In the dynamic world of finance, KCB Bank stands out as a beacon of innovation and excellence, constantly seeking to enhance its services and expand its team with talented professionals. As part of its commitment to delivering unparalleled banking experiences, KCB Bank is excited to announce a comprehensive recruitment drive aimed at bolstering its workforce with skilled individuals across a range of departments. With positions open from Product Design Manager to Assistant Manager, Agribusiness, the bank is on the lookout for candidates who are not only proficient in their respective fields but also share the bank’s vision of customer-centric service and digital financial innovation.
This hiring campaign includes roles such as Senior Recovery Manager-Special Assets, Technical Analyst – Digital Financial Services, and Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture, among others, reflecting the bank’s focus on diversifying its expertise to navigate the complexities of the financial sector. Opportunities also extend to pivotal roles in digital transformation, like the Commercial Analyst – Digital Financial Services and the Assistant Manager UI/UX – Digital Financial Services, emphasizing the importance of technological advancement in shaping the future of banking.
KCB Bank’s hiring initiative is an invitation to professionals who are eager to contribute to the bank’s legacy of excellence and to be part of a team that values innovation, integrity, and inclusivity. With a broad spectrum of positions available, from risk management to product design and customer excellence systems, this recruitment drive is a testament to KCB Bank’s commitment to strengthening its operations and redefining the banking experience for its customers. Interested candidates are encouraged to delve into the details of each position, ready to embark on a rewarding career journey with one of the leading banks in the industry.
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PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGER
Reporting to Senior Manager, Product Design, the role holder is responsible for developing and transforming a company’s product design process. The resource coordinates with a team of designers and engineers in the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products to meet customer needs and business goals.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002465
SENIOR RECOVERY MANAGER-SPECIAL ASSETS
Reporting to the Head Special Assets and Corporate Recoveries, the Senior Manager Special Assets shall be responsible for the delivery of turnaround strategies to a portfolio of predominantly corporate customers experiencing financial distress. This would include recommending and monitoring the objectives, strategies and actions that need to be adopted to address business-risk issues, reduce the Bank’s risk, and achieve long lasting turnaround solutions so that the customer can be returned to acceptable Credit Risk profile.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002483
TECHNICAL ANALYST – DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Analysis, The Technical Analyst will be responsible for bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions, ensuring the seamless integration and functionality of the digital financial products. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams in the analysis of technical capabilities and functionalities which contribute to the development of new digital financial services or enhancement of existing bank products. The job holder will need to have a strong understanding of digital financial services, and emerging technologies in the industry.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002458
COMMERCIAL ANALYST -DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Analysis, the role holder will be responsible for providing data analysis on the Group’s digital products to support in establishing viability for new products as well as enabling effective performance reporting. This will entail data collection, interrogation, analysis and preparation of reports
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002457
ASSISTANT MANAGER, PRODUCT DESIGN – DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
Reporting to Senior Manager, Product Design, the role holder is responsible for coordinating the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products as assigned.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002466
SENIOR MANAGER ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
The holder of the role will be responsible for providing strategic direction, designing enterprise-level technology solutions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives in a rapidly evolving financial services landscape. This role involves strategic planning, leadership, and execution of initiatives aimed at improving the bank’s Technology landscape.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002461
MANAGER, PRODUCT & MARKET INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
Reporting to the Consumer Research Manager, the role holder will play a key role in managing the process of providing cutting edge product, market, and competitor analysis; lead product, concept and customer value propositions research for business potential and pilot, test and incubate before scaling; lead design thinking workshops on customer value proposition development and ensure that competitor analysis insights are entrenched widely within the organization.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002444
MANAGER, CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE SYSTEMS
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Productivity, the Manager Customer Excellence Systems is responsible for leading, planning, coordination, and administration of customer experience platforms. This team lead position provides expertise and skills needed to effectively manage, maintain and support the customer experience solutions through proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve issues in order to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002464
MANAGER, SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE
The position holder will act as the team leader of a team of hardware engineers in charge of infrastructure including Servers, Storage, SAN, Operating Systems, Patch Management, Active Directory, and virtualization. The position holder will also provide expertise in planning and operations of systems infrastructure that is composed of diverse technology running on-premises Servers, Storage, SAN, Operating Systems.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002468
ASSISTANT MANAGER UI/UX – DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
The role is responsible for designing new features and improving existing ones to create simple and yet intuitive user experiences on the bank’s digital products. This involves gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements on the bank’s digital channels, defining the product vision, and working closely with product managers as well as internal and external developers to deliver on the bank’s digital agenda.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002459
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
The job holder will be responsible for developing solution designs specifications, reviews of solution designs and completed implementations, recommendations, and analysis of their impact on the overall business goals and outcomes. The holder of this position leverages their profound knowledge of available technologies to recommend the best solution according to the documented requirements and existing environment. The key deliverable of this role is to provide a set of technological solutions and the strategy of their implementation while minimizing technical debt.
Deadline :2024-04-05 00:00:002479
RISK AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER
The role is responsible for the management of compliance, recordkeeping, monitoring, and analytical functions involved with regulatory compliance, anti-fraud, Anti Money Laundering (AML), and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) with a strong background in Fund management and pension Compliance. The Risk and Compliance Manager’s job deals with any day-to-day compliance issues that arise during financial transactions, trading, Investment or the handling of client accounts and funds. This officer must ensure the business and its employees understand and abide by internal and regulatory procedures.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002442
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION MANAGER, BMGF PROJECT
KCB Foundation has partnered with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to implement a digital financial solution for low-income women in Kenya (the “BMGF Project”). Reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager, BMGF Project, the Finance and Administration Officer shall support all financial and administration issues related to the Project. The role is on a Fixed Term Contract.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002438
MONITORING & EVALUATION MANAGER, BMGF PROJECT
KCB Foundation has partnered with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to implement a digital financial solution for low-income women in Kenya (the “BMGF Project”). Reporting to the Project Manager, BMGF Project, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for supporting the development and leading the implementation of project/region-specific MEAL frameworks and tools. The role shall undertake day-to-day MEL activities and provide specialist MEAL support to project teams. The role will be on a Fixed Term Contract.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002439
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER – TRADE FINANCE
Reporting into the Head Trade Finance, this position is responsible for Strategic formulation and execution of Trade Finance products, systems, and services for the KCB Group.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:00245
SENIOR RELATIONSHIP MANGER, FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS
Senior Relationship Manager – Agri Business role is based within a successful and growing FMCG Team in Corporate Banking. Against a competitive backdrop, the bank seeks to enhance its dominance in the Agri Business, through the acquisition and retention of customers in the Agribusiness value chains, while optimizing customer profitability. Our attention is strongly focused on three core areas of our people, delivering outstanding service and ensuring we create value for money for customers. The role of the Senior Relationship Manager – Agri Business is to manage and develop a portfolio of commercial agricultural relationships within Corporate Banking. In addition, the jobholder will be responsible for the acquisition of new clients and building KCB Bank’s profile in the Agriculture and Professional communities.
Deadline :2024-04-08 00:00:002435
PRODUCT MANAGER, BASE AND PAYMENTS – DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
The role holder is responsible for driving the growth of the customer base who consume the Bank’s digital payments and savings products and ensure that these customers are actively engaged. The role holder will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to enhance the digital payments and savings products offerings in order to attract and retain customers, as well as drive revenue through effective solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of digital financial services, a customer-centric mindset, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002506
SENIOR MANAGER, COMMUNICATION
Reporting to the Director KCB Foundation, the Senior Manager Communications will set and guide the strategy for all communications, website, and public relations messages and collateral to consistently articulate KCB Foundation’s mission. The Senior Communications Manager will work closely with a senior peer group within the KCB Group as the communications partner on a variety of strategic initiatives. The Senior Communications Manager will enhance KCB Foundation’s brand awareness and visualize the KCB Group as a leading, trusted and socially responsive brand.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002512
SENIOR MANAGER, RISK AND COMPLIANCE
Provide compliance and risk management to KCB Foundation to align all KCBF activities to KCB Group policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards to ensure risk management and compliance across all of KCBF programmes and operations. The role shall also be responsible for the custody of all the Foundation’s policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) managing their development and review.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002511
HEAD, FUNDRAISING
KCB Foundation carries out employment and education programs in the East and Central African Region. The Head Fundraising plays a pivotal role in leading and overseeing fundraising efforts across the countries the Foundation works in. The person is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive fundraising strategies to secure financial support and partnerships from various sources, including individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies. The role will collaborate closely with the Foundation and KCB Group teams, stakeholders, and key donors to advance the organization’s mission and achieve fundraising goals. This is a key leadership role within the organization, driving philanthropic growth and impact across multiple countries. This individual’s dedication, strategic vision, and fundraising expertise are essential to advancing the Foundation’s mission and creating positive change for the communities served.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002508
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
The Software Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for implementing automated test strategies and frameworks, in addition to creating, implementing, and automating testing in support of software test requirements. The Software Quality Engineer works with QA Analysts to develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation framework and automation infrastructure.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002493
APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEER, INSURANCE & INVESTMENT BANKING SYSTEMS
The role is to ensure the 24/7 stability, integrity, and efficient operation of the Software Systems and appliances that support core business, through proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues in order to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments for the entire KCB Group.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002480
APPLICATIONS SUPPORT MANAGER, TREASURY, TRADE FINANCE AND CUSTODIAL SYSTEMS
The primary purpose of this role is to manage and coordinate the analysis, evaluation, development, testing and implementation of Banks software applications and to make recommendations on software applications. The role also covers the efficient functioning and day to day running of the business applications that support back office treasury, trade finance and custodial systems. The resource requisition is in fulfillment of DCOE additional resource requirement.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002481
APPLICATIONS SUPPORT MANAGER-BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
The primary purpose of this role is to manage and coordinate the analysis, evaluation, development, testing and implementation of Banks software applications and to make recommendations on software applications that support process flows, automation and reconciliation. The role also covers the efficient functioning and day to day running of the business applications within credit , account opening and back office operations. The resource requisition is in fulfillment of DCOE additional resource requirement.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002482
PRINCIPAL BUSINESS ANALYST
Responsible for leading requirements engineering and managing the business needs of the business users and stakeholders. The principal business analyst will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams including business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to gather and document business and technical requirements, analyze, and validate the requirements, and propose ways in which the existing processes and systems can be managed to meet business requirements. The person will also provide thought leadership and direction in business analysis and product design and support product development teams in delivery of solutions that meet business and technical requirements as per the established standards and roadmap.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002513
PRINCIPAL BUSINESS ANALYST, T24 CORE BANKING SYSTEM
Responsible for leading requirements engineering and managing the business needs of the business users and stakeholders for Temenos Transact (T24) Core Banking system and integrations projects and initiatives. The principal business analyst will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams including business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to gather and document business and technical requirements, analyze, and validate the requirements, and propose ways in which the existing processes and systems can be managed to meet business requirements. The person will also provide thought leadership and direction in Temenos Transact (T24) business analysis and product design and support solution and product development and configuration teams in delivery of solutions that meet business and technical requirements as per the established standards and roadmap in line with T24 implementation standards and frameworks.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002514
PRINCIPAL QA ENGINEER
Reporting to the Group Head of Transition Management, the role holder should be a skilled professional in both Quality Engineering as well as Software Development. The role holder will provide technical leadership for design, development, and maintenance of new and existing automation frameworks, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression tests, test coverage and automation of newly implemented functionalities. He/ She will also work closely with Software developers, software engineers, architects, project, and technical delivery managers to form and follow quality procedures, standards, and specifications ensuring that they are met and deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner. He/she also performs a critical role in leading the reviews of solution architectures and designs and ensuring that they are in line with the architecture principles, standards, and industry best practices.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002515
ASSISTANT MANAGER, AGRIBUSINESS
Responsible for growth of the agricultural portfolio, growth of market share in the agricultural value chain through the development and execution of the Agribusiness Retail strategy and achieve profitable growth of the Agribusiness brand: Agribusiness Value Chain Assets, liabilities, and Relationship Management. Travel up to 60% of the time.
Deadline :2024-04-11 00:00:002522
