Latest Jobs at Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited - 2 Positions

Reference number DVD/SSD/2018

We are seeking an enthusiastic team player to join our supportive, inclusive, and dynamic team as a Data Visualization Developer who will collaborate with a variety of partners within the Bank to distill data into actionable and intuitive visualizations that drive informed decisions.

As a member of this team, you will enable data-driven decision making by developing and performing analysis, modelling, and visualization of unstructured data for engineering and research design teams. You will be working with many cross-functional teams and will need to have a passion for creating informative visualizations and presentations to communicate results to all levels of the company.

Reporting to Head – Business Intelligence, the Data Visualization Developer will be responsible for the detailed analysis, design and development of business intelligence dashboards and reports from the data warehouse and ad hoc data sources.

Additionally, he/she will be required to will provide technical support to the various business units by developing reports, dashboards, and data extraction queries of varying difficulty. Knowledge of design tools, visualization concepts, OBIEE, Oracle Visualizer, business intelligence systems, query technologies, databases and ETL tools is highly preferred.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in business analysis activities to gather required reporting and business requirements and translate these requirements into specifications that will be used to implement the required reports and dashboards, created from potentially multiple data sources.
• Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users.
• Provide technical assistance and cross training to other team members ensuring proper configuration management and change controls are implemented in their sphere of influence.
• Design and implement technology best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes while ensuring compliance with development life cycle including documentation, programming, testing and deployment
• Identify, describe and apply the current technology for data analytics using data warehousing systems, other integrated systems and visualization tools like OBIEE.
• Develop/maintain data transformations for reports and dashboards.
• Analyze data and designs dashboards in Oracle per user requirements.
• Troubleshoot visualization issues in presentation layer tools and offer immediate solutions
• Design, develop and implement solutions that meet operational improvement needs. Ensure that relevant stakeholders support decisions.
• Provide a business-based rationale for determining the necessity of incremental improvements and communicate viewpoint using the customers’ own terminology.
• Create mobile solution for executive level data visualization, identify the cost benefits of deployed BI solutions and track consumption of reports and dashboards by business users.
• Conduct prototypes, developing functional specifications, data mapping, function mapping, setting of configuration tables and setting of transaction/ control tables.
• Assist in security/ authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation
• Act as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams on data visualization and demonstrate operational agility in delivering BI solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related degree in an analytical field.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in BI development, systems development/maintenance, data analysis & reporting with OBIEE, Oracle RPD, SSRS, Data Visualizer, Tableau and other reporting tools.
• Understanding of fundamental data visualization principles coupled with Intermediate experience querying relational databases using Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, CTEs and other SQL methods.
• Excellent attention to detail with an OCD level eye for detail.
• Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Working knowledge of data warehouse concepts and dimensional cubes.
• Effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience transforming business requirements into data extraction queries to generate the necessary output.
• Self-motivation, independent, cooperative, flexible, and creative with an ability to work effectively with all levels of management in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to learn, demonstrate and apply knowledge of the business over to solutions and processes

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Job Responsibilities

• Drive and deliver exceptional sales performance by identifying and meeting Institutional and high net worth customers through marketing of products & services.
• Manage Institutional and high net worth customer queries and complaints and resolve them in a timely manner in compliance with the policies, procedures and guidelines of the company with zero tolerance to operational risk & frauds.
• Prepare and dispatch to clients’, regular investment reports that incorporate economic and market over view, current portfolio valuation, transactions and performance during the period and strategy for the following period.
• Develop and implement initiatives for maintaining strong relationships with existing customers as well as develop new relationships that guarantee a portfolio of customers.
• Ensure the existing customer relations are well maintained to achieve high customer retention as well as building effective relationships with key support functions.
• Familiarize with various investments held and be able to offer justification to the clients on purchase, hold or sale decisions as well as providing financial advice on market performance, trends and outlooks.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in a Business, Economics, Finance or related field with at least 3 years’ experience in a financial/investment services institution in a marketing/sales role.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with ability to set and meet stretching targets and strict deadline.
• Result driven with a track record of demonstrable networking, selling and influencing skills as well as ability to identify new opportunities.
• Good knowledge on bonds, shares, trading and various stock pricing methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality and trusted relationships.