Analyst - Finance Information Management at Standard Chartered Bank Kenya

• Analyse, evaluate, design, test, implement, support and maintain finance systems and train users.
• Provide quality, timely and reliable data to finance users in an effective manner to enable the business make informed decisions;
• Analyze processes and assist in re-engineering them through provision of automated solutions;
• User creation, system interfaces, account mappings and other system administration duties;
• Ensure system controls as per group information systems guidelines;
• Data analysis support;
• Offering tailor made training solutions to finance users;
• Stakeholder management; and
• Ensure proper business continuity and disaster recovery practises
• Assist in coordinating, facilitating and promoting understanding of operational risk and in implementation and management of OR within the Unit.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Documentation and updating of DOIs and Process flows for all Finance Information Systems.

• Collecting, consolidating and documenting user requirements and specifications in liaison with Finance Senior Business Analyst.
• Raising Change Requests to Chennai ISCI Application support team for implementation.

• First level support in IDS and all related gateways and office applications.
• First level support for Finance systems and applications including IDS, PSGL, PSFTP, GDAM, EPROC, T&E and PSFCS amongst others.

• Assist Finance users in coming up with innovative utilization of I.T. solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of hub and spoke operations and business MIS.
• Improve the turnaround time on system errors and issues resolution.

• Tracking and coordination of Finance user problems including logging them with Chennai ITSC West.
• Formulate test cases and coordinate user testing in liaison with TSS for systems that impact Finance.
• Maintain a standard platform for financial systems across Africa.
• Ad hoc queries for Finance users.
• Ensure Systems Security & Access control in line with SCB Group standards for IDS.

• Management of Interfaces between Finance systems and other group systems namely EBBS, OTP, IMEX, OPICS, LOS, ACBS, CARD400,GLEL, PSGL, PSFTP,SCI, ECDD+, SME CDD, PMI, PDW,  FATCA DATAMART, SME IM (CDW), DETICA, CONVEY, FINREP.
• Providing finance systems training.

• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for finance systems.
• Monitoring and maintenance of a healthy business environment through strict compliance with Operational Risk Management Assurance Framework (ORMAF) as defined by the Group and Local Regulatory Authorities in relation to Finance systems and applications.
• To report unit’s OR issues and losses to UORM
• To assist UORM in developing and updating of procedures, controls and monitoring plans for Operational Risk Management
• Act as OR coordinator for the section
• To adhere to the agreed KCSA plans and approach
• To identify and report all exceptions on non compliance with standard controls
• To identify and report all weaknesses inherent in the standard controls
• To maintain proper record keeping on all KCSA related activities
• To maintain independence in the conduct of KCSA i.e., not selecting and reviewing sample of self-performed transactions

Qualifications and Skills

• University Degree in a Computer oriented field and at least 5 years hands on experience in a busy IS/IT department within a commercial business environment.
• Group I.T. statements of best practice.
• In-depth Knowledge of automated operation techniques and products.
• Knowledge in Database Administration
• Exceptional programming skills using Visual basic, VBA, Access, SQL etc
• Basic accounting knowledge with qualifications such as CPA I is an added advantage
• An understanding of the Bank’s various accounting and reporting requirements.
• Thorough understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Knowledge of numerous office automation software and products.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Thorough analytical skills in 4 GL’s and CASE tools
• Experience in handling projects
• Ability to work independently.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good team working and motivation skills to achieve superior performance