Job Opportunities at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

Reporting to the Head of Business Performance, this role is responsible managing Corporate and Treasury analytics, providing strategic insights on business performance, supporting the implementation of strategic projects and initiatives, and coordination of the Corporate and Treasury annual budgeting and forecasting processes. The Finance Business Partner works alongside the Corporate and Treasury analysts to identify value creating initiatives and monitor their successful implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights, and options to enable the business to make sound decisions
• Summarize actual performance vs. budget with variance analysis and reforecast of full year performance for the Corporate and Treasury team
• Identify areas for performance improvement in the Corporate and Treasury business and challenge base assumptions
• Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.
• Prepare budget Management Information and communicate to the Corporate and Treasury teams to assist in task prioritization
• Define financial monitoring process for initiatives, sourcing reporting data and generating reporting to enable effective management control
• Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats
• Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements focused on the key drivers of value in the business
• Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics, and corporate targets
• Analysis of the bank’s assets and liabilities performance drawing insights and recommendations on balance sheet optimization

Job Requirements:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in a Business field from an Institution recognized by Commission for University Education
• Professional certification in any of the following: CPA, ACCA, CFA. MBA is an added advantage
• Total minimum 8 years’ experience in a Finance Function out of which 6 years should be in Financial Analysis and 6 years in Business finance partnering
• High commercial awareness with thorough understanding of corporate, and treasury products
• Should have excellent high quality interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with the ability to network and strong business relations
• Should be innovative in identifying, developing, and harnessing new and existing opportunities to maximize business revenue
• Excellent analytical skills and outstanding flair for numbers.

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The Position:

To administer, coordinate, review, implement and manage KCB Group Data Center Network Infrastructure, to ensure stable operations of the bank’s IT infrastructure.

This includes developing, maintaining, supporting and optimizing key functional areas particularly data center infrastructure that enhance and optimize customer experience and deliver on business needs while retaining secured high network availability, data transmission integrity, and data transmission security across various technology platforms and network services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing, monitoring and optimizing the Data Center environment – Core Enterprise Network, Core Voice Network, Load Balancers, Perimeter and Data Center Security Infrastructure.
• Lead the migration to new stable state of the art advanced data center technologies or any planned upgrades for data center network infrastructure.
• Monitor all software and hardware products and ensure compliance with Data Center standards and systems.
• Perform troubleshoot on data center, identify issues, and assist in timely resolution of the same.
• Coordinate with various departments and perform integration of critical systems into data center infrastructure and develop strategies to ensure achievement of data center capacity.
• Responsible for deploying and implementing network security controls as outlined by the Information Security, policy, standards, and guidelines.
• Ensures that the logical and physical network is performing as required and works with internal and external service providers to repair and restore service as needed.
• Ensure that Up to date systems configurations and documentations are kept for all data centre network infrastructure.
• Vendors and SLA management for continuous provision of uninterrupted quality service to the Bank.
• Service level Application in relation to Telecom service providers and Equipment supporting network functions.

Job Requirements:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in BSc. Information Technology/ Telecommunications or related field with over 5 years progressive experience in IT environment.
• Professional Qualifications: Certified Network Professional e.g. CCNP
• ITIL, Certified Voice Professional, Certified Security Professional, Certified Network Professional, COTIT, Checkpoint, or any other professional data center network qualifications will be an added advantage.
• Master’s Degree in Science or Business Administration will be an added advantage
• 5 years’ experience in Networking (Routing and Switching);
• 5 years’ experience in Telephony and Voice;
• 5 years’ experience in Network Security;
• 5 years’ experience in SLA Vendor Management;
• 5 years’ experience in Customer Service