appetite of KCB Group.
• Implementing technical controls in support of the Group Data Privacy programs.
   

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• BSc. Information Technology / Computer Science / Telecommunications / Engineering or related field.
• At least one certification from the list below:
• CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
• CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor.
• CISM: Certified Information Security Manager.
• CCISO: Certified Chief Information Security Officer.
• 10 years progressive working experience with at least 8 years’ experience in:
• Information Security Management
• Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
• Security Architecture and Engineering
• Security Program Management and Operations.
• Experience in Communication and Network Security, Identity and Access Management, Software Development, Security Assessment and Testing.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 27th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Collects and compiles HR metrics and data from a variety of sources including the human resource information system (HRIS – Oracle Fusion) and payroll (PerPay), LMS (Percipio and KCB LearningHub), management, and employee surveys, exit interviews, employment records, competitors’ practices, and other sources.
• Analyzes data and statistics for trends and patterns with attention to HR Metrics of recruitment, hiring practices, motivation, turnover, and compliance with employment laws and regulations.
• Prepares reports of data results, presenting and explaining findings to senior leadership.
• Identifies and recommends reasonable short- and long-term goals, milestones, and benchmarks for key performance metrics.
• Based on metrics and analysis, makes recommendations for policies and activities to improve the organizational culture including suggestions to attract and hire qualified candidates, to motivate and retain employees, to address staffing issues, and to maintain legal compliance.
• Facilitates implementation of new training, development, recruiting, and other related initiatives.
• Ensures compliance with data privacy regulations and best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
   

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• Bachelor's degree in HR Management OR an IT related field
• Certificate /Diploma/ Higher Diploma in Post Graduate Diploma in HR General or a specific area of HR is desired.
• IT Certification (Oracle Certified Professional, ITIL, Project Management, Analytics) is desired.
• At least 3 years' relevant experience in a busy HR-IT or Data Analysis environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expert in SQL, Excel, Power BI.
• Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS (Oracle Fusion, LMS, payroll, and similar employee management software.
• Thorough understanding of laws involving employment, HR, and HR policies.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 20th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Implement best practice to maximize bank profitability through digital innovation and leveraging on existing bank technology platforms. 
• Drive Treasury revenue through working closely with the Corporate, Institutional & Investment Banking Divisions to coordinate Foreign Exchange Solutions. 
• Actively offer risk management solutions to clients. I.e., Spot Fx, Forwards and Swaps to Corporate and Institutional Banking clients. 
• Drive Segmented Sales & provide custom made solutions to specific clients §ors. • Telephone and physical customer calls to enable sales stimulation. 
• Organize and plan both prospective and courtesy calls to manage relationships. 
• Manage and ensure booking of forex transactions through the Bank’s core banking system. 
• To coordinate with other internal departments like Shared services, Trade, cash management, Investment services, Digital financial services and Market Risk and Product control. 
• Monitor financial markets’ trends and actively identify potential areas of revenue growth. 
• Promptly relay market data to key stakeholders for timely decision making and risk management.  Maintain world class customer experience to reduce overall bank’s Customer Effort score. 
• Ensure compliance to internal and statutory requirements.

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field from a recognized university.
• ACI Dealing certificate is required.
• 5 years’ Treasury Sales experience.
• Relationship management experience and commercial awareness preferably in a treasury function/ unit.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 26th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of technical experts maintaining KCB cloud platfroms systems running on diverse technologies such as RedHat Openshift and public cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle). 
• Responsible for ensuring conformance to security standards for all cloud platforms. 
• Responsible for CapEx and OpEx planning within the cloud platforms domain.
• Accountable for building, maintaining, and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed cloud platforms.
• Provide leadership in interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the cloud platforms with scalability, reliability and security designed.
• Provide leadership and execution of automation of systems and services at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
• Establish effective relationship with suppliers and partners to influence their plans and maximize value delivery from the relationship for all cloud platforms. 

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• Bachelor’s degree in ICT related field or Electrical Engineering
• Professional Qualifications in RedHat Administration (RHCE/RHCSA), Openshift/Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS or Azure Architect/SysOps).
• 10 years progressive working experience with at least 7 in Linux administration and at least 2 years in Docker/Openshift/Kubernetes administration.
• Experience with IT automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

To be considered your application must be received by Tuesday 27th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Gather and analyse data from various sources within and outside the business to identify trends, patterns, and insights related to the brand and market landscape while ensuring accessibility to the wider business.
• Monitor competitor activities, including pricing, marketing campaigns, and product offerings, and provide regular updates to the teams.
• Conduct market research and identify emerging industry trends, consumer behaviour, and potential opportunities for the brand.
• Develop and maintain performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate brand performance and assess the effectiveness of marketing strategies.  This includes product analysis reports, consumer behaviours, trends and insights reports for strategic decision making.  Evaluating product performance insights, trends, and strategic actions to enable product development and enhancement. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide data-driven recommendations in order to find the right questions to ask from data with practical insights and analysis to support decision making at all levels of the organization.
• Create reports, presentations, and visualizations to communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior management.  Role holder must communicate and present technical information with non-technical team members and collaborators - ability to simplify complex outputs into simple and actionable insights is key.
• Implement an effective knowledge management system and management information systems for capturing and documentation of market and product data insights and intelligence required by Brand Teams to ultimately serve business divisions.
• Design and implement data collection methods, surveys, and questionnaires to gather consumer feedback and insights.
• Collaborate with IT teams to optimize data storage, integration, and analysis processes, utilizing appropriate data management technologies. 
• Stay updated on industry best practices, emerging technologies, and analytical tools to enhance data insights capabilities and drive continuous improvement.
   

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• A bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• At Least 5 years’ experience in Research, Data Analysis and Reporting and Stakeholder Management.
• At Least 3 years’ experience in Strategy Formulation and Performance Monitoring and Tracking.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 26th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for existing Agency, Mobiloan, Internet Banking, Mobi, C2B, MTS, Channel Manager systems (herein later referred to as Digital Channels) and implementation of related projects.
• Delivering business solutions by ensuring that they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not adversely affect business processes.
• Work closely with IT Security to ensure that the Digital Channels money transfer services are well secured and in implementing SSL and other encryption certificates for ensuring robust and secure Digital Channels services.
• Roll out of business solutions, ensuring that they are well tested and are rolled out in a manner that does not adversely affect business processes, and providing processes and training to the users.
• Recommend and implement upgrades or changes to the Digital Channels solutions for performance, security or business benefits.
• User Support tasks - Provide first level IT training and support to users in addition to keeping track of user issues and oversee their prompt resolution. Develop subject matter expert knowledge of Mobile, digital Commerce and other payment banking technologies.
• Continuously analyze user requirements to develop and provide solutions.
• Enhance and develop new channels for delivering services to customers.
• Maintain and manage up to date system configurations and user documentation, also develop Business Continuity plans for both mobile channel solutions.
• Ensure compliance of SLAs with system vendors.

The Person 

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: 

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science/ Information Technology or related degree.
• At Least 3 years’ experience in Technology with 2 years’ experience in Digital Channels and Linux Server Administration.
• At Least 1 year experience in IT Projects and Business Analysis.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 26th June 2023

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Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Growth; Work with the HOD & MD, to originate debt capital markets transactions in Kenya and across the East African region.
• Partnership Management; In conjunction with the corporate banking team and the HOD, leverage off the bank’s customer base in order to originate debt capital markets mandates.
• Innovation: Develop capital structures that are responsive to customers’ needs.
• Excellence execution: Lead and coordinate execution of transactions through all stages from inception to close.
• People Management: Grow a high functioning analyst team with deep capacity to execute capital markets transactions.
• Compliance: Monitor workflow activities to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures across the sales and business development channels. Ensure procedures, TATs, SLAs and audit items are maintained/ closed within deadlines.
• Market Mapping: Undertaking detailed economic, sectorial and company research and analysis in support of investment banking transactions. Additionally, analyzing and synthesizing financial and operating information about companies and sectors to gain insights and develop opportunities for clients.
• Deal Structuring: Participating in the execution of investment banking transactions by developing responsive and innovative transaction structures in support of investment banking transactions.
• Financial Modelling Support: Reviewing and ensuring the team prepares robust financial models in support of debt and equity investment banking transactions.
• Valuation and Due-diligence: Lead the team in valuation and due-diligence assignments
• Presentations and Documentation management: Originating development of marketing materials in support of client presentations, drafting client deliverables such as the investor memorandum and working with the legal teams in drafting the project documentation.
• Relationship management: Maintaining of clients and investors relationships.

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Must have an Economics, Business, Accounting Degree or any related or numeracy focused field.
• Possession of a master’s degree, CPA, CFA, ACCA will be an added advantage.
• 5 or more years’ experience in investment banking and or structured corporate finance
• 4 or more years’ experience in Financial Modelling and Credit Analysis
• 4 or more years’ experience in Debt/Equity transaction structuring and execution
• 2 or more years in a experience in managing a team.
• Strong sales and relationship management professional with primary strength in investment, wealth, and portfolio planning.
• Ability to retain existing customers or clients, diagnose their needs and present product feature and benefits to retain their business Risk/ Reward Thinking.

To be considered your application must be received by Monday 26th June 2023