Vacancies at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

The Legal Counsel is responsible for managing full spectrum of the Bank’s Retail Banking business from lending, securities, contracting and retail projects, litigation and recoveries. The role’s principal goal will be to offer practical legal support to the retail banking business units through balanced business-oriented legal advice that will guarantee that all our retail banking transactions and decisions comply with established laws and regulations in line with the legal risk policy and related contractual, litigation, recovery and securities procedures & processes.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Retail Banking Contract and Customer Documentation Administration and Retail Advisory & Management

• Manage day to day operations of the retail legal contract and customer documentation by providing concise and practical legal solutions
• Ensure that all retail contracts and customer documentation are accurate in compliance with the legal policy and other internal policies, statutory regulations and generate timely parameters required for internal and external deadlines;
• Manage the retail contracting and customer documentation space, personnel and oversee, facilitate, draft and negotiate contracts and customer documentation in support of the retail banking business needs;
• Closure on audit issues raised with respect to retail contracts and customer documentation by ensuring a satisfactory “met” ratings for audit matters raised and providing specific timelines for closure of audit issues (the timelines should not exceed two weeks).

Retail Banking Securities (Perfection and Review) & Credit Approvals Support Management

• Manage the legal securities docket for retail lending in line with the security perfection and review procedure from the credit approval requests and advice;

Retail Recoveries and Retail Legal Queries

• Ensuring compliance with the policy (ies) relating to procedures related to litigation and legal queries management for retail banking.
• Supervise the litigation and queries and ensure reduction of legal exposure through adverse judgements for retail banking; Customer Experience
• Compliance of the SLAs between the department and internal and external customers.
• Ensuring that legal costs are minimised and all opportunities to minimise costs within the department and by digital business and subsidiaries are taken and suggest
• innovative ways of reducing costs within the department.

People &Culture Leadership (5%)

• Ensure attendance of Continuing Professional Development Courses with the LSK and meet the required points for the following year’s practicing requirements.
• Ensure that there is proper succession plans for key roles and career development for direct reports.

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree Law (LLB)
• Master of Laws (LLM) (Desired but not necessary)

Professional:

• Admission as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya (minimum 5 - 7 years post admission
• A Masters degree in combination with an aggregate of five to seven (7) years of qualifying work experience may be accepted)

Desired work experience:

• A minimum of 5 - 7 years’ experience legal department of a busy organization, financial institution or law firm

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Job Purpose Statement

The Legal Counsel is responsible for providing support to the allocated units for corporate banking business for lending both in country and syndicated cross border lending, securities, contracting, contract projects, litigation, recoveries to corporate restructures.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Corporate Litigation & Recoveries Support

For allocated units ensure:

• Ensuring compliance with the policies relating to procedures related to litigation management
• Providing concise, responsive and practical legal solutions to all legal issues on all allocated litigation files. The solutions should be sought through external counsels as well as proper research conducted.
• Ensuring successful negotiation of matters out of court to ensure that the costs to the Bank are minimized by avoiding expensive litigation in conjunction to the business teams on whether the approach is plausible.
• Receiving summons in the proper manner and ensuring that the proper defenses are filed on time. Ensure that the summons received are sent to external advocates.
• Payment of the advocates fees at least within two weeks of receiving an undisputed fee note.
• Ensuring that all reports are provided in time within allowable time frames.
• Attending management meetings on recoveries upon request.
• Keeping abreast with and proactively acting on market developments that may adversely affect the banks success to recover loans.
• Project relevant trends that affect the collectibles in allocated corporate recoveries portfolio and isolate potential problem areas.

General Legal Queries Management

For allocated units ensure:

• Provision of legal advice and support including preparation of Executive summary on all legal queries and Ensure ES is completed within 5 days from the date the issue arose.
• Prepare draft Executive summaries to various legal issues and ensure the drafts are reviewed by Senior Legal counsel and the Head of legal where necessary.
• Carry out research on laws and regulations (both new and old) affecting the bank and advice on the impact of such laws on the business.
• Give guidance on consumer protections as per the consumer protection Act and the Prudential Guidelines.

Contract and Customer Documentation & Corporate Advisory

For allocated units ensure:

• Compliance with policy and procedures related to contracting & customer documentation;
• Providing concise, practical and effective legal opinions on contracting and customer documentation, assist with preparation of Executive Summaries
• Review and drafting of contracts and customer documentation (where necessary engage the services of external counsel
• Successful negotiation and execution of contractual terms for both contracts and customer documentation between the Group and external parties

(Perfection and Review) & Credit Approvals Support (15%)

For allocated units ensure:

• The review of and advice for credit approval support request on corporate securities;
• Discuss and draft the credit approval support advice with the Legal Officer/ Senior Legal Counsel; Customer Experience

Enhance customer experience (25%)

• Compliance of the SLAs between the department and our internal and external customers.

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree Law (LLB)
• Master of Laws (LLM) (Desired but not necessary)

Professional:

• Admission as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya (minimum 5 - 7 years post admission
• A Masters degree in combination with an aggregate of five to seven (7) years of qualifying work experience may be accepted)

Desired work experience:

• A minimum of 5 - 7 years’ experience legal department of a busy organization, financial institution or law firm

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Job Purpose Statement

The Senior Legal Counsel is responsible for managing full spectrum of the Bank’s Corporate Banking business from lending both in country and syndicated cross border lending, securities, contracting and corporate projects, litigation, recoveries to corporate restructures. The role’s principal goal will be to offer practical legal support to the corporate banking business units through balanced business-oriented legal advice that will guarantee that all our Corporate Banking transactions and decisions comply with established laws and regulations in line with the legal risk policy and related contractual, litigation and securities procedures & processes.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Contract and Customer Documentation

• Manage day to day operations of the corporate legal contract and customer documentation.
• Ensure that all corporate contracts and customer documentation are accurate in compliance with the legal policy and other internal policies, statutory regulations
• Manage the corporate contracting and customer documentation space, personnel and oversee, facilitate, draft and negotiate contracts and customer documentation in support of the corporate banking business needs;
• Ensure attendance, engagement and participation in contract and customer documentation negotiations on engagements/transactions that the corporate banking
• business are getting involved in;
• Supervise and ensure that all contractual and customer documentation is practical;
• Ensure legal corporate banking staff are properly trained and educated on all existing/new regulations, policies and procedures, product information,
• Closure on audit issues raised with respect to corporate contracts & customer documentation
• Manage the legal securities docket for corporate lending in line with the security perfection and review procedure
• Manage the legal advice provided for drafting of corporate securities and allocation for security perfection reports;
• Manage the preparation of relevant opinions on security perfection for corporate banking and discuss any opinions with the corporate team;
• Manage the security review process of previously registered securities.
• Closure on audit issues raised with respect to corporate securities (Perfection and Review)

Support and Corporate Legal Queries

• Ensuring compliance with the policies relating to procedures related to litigation and legal queries management for corporate banking.
• Supervise the litigation and queries and ensure reduction of legal exposure
• Ensuring successful negotiation of matters out of court
• Keeping abreast with and proactively acting on market developments that may adversely affect the banks success to recover loans;
• Ensuring that all reports are provided in time within allowable time frames
• Attending MCC sub-committees and other management meetings on recoveries upon request.
• Closure on audit issues raised with respect to corporate recoveries, litigation and queries
• Customer Experience
• Compliance of the SLAs between the department and internal and external customers.
• Ensuring that legal costs are minimised.

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree Law (LLB)
• Master of Laws (LLM) (Desired but not mandatory)

Professional:

• Admission as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya (minimum 7 years post admission
• A Masters degree in combination with an aggregate of seven (7) years of qualifying workexperience may be accepted)

Desired work experience:

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience legal department of a busy organization, financial institution or law firm, with sound exposure to:
• Contract and customer documentation drafting
• Development of sound legal advisory and sound general advise
• Credit or lending
• Corporate recoveries
• Perfection of securities

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Job Purpose Statement

To develop technical solutions to problems and opportunities presented by the Business. Functional and non-functional aspects of the technical solutions should be considered utilizing the available technology assets. The role will act as the technical lead for major system projects and will provide technical
direction and proposals to meet the new business requirements or cover an existing functionality gap.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Translate documented business requirements into functional and non-functional technical requirements for development/implementation.
• Work with business and all technical teams with an interest in the design of the solutions to ensure they are easy to operate and maintain while keeping in line to NCBA’s security standards.
• Support project management- Provide technical oversight on projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework
• Manage, lead & mentor Solution Architects & Business Analysts in their day-to-day work and professional development.
• Translate strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and logical models.
• Independently manage conflict among diverse cross portfolio stakeholders related to competing interests and requirements. Able to help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.
• Reviewing development to ensure what is delivered is as per the agreed architecture, technical requirements and is also in line with the Business intent. The review should be done with every iteration or change from Business requirements.
• Set baseline through introduction of standards and working practices such as coding standards, design principles and tools.
• Experimenting by building prototypes, frameworks and foundations to be consumed by the technical team.
• Propose and keep a repository of architectural improvements
• Participating in technology selection-Participate in identifying fit for purpose technologies solutions for Digital Business

Job Specification:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study from a recognized university.
• At least one certification from the following CBAP, TOGAF, ITIL Foundation or Design Thinking and Innovation.
• At least 5 years background in software development inclusive of databases, applications, infrastructure, cloud technologies.
• Experience in software development lifecycle management using waterfall, agile & hybrid methodologies.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing mass market complex projects within the financial services industry.
• Ability to communicate and influence even in ambiguous environments with no formal authority.
• Excellent understanding of DevOps, Agile working and CICD
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items to actionable elements.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation & negotiation.
• Experience in leading a high-performance team of engineers & solution architects.