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.
Vacancy: Space and Contracts Manager
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
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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.
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Review and develop a long-term space
rationalization & allocation strategy
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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
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Manage bank owned premises, monitor
rent payments and ensure that tenants have leases
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Ensure processing of land rates and
land rents for bank owned plots
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Identify, measure and acquire space
as well as negotiate leases for the Bank property (both leased and owned)
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Co-ordinate the engagements between
service providers and the Bank in administration of contracts and agreements in
liaison with the Bank’s Legal Department.
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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
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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:
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A bachelor’s degree in Land
Economics, Building Economics, Real Estate or Law
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At least 3 years experience in
general property management
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Project management and client
management skills
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Negotiation skills and Analytical
skills
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Business awareness
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Contracts & SLA management
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Knowledge of the bank’s policies
& procedures
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Good understanding of the contract
law, land law and arbitration related to property management and contracts
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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:
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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.
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Develop manage and test back-up and
recovery plans and ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery
procedures are functioning properly.
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Ensure optimal allocation and
Management of Data Storage Systems including SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries, etc
& ensure mitigation of risks for all database systems
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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.
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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.
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Install database management systems
(RDBMS) using best practice; ensure compliance with RDBMS license agreements
and maintain upgrades and critical patches.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Bachelor’s degree in Software
Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
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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
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Oracle RDBMS 11g OCP certification,
experience & Thorough knowledge of MS SQL databases
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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
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Must have worked in a Large OLTP High
Availability Database environment
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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:
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Ensure that all systems used by the
Unit meet business needs as well as provide the required business reports at
all times.
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Identify and fix technical problems
associated with systems and system failures.
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Engage in software installation,
upgrades, and system enhancements in collaborations with Vendors.
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Maintain the required system
configuration and parameterization by ensuring that change control procedures
are maintained.
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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
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Evaluate and assess technical
requirements for systems implementation (needing) or requiring enhancements.
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Housekeeping of client software
installed in Card Centre i.e. deletion of unnecessary files, records etc.
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Implementing and maintaining database
security measures as well as applications tuning and performance monitoring
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Comply with the regulations relating
to transactions (e.g. Visa Rules and regulations)
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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:
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A bachelor’s Degree in Computer
Science or related field
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Higher diploma in Computer science.
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At least 5 years working experience
with 2 years in an ICT environment.
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Hands on experience in Cards and
E-Business systems especially with MasterCard issuing and acquiring
environment.
·
Good communication skills, analytical
and problem solving skills.
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Project management skills.
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Possess high level of integrity and
commitment to work and be self-motivated
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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:
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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.
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Maintain product profiles and audit
for products and transactions in order to have readily available database for
Bank’s future use.
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Develop and maintain working
relationships with local and international Collateral Management Agents with a
view of optimizing value to the Bank.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Bachelor’s degree in a business
related field.
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5 years experience in a credit and/or
Trade Finance role.
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Working Knowledge on International
Trade Finance tools
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ACIB/CPA/CPS /AKIB qualifications or
a course in Trade Finance will be an added advantage.
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A good understanding of the Capital
Markets; NSE; Central Bank rules and regulations with respect to the various
instruments issued or traded through them.
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Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
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Strong marketing, negotiating and
decision making skills.
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Ability to perform financial
analytics.
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Should be thorough, keen to detail
and be quality conscious.
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Ability to work well under pressure.
·
Good communication and interpersonal
skills.
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A good knowledge of the CBK’s
prudential guidelines as pertains to lending.
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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:
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Develop robust budgeting models that
will support plans formulation from first principles and enable granular budget
reviews
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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.
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Drive all forecasting updates,
changes, submissions, commentary, analysis and reporting.
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Support actual performance verses
budget analysis within the monthly and periodic reviews.
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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
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Provide expert and professional
assistance and support to the Bank’s leadership/management and staff on budget
and other related matters.
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Research, analyze, evaluate and
develop findings and make recommendations involving complex budget and
financial management issues.
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Evaluate and formulate
recommendations for enhancing the budget development process and budget
documents.
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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:
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A Degree in Finance or Commerce / MBA
preferred.
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Professional accounting qualification
such as CPA(K) or its equivalent.
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Proven advanced financial modelling
skills and ability to apply complex financial analytics.
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Experience in planning and budgeting
with clear demonstration of strong analytical ability.
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Highest standards of accuracy and
precision; highly organized.
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Strategic perspective with an ability
to analyze complex issues, develop appropriate action plans and delivers the
results
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Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis,
glean and form business insights under aggressive timelines
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Ability to synthesize/analyze diverse
information, develop and recommend strategies
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Demonstrated ability to manage
complexity and multiple initiatives
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Ability to think creatively, highly –
driven and self motivated.
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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