Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.
• Develop and implement processes for business planning, enterprise budgeting, enterprise performance monitoring and analysis, financial modelling and post investment review.
• Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic performance reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.
• Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats.
• Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights and options to enable the business to make sound decisions.
• Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements, with a focus on the key drivers of value in the enterprise.
• Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics and corporate targets.
• Review of IFRS9 model outputs, impairment drivers, and translating these for insights to business teams in a non-technical manner to inform business decisions.
• Review of investment spend and operating costs for opportunities to extract cost efficient initiatives and inform return on investments.
• Ensure timely and quality board and senior management performance packs.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

The preferred candidate will meet the below criteria:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in a business related field from a recognized institution. A Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• Is a Certified Public Accountant
• Has at least 8 years experience in the finance field, with specific management experience in the following areas:
  • Financial Analysis & performance management, including expert use in business intelligence solutions, eg. EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, Power BI
  • Business Partnering
  • Stakeholder management
  • Managing a team at various levels of finance expertise