Jobs at Stanbic Bank

Job Purpose:

The role includes establishment and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the Corporate & Investment Banking units to aid in decision Making and the monitoring of products, channels and segments profitability.

Key responsibilities include;

Financial Management and Analysis

• Influence decision makers and advise managers on financial processes, control measures, budgets and financial performance.
• Perform in depth and more advanced analyses demonstrating the way in which financial ratios, trends, business and value drivers interact
• Building, analyzing and interpret numerical and non-numerical data to determine potential risk exposure and statistical inferences to inform business decisions

Strategic Planning and Supporting

• Formulate objectives and priorities and implement plans consistent with the long-term interests of the segments in a global environment. The ability to identify and capitalize on opportunities and manage risks.
• Understanding the line-of-sight between strategy and segment implementation and translating the organizational strategy into specific decisions and actions to ensure the strategy implementation.
• Aligns resources to effectively execute against the strategic direction.

Drive Delivery of Results

• Proactively identify business opportunities or barriers to business performance and addresses them and take accountability for improving the business.
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency around the achievement of stretching business goals.

Financial and Accounting Control

• Design control measures and checks in accounting and financial processing activities to mitigate risks of errors, omissions and fraud.

Managing key internal and external relationships

• Fostering relationships that benefit the Segments as well as an individual’s effectiveness and efficiency. More specifically, contacting others and strengthening relationships.

Product Management

• Review & maintain NIR mapping & product structure blueprints on a regular basis & alignment by country, by collaborating & leveraging from product teams to understand pricing, volumes & use information to provide financial analysis & insight
• Identify & develop new product structures to be set up & facilitate the process implementation by supporting Segments, specifically regarding new accounting initiatives & business case template support.

Technology & Architecture

• Identify GAPs in product automated mapping that will improve the financial & MIS reporting capabilities, working with GBM & core banking teams, initiate recommendations for improvement & manage the implementation of recommendations.

Cost management and control

• Champion cost management and control by benchmarking information against competitors and creating more effective cost controls.
• Identify and undertake cost reduction initiatives to achieve the strategic Cost to Income Ratio (CTIR).
• Constantly review and periodically revise, in conjunction with business units, profit/cost allocation rates.

Compliance

• Responsible for the implementation and adoption within department of all compliance, Anti-money laundering and sanctions related requirements contained in policies, procedures and processes. This includes the engagement in instances where no adverse information is available.

Qualification and Experience:

• First Degree in Finance & Accounting
• CPA (K) or ACCA
• Preferable - Masters Degree in Business Commerce/Finance & Accounting
• 5 - 7 years’ Experience in advising business leaders on the financial aspects of their decision making process, preferably in a financial services environment

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Responsibilities:

Ensure availability and performance of the production and test databases that support the core banking application.

• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the production and test databases that support the core banking application.
• Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the database and to ensure high availability and optimum performance.
• Responsible for the management and support of Oracle Data guard solution with a view of ensuring a consistently efficient backup process which ultimately aids IT efforts of meeting the established Service Level Agreements (SLA) with business.
• Responsible for a problem escalation to third parties as appropriate

Monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.

• To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimal downtime.
• Responsible for providing trend analysis (including capacity and utilization analysis) to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.

Support and maintenance of the production and test databases according to group standards

• use of the databases and ultimately aid all the application initiatives.
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
• Responsible for testing all Oracle database changes including fixes, patches and upgrades in line with laid down change control policies.
• Responsible for implementation and release of database changes after thorough and comprehensive tests with sufficient engagement with all stakeholders e.g. application and infrastructure teas.
• Planning and budgeting for the purchase of new hardware and software licenses (IT Strategy, end of life, out of warranty)
• Ensure compliance on licensing for Oracle databases through periodic review (half-yearly), proactive resolution of license compliance exposures and to adequately prepare for software maintenance renewals
• Come up with business continuity management related strategies for Oracle databases to enable the oracle database related services to be available within agreed RTO/RPO
• Infrastructure capacity planning for future business projected growth
• Optimization of the existing infrastructure to achieve optimal performance
• Participate in IT/Business projects implementation as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, or a related field of study
• At least 7 years’ experience in design and administration of logical and relational databases or systems analysis required. Proficiency in Oracle versions 10g, 11g and 12c, Oracle cloud control and Oracle ASM. Strong understanding of Oracle relational databases, data structures and SQL
• Technically competent with knowledge of systems management, development and implementation methods and infrastructure.