Are you looking for an employer who
promotes individual excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with
a key focus on social empowerment?
The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The
Kingdom Bank” is the place for those looking to new horizons.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative and self-driven experienced professional
who will be responsible for ensuring maximization of the Bank’s resources e.g.
space, land, furniture, equipment and machinery and that all Bank contracts,
leases, licenses, etc are adequate and up to date at all times.
Vacancy: Space and Contracts Manager
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Provide support to the Bank in efficient
maintenance and service of bank assets to ensure that they are functional
and in good condition at all times through administration of service
agreements, contracts and leases.
- Review and develop a long-term space rationalization
& allocation strategy
- Review contracts and service level agreements
for cost management, efficiency and optimization as well as tender and
negotiate service contracts on behalf of the bank
- Manage bank owned premises, monitor rent
payments and ensure that tenants have leases
- Ensure processing of land rates and land rents
for bank owned plots
- Identify, measure and acquire space as well as
negotiate leases for the Bank property (both leased and owned)
- Co-ordinate the engagements between service providers
and the Bank in administration of contracts and agreements in liaison with
the Bank’s Legal Department.
- Participate in the development of an annual
and half year recurrent budgets in respect to rentals and services as well
as develop the Unit’s annual and half year work plan
- Site acquisition for new Branches/Departments
and ATMs
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
- A bachelor’s degree in Land Economics, Building
Economics, Real Estate or Law
- At least 3 years experience in general
property management
- Project management and client management
skills
- Negotiation skills and Analytical skills
- Business awareness
- Contracts & SLA management
- Knowledge of the bank’s policies &
procedures
- Good understanding of the contract law, land
law and arbitration related to property management and contracts
- In-depth knowledge of property management,
acquisition and registration
- Knowledge of the various professions in the
construction industry
Please quote this reference on your
application and on the envelope: SCM/03/HRD/2015
Vacancy: Database Administrator
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Monitor and manage the high availability
components including RAC, Dataguard, RMAN, ASM for mission critical
databases and Perform database tasks such as schema design, capacity
planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities.
- Develop manage and test back-up and recovery
plans and ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery
procedures are functioning properly.
- Ensure optimal allocation and Management of
Data Storage Systems including SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries, etc & ensure
mitigation of risks for all database systems
- Take lead role inBCP and disaster recovery
preparedness through periodic testing as scheduled and update of disaster
recovery procedures and sharing the results with management.
- Ensure both back-end organization of data and
front-end accessibility for end-users and further refining the physical
design to meet system storage requirements.
- Install database management systems (RDBMS)
using best practice; ensure compliance with RDBMS license agreements and
maintain upgrades and critical patches.
- Create and maintain database documentation,
including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data
dictionary (metadata) and maintain all technical documentation relating to
database management.
- Attend to system failure and
resolve/coordinate resolution of the problem, ensure 24/7 availability for
support of the bank’s mission critical systems & continually monitor
security events in the network, take corrective actions and generate
reports for management.
- Establish and maintain business relationships
with vendors, consultants and other outside entities providing services to
the bank while monitoring the performance of SLAs to ensure that the
database gets maximum value from the services.
- Establish user needs and monitor user access,
security and control database access permissions and privileges.
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering,
Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- 3 -5 years in database technology with
experience deploying Oracle technologies (e.g., Database, RAC, ASM,
OEM,OCM, , Data Guard,, Audit Vault, database vault, etc) in production
environments
- Oracle RDBMS 11g OCP certification, experience
& Thorough knowledge of MS SQL databases
- Thorough knowledge in SOA, Oracle Fusion
Middleware technology including Oracle Form Services, Weblogic.
Proficiency in SQL, SQL Plus, PLSQL & Strong knowledge in SAN, NAS
storage systems
- Must have worked in a Large OLTP High
Availability Database environment
- Proficiency in various operating systems like
Unix, Linux, windows
- Networking skills especially in the area of
the Oracle Clusterware and Storage administrator skills for ASM
Please quote this reference on your
application and on the envelope: DBA/03/HRD/2015
Card & E-Channels Officer
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Ensure that all systems used by the Unit meet
business needs as well as provide the required business reports at all
times.
- Identify and fix technical problems associated
with systems and system failures.
- Engage in software installation, upgrades, and
system enhancements in collaborations with Vendors.
- Maintain the required system configuration and
parameterization by ensuring that change control procedures are
maintained.
- Ensure that policies, procedures and
guidelines for information processing and outputs are well documented,
details available and well understood as well as establish and maintain
sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
- Evaluate and assess technical requirements for
systems implementation (needing) or requiring enhancements.
- Housekeeping of client software installed in
Card Centre i.e. deletion of unnecessary files, records etc.
- Implementing and maintaining database security
measures as well as applications tuning and performance monitoring
- Comply with the regulations relating to
transactions (e.g. Visa Rules and regulations)
- Review of passwords changes and safeguard of
key passwords in the safe
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
- A bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or
related field
- Higher diploma in Computer science.
- At least 5 years working experience with 2
years in an ICT environment.
- Hands on experience in Cards and E-Business
systems especially with MasterCard issuing and acquiring
environment.
- Good communication skills, analytical and
problem solving skills.
- Project management skills.
- Possess high level of integrity and commitment
to work and be self-motivated
- Detailed technical knowledge in IT, Cards
& Plastics, e-banking and understand current trends.
- General awareness of the bank’s operating
procedures.
Please quote this reference on your
application and on the envelope: CO/03/HRD/2015
Vacancy: Business Development Manager – Structured Trade & Commodity Finance
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Originate and structure business deals,
through appropriate use of term sheets and by capturing end to end
sequence of events and mitigating any inherent risks.
- Maintain product profiles and audit for
products and transactions in order to have readily available database for
Bank’s future use.
- Develop and maintain working relationships
with local and international Collateral Management Agents with a view of
optimizing value to the Bank.
- Identify business opportunities and threats
then utilize them to position the Structured Trade & Commodity
Financing (STCF) Business for the overall competitive advantage of the
Bank, within the stipulated service level agreements.
- Liaise with other departmental teams in
structuring commodity financing transactions, to ensure that customer
needs are attended to in an efficient and timely manner while safeguarding
against potential operational risks.
- Ensure that the Bank’s assets are protected
within the stipulated Collateral Management Agents (CMA) agreements, to
safeguard the Bank’s image by positively presenting it to the general
public.
- Work towards achieving targets in line with
the Bank’s products and services, while providing exceptional service to
existing and potential clients in the Bank’s chosen Markets.
- Support other departments in the Bank by
structuring innovative financial transactions to meet the customer’s
requirements for Structured Trade & Commodity Financing.
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business related field.
- 5 years experience in a credit and/or Trade
Finance role.
- Working Knowledge on International Trade
Finance tools
- ACIB/CPA/CPS /AKIB qualifications or a course
in Trade Finance will be an added advantage.
- A good understanding of the Capital Markets; NSE;
Central Bank rules and regulations with respect to the various instruments
issued or traded through them.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- Strong marketing, negotiating and decision
making skills.
- Ability to perform financial analytics.
- Should be thorough, keen to detail and be
quality conscious.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- A good knowledge of the CBK’s prudential
guidelines as pertains to lending.
- Intermediate credit skills as well as a good
understanding of Corporate Banking.
Please quote this reference on your
application and on the envelope: BDM-STCF/03/HRD/2015
Vacancy: Budgeting and Analytics Manager
The Role
The successful jobholder will be required to:
The successful jobholder will be required to:
- Develop robust budgeting models that will
support plans formulation from first principles and enable granular budget
reviews
- Provide information on key assumptions, key
performance indicators, benchmarks and drivers as a basis for preparing
the annual budget, forecasts and other plans.
- Coordinate and manage the continued
development of budgeting, financial forecasting and operating plan and
varied modelling tools.
- Drive all forecasting updates, changes,
submissions, commentary, analysis and reporting.
- Support actual performance verses budget
analysis within the monthly and periodic reviews.
- Build / develop target metric scorecards,
dashboards and other means of data analytics both at corporate level and
lower units’ levels with an eye towards institutionalizing them
- Liaise with finance business partners for
business data analytics and insights as well as collaborative budgeting
process
- Provide expert and professional assistance and
support to the Bank’s leadership/management and staff on budget and other
related matters.
- Research, analyze, evaluate and develop
findings and make recommendations involving complex budget and financial
management issues.
- Evaluate and formulate recommendations for
enhancing the budget development process and budget documents.
- Responsible for consolidated Budget for the
group and preparation of quarterly forecasts and variance analysis
Skills, Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills, attributes and competencies:
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills, attributes and competencies:
- A Degree in Finance or Commerce / MBA
preferred.
- Professional accounting qualification such as
CPA(K) or its equivalent.
- Proven advanced financial modelling skills and
ability to apply complex financial analytics.
- Experience in planning and budgeting with
clear demonstration of strong analytical ability.
- Highest standards of accuracy and precision;
highly organized.
- Strategic perspective with an ability to
analyze complex issues, develop appropriate action plans and delivers the
results
- Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis, glean and
form business insights under aggressive timelines
- Ability to synthesize/analyze diverse
information, develop and recommend strategies
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity and
multiple initiatives
- Ability to think creatively, highly – driven
and self motivated.
- 3 years related experience in a banking setup
or experience in budgeting and analytics in a consulting capacity will be
critical.
Please quote this reference on your
application and on the envelope: BAM/03/HRD/2015
How to Apply:
Interested candidates meeting the above criteria should forward an application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae accompanied by copies of certificates and indicating the current remuneration to the address shown below or send to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke by close of business 6th April 2015
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Interested candidates meeting the above criteria should forward an application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae accompanied by copies of certificates and indicating the current remuneration to the address shown below or send to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke by close of business 6th April 2015
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Only the short listed candidates will
be contacted.
The Head
Human Resources Division
Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd.
P.O. Box 48231-00100
Nairobi
The Head
Human Resources Division
Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd.
P.O. Box 48231-00100
Nairobi
