Career Opportunities at Kenya Commercial Bank Limited

• Prepare the monthly financial performance and the accompanying analysis for the Investment Banking Business.
• Prepare the quarterly financial reports for consolidation by the Group ensuring they comply with the relevant regulations and in accordance to the Group timelines.
• Prepare strategic financial plans, including the budgets and forecasts by collaborating with the Head of Brokerage. Monitor budgets against targets, and keep senior leadership team abreast of the organization’s financial status.
• Coordinate audits by internal auditors, external auditors, Capital Markets Authority inspectors, and KRA officials. To follow up all issues raised in audits and inspections reports and resolve them
• Ensure compliance with IFRS/IAS, Companies Act, Taxation Act and CMA guidelines.
• Ensure all regulatory returns and any other information requested by the regulator is correctly compiled and submitted on time.
• Ensure integrity of the general ledger through daily review and analysis and ensure that all Bank accounts and the relevant suspense are reconciled periodically.
• To validate and approve all payments related to the business in line with the laid down authorization limits and timings.
• Ensure Continuous monitoring and recovery of current brokerage debtors.
• Ensuring that there are adequate internal control procedures to minimize loss of income or misuse of company assets, and that all the set procedures are adhered to.
• Manage the completion of all regular daily, weekly, monthly reporting with all associated commentaries including; month end actuals and forecasts/plan, for multiple key stakeholders (incl. Exec Committee, Board, custodians, Fund managers, Regulators; CBK,CMA) Ensure there is integrity of the data and consistency of format prior to delivery to stakeholders.

• University Degree in a business related field from a recognized university. A Masters in any relevant field will be an added advantage.
• The person must be a qualified accountant (CPA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent).
• At least 3-4 years management experience in a busy Investment Banking/ Brokerage environment, 2 of which should be in Financial and Management reporting.
• Knowledge and hands on experience in Oracle Financials will be an added advantage.
• Sound knowledge of CMA guidelines and Kenyan Tax laws.
• Should have a thorough knowledge of Investment Banking industry practice, products and services.
• Understanding of IFRS/IAS and accounting principles.
• Excellent planning, problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Knowledge and hands on experience in office automation tools.

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• Work with the Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking to originate debt capital markets transactions in Kenya and across the East African region.
• Drive the expansion of the investment banking business by identifying and developing new areas of growth.
• In conjunction with the corporate banking team leverage off the bank’s customer base in order to originate debt capital markets mandates.
• Develop innovative debt financing structures that are responsive to customers’ needs.
• Lead and coordinate execution of transactions through all stages from inception to close.
• Deal execution; take a lead role, completing the due diligence, reviewing the offering memorandum, educating the sales force, interfacing with the syndicate group and ensuring that all internal and external activities to close the deal are executed.
• Client support; assist in client development and management. This will include support in business development activities and presentations, client follow-up and day-to-day client management.
• Develop and grow a high functioning investment banking team with deep capacity to execute debt capital markets transactions.
• Spreading of credit risk through loan syndications.
• Develop and manage the relationships with market regulatory authorities and other stakeholders for debt capital markets transactions.

• University Degree preferably in a related field. A Master’s degree or relevant professional qualifications in a relevant field preferably CFA or similar field will be an added advantage.
• Have at least 6-8 years management experience in investment banking and or structured corporate finance and must have:
• Experience of having worked on and supported debt capital market transactions across various sectors.

1. Experience in debt capital markets structuring and arranging.
2. Experience in deal origination and execution.
3. Experience in Capital markets advisory.
4. Experience in Relationship management.

• Comprehensive understanding of the debt capital market, products and services
• Should have a thorough knowledge of Banking products, services and the financial services Industry.
• Strong financial modeling skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with a track record of delivering client pitches as well as writing and preparing presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to establish new client relationships and generate new business.
• Should have excellent, influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to positively and clearly communicate with a variety of constituents.
• Excellent planning, problem solving, strong analytical skills and a high attention to detail.

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• Collaborate with marketing to develop content that drives online payments and e-commerce revenue including customer adoption
• Oversee and drive ROI of online payments and ecommerce strategies to enhance customer experience and successfully attract and retain customers.
• Able to supervise others to help develop objectives, set goals and model principles to grow consistently high performance levels to drive department and company success
• Monitor developing ecommerce & online payments technology trends, evaluate business opportunities, recommend and execute new project initiatives.
• Help develop and deliver regular reports on web site metrics and benchmarks to company leadership
• Developing integrated marketing programs that include: SEO, email marketing, paid search, re-targeting and drip-campaign.
• Leveraging available data and insights to develop merchandising, marketing, promotional, product optimization recommendations, loyalty, conversions and basket value.

• A university Degree preferably in IT or a business related field
• Possession of professional qualifications/post graduate degree will be an added advantage
• Must have at least 3 years’ experience in marketing including at least 1 year’s management experience.
• Previous experience of ecommerce B2B and/or B2C Marketing best practices
• Demonstrated ability to manage web site analytics tools
• Basic understanding of Web Design/Programming/Coding (UX/UI, HTML, CSS)
• Strong understanding of ecommerce and online payments platforms, content management systems (CMS) and IT technology required
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure and with tight deadlines
• Intuitive, self-driven and open minded
• Attention to detail
• Strong business acumen and collaborative skills to liaise with cross functional teams in IT, marketing, sales and customer service.
• Highly strategic thinker who is able to balance short term business plan with the long term vision needed to advance in the changing online industry.

The above position is a demanding role which the Bank will provide a competitive package for the successful candidate

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• Work with stakeholders to plan and effectively establish realistic deliverables and timelines as per product and technical specifications while ensuring projects remain on target to meet deadlines
• Demonstrate leadership abilities and discipline in solution deployments and upgrades as per schedule while coordinating release and sprint planning
• Evolve the existing software systems and applications as per architecture road map
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach and motivate team members to their optimum performance levels while advancing the IT strategy
• Work with functional teams to handover system support skills and documentation, and formulate SLAs with level 3 support.
• Build the bank’s software quality assurance capability that leads to the establishment of organizational procedures and standards leading to high-quality software as defined in the QA Framework and across all IT capability domains
• Manage the Software Quality Planning through application of appropriate procedures, standards and templates with adaptation of these to specific software projects
• Manage the process of Software Quality Control through a series of inspections, reviews, and tests used to ensure conformance of the delivered product to its specifications while monitoring Software Quality Metrics through collection and analyzing quality data to predict and control quality of the software product being developed
• Identify and implement quality management tools
• Own and maintain environments required for testing purposes

• A Bachelor’s Degree in an Information Technology related field
• Professional IT certification in the following is desirable; ESB/SOA, Java Certification, Oracle Certification, Enterprise Architecture and ITIL
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the field is required, 5 of which should be in a senior management position and may include experience in :

1. Quality Assurance
2. IT Projects
3. IT Banking Operations
4. IT Banking Systems and/or
5. Emerging Technologies