Latest Recruitment at KCB Bank Kenya

Data, Business Analysis and AI, Procurement, Store-keeping, Supply Chain, Banking,

Business Process Analys

This role is responsible for process mapping, identifying and discussing key business areas and processes that require improvement. The role holder is responsible for organizing stakeholder process engagements, analyzing existing processes, interviewing staff, gathering data, and assessing the business model to ensure the processes documented are effective and efficient.

Key Responsibilities

  • Carries out analysis of present processes, identifies opportunities for improvement and holds stakeholder engagements with business representatives to implement the identified process changes within the business to enhance operational efficiency and improved customer experience.
  • Liaise with management to coordinate process improvement project activities Conducts periodic reviews and analysis of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on the Circle/Repository to ensure they are up to date and engages assigned business units to ensure adherence to the established processes/SOPs.
  • Interviews business unit representatives, gathers data and leads implementation of the re-engineered/improved processes.
  • Designs, maps, and documents business processes; create and present process reports.
  • Stay up to date with the latest business practices and technologies
  • Inspect effectiveness of active process improvement initiatives and make useful recommendations
  • Collect information and evaluate them in the alignment of project goals and organization goals
  • Communicate with staff at all levels to evaluate key performance measures.
  • Create process plans that contain project goals, milestones, and resources for the assigned business units.

The Person

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Economics, BSc Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering from a recognized university.
  • Professional Qualifications – Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification/ Business Analysis Certification/ Project Management, Prince 2.
  • Project Management certification – PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent
  • Minimum 5 Years’ working experience is Required.
  • 3 years’ experience progressive experience in process design and re-engineering of business processes as a process analyst
  • 2 years’ experience in stakeholder management & Project Management
  • 2 years’ experience in process design, analysis, mapping, documentation, and project management skills

Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyzing enterprise specifics – Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.
  • Analyzing and documenting requirements- Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
  • Setting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the Business subject matter experts in the development of business architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
  • Analyzing the technology environment- Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
  • Controlling solution development-Participate in solution developments to ensure technical and business requirements are adhered to.
  • Supporting project management- Provide architectural oversight of projects and ensure that requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
  • Leverage’s business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business and information architecture efforts.
  • Translates strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and logical models.
  • Build and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies, and business development documents.
  • Ability to independently facilitate discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and manage the flow of conversation while driving to meet business objectives.
  • Ability to 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.
  • Develop and guide adoption of design patterns with a view of standardizing solution components built for the enterprise.
  • Participate, guide and support quality assurance team in planning and execution of performance testing and other non-functional tests.
  • Lead in all round capacity management for current and future solutions.

The Person

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

  • Minimum 7 Years progressive experience in Information Technology.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Computer Science or Technical related
  • 5 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines such as (business architecture, application architecture, application development, middleware, microservices and Service Oriented Architecture)
  • 3 years working experience with a formal enterprise architecture framework
  • Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, cloud computing and containerization
  • Excellent understanding of software delivery processes, (DevOps) and methodologies (i.e. waterfall, agile, hybrid)

Release Manager – Continual Service Improvement

Key Responsibilities

  • Define the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the releases.
  • Own the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change Management team, build team, production team and other key stakeholders regarding the same
  • Assign and track release activities with various teams.
  • Packaging, controlling, and integrating the release components as per the dependencies identified.
  • Coordinate the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third parties.
  • Coordinate with the Build team and production teams to execute the release and produce the documentations, which will contain.
    • Build, installation and test plans, procedures and scripts.
    • Monitoring and quality assurance of the release
    • Processes and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release into the target environment.
    • Release unit roll-back procedures
    • Change remediation steps in case of release failure
  • Ensure that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests are successful as per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.
  • Obtain the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as per the release plan.
  • Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
  • Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.

The Person

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT/ Engineering /Computer Science or Technical related
  • Professional Qualifications – ITIL Foundation or Project Management
  • Minimum 5 Years’ working experience is Required.
  • 3 years’ supervisory experience
  • 5 years’ Experience in release or project management in a large environment working with multiple systems  
  • 4 years’ Experience in Applications Support, Infrastructure Support (Hardware & Cloud, Database & Network)
  • 3 years’ experience in IT Service Management processes.
  • 2 years’ Experience in Project Management

Strategic Sourcing Category Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Implement the annual Category Strategy and Plan as assigned, Timing and Sourcing Methods
  • Relationship Management and engagement of Stakeholders for Category as assigned: Branch Managers, Heads of Department, Senior Managers, Suppliers, Contractors, and Consultants.
  • Implement standards, controls, processes, or regulatory determined procedures for Category as assigned.
  • Implement Cost Management Programs/Initiatives for Category as assigned during the business cycle.
  • Implement the Supplier Contract Calendar for Category as assigned, Review expiries, inclusions, retirements, cancellations.
  • Review Suppliers Performance for category as assigned; data collation and analysis for Service Level Agreements, participate in review meetings.
  • Responsible for pricing data integrity, contract records and supplier records.
  • Manage the Supplier Contract Calendar for Category, Review expiries, inclusions, retirements, cancellations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s Degree (Business Related/Social Sciences / Supply Chain Management) from a recognized institution.
  • Member of Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM) and valid Practicing License
  • 5 years’ working experience.
  • 4 years’ experience in Procurement Strategy Management (development & implementation).
  • 1 year experience in Logistics

Portfolio Manager

Key Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and review asset allocation and other investment decisions on an ongoing basis to ensure optimal performance.
  • Building & developing strong strategic partnerships/relationships within assigned market and channels.
  • Develop a list of approved counterparties for vetting as part of an investment committee
  • Evaluate and review asset allocation strategies and other investment decisions impacting on a client portfolio on an ongoing basis to ensure optimal performance
  • Attend client’s (existing) meetings to report on portfolio performance and where applicable present the proposed investment strategy for approval.
  • Monitor, re-balance and re-align the various portfolios to ensure adherence to client IPS mandates, internal house view and regulatory framework.
  • Conduct portfolio analysis to make recommendation regarding asset allocation
  • Conduct research on viable opportunities and develop reports on investment analysis to support the investment decision process
  • Gather current market intelligence information in conjunction with the research analyst and circulate to the wider asset management team.
  • Review customer concerns and ensure appropriate action is taken and where applicable escalate issues to the Head of Fund Management.
  • Train and orient new clients and assist all members of staff to enhance their knowledge through appropriate educational opportunities.
  • Participate in the development of new investment products.
  • Participate in the preparation of requisite documents for new client tenders and make presentations where necessary

The Person

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in (Business related or equivalent) from a recognized institution.
  • Professional certification – CFA, CPA, CISA, CCMS, ICIFA, ACCA or part CFA or
  • equivalent.
  • At least 4 years’ working experience in Portfolio Management
  • Knowledgeable in operations of the Capital Markets Authority, Nairobi Security Exchange and Central Depository Settlement Corporation
  • Have knowledge of the regulatory environment and have a thorough understanding of the Capital Markets products and services

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