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
For the above position, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:
- Possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution; a master’s degree will be an added advantage.
- Be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
- Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in the finance field, with demonstrated management experience in the following areas:
- Financial analysis and performance management
- Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
- Business partnering
- Strategic financial planning and budgeting
- Stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
- Leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a business-related field
- Master's degree
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in the finance field
- Management experience in financial analysis and performance management
- Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
- Business partnering experience
- Strategic financial planning and budgeting experience
- Stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
- Experience leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise
- Experience reviewing IFRS9 model outputs and impairment drivers
What We Do
KCB Group, is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size. The Group's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. In 2015, KCB Group opened a representative office in Ethiopia, expanding the growth of the organization. The Bank is over 124 years old having started in Mombasa in 1896. KCB Group has over 354 branches, 26,394 Agents/POS Merchants and 1,103 ATMs. The bank also offers Mobile Banking though the KCB App, Internet Banking and Diaspora Banking Services platform that can be accessed 24/7 basis. The Bank services over 26.8 million customers across the region. KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa, with an estimated asset base of approximately Ksh. 1.02 trillion as at the of end H1 2021.
