Career Opportunities at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

The Head, Group Operations Audit will be responsible for the development and execution of the Group Operations Audit Plan. Providing assurance as needed to Senior Management of KCB Bank Group, through the Group Audit Director, that the processes and controls by means of which the business is managed are appropriate to the task and are functioning effectively. And undertaking of risk assessments and lead or perform internal audit assignments to deliver the Group Operations Audit Plan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and monitor the delivery of the Group Operations Audits; understanding the key audit issues arising and escalating any significant audit findings that remain unresolved.
• Provide expert audit advise to the Group Audit Director.
• Oversee control and management of the Group Operations Audits Universe activities assigned by the Group Audit Director.
• Develop and maintain a robust risk assessment process for documenting and communicating results of business risk assessment and audit plan for each business. 
• Work with Credit, Treasury & Legal Audit (CTLA) team and Information Systems Audit (ISA) team to achieve a wholistic approach to the assessment of risks, development and execution of audit plans.
• Provide administrative support to the Group Operations Audit teams and ensure compliance with local laws and regulations applicable to audit.
• Oversee the performance of the Group Operations Audits and ensure personal development and performance management of staff around responsibility are managed appropriately.
• Identify and escalate significant issues.
• Manage professional audit teams’ fieldwork when assigned as Team Leader/Manager.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• A Business-Related Degree from a recognized university.
• CPA (K) Certification.
• At least 10 years’ experience in Senior Management position in Audit, Finance, Retail or Corporate Banking and Operations. With at least, 5 years’ experience in Audit, 2 years’ experience in Finance and 1 year experience in Credit, Banking Operations and Treasury, Retail or Corporate Businesses.

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The Position:

The Audit Manager, Cyber Security is a role within the Audit Division, reporting to the Head, Information Systems Audit. The role holder will give objective and independent assurance that the bank’s Information Systems are appropriate, well utilized, reliable and secure while giving commensurate recommendations on areas of improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to conducting cyber risk assessment for assigned audit assignments
• Perform IT general and IT application control reviews on information systems to give assurance on effectiveness and efficiency of control environment, and compliance to KCB Group policies and Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Prudential guidelines.
• Perform independent threat and vulnerability assessment tests and report on cyber risks and controls of the ICT systems within the bank and other related third-party connections.
• Conduct comprehensive penetration tests of the bank’s web-based applications, mobile applications, networks, and ICT systems to assess the effectiveness of the cybersecurity framework implemented by the bank.
• Documents the results of audit work in accordance with internal audit guidelines and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) standards.
• Share knowledge, skills, and experience with team members.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized University in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Professional Qualifications in Information Systems Audit / Security- CISA/CISM/CISSP
• Professional Qualifications in Penetration Testing - CEH/ LPT/OSCP/CCIE Security/CSX Practitioner
• 4 years’ progressive experience in Audit with at least 2 years’ experience in IS Audit and Cyber Security Reviews, Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing.

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The Position:

The Business Development Manager, Trade Finance is responsible for growing the assigned Trade Finance client portfolio with a Bias to Supply Chain Finance and maximizing business volumes and revenues while ensuring compliance with internal procedures and operational controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Grow Trade Finance business volumes and revenues, and manage assigned client portfolio, from the process of deal origination, structuring and credit approval to contracting and placement while ensuring that the process is efficient.
• Provide advisory services, as a product specialist, on Trade Finance solutions, transactions and services to clients, sales and credit colleagues and other relevant stakeholders.
• Prospect for ‘new to bank’ clients in conjunction with Relationship Managers and offer innovative and customised solutions.
• Champion the delivery of consistent, seamless and trusted customer service to ensure customer retention and loyalty.
• Participate in the preparation of account plans, covering all aspects of local and international Trade Finance, in concert with Relationship Managers, including Supply Chain Finance.
• Enhance the uptake of KCB’s Trade Finance products and services by existing and new clients, through providing technical product expertise and conducting joint calls in partnership with relevant business units in the bank.
• Engage Relationship Managers and provide all product support needed for timely submission of quality credit proposals involving Trade Finance.
• Develop in conjunction with the Senior Business Development Manager, implement and manage a range of innovative Trade Finance products and solutions to meet customer requirements and achieve business objectives.
• Provide and sustain assurance that the risks associated with Structured Trade Finance transactions in the assigned portfolio remain within approved appetite and are accurately captured in client term sheets.
• Ensure compliance to the Bank’s policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Market for Trade Finance business, including Supply Chain Finance
• Prepare term sheets for Trade Finance facilities.
• Monitor and push utilization of customer Trade Finance facilities
• Provide specialist technical support and advice to external and internal customers (including Trade Services, branches and relationship managers).
• Review release orders for Structured Trade Finance products

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
• At least five years’ banking experience in the Financial/banking sector, with at least three years of which should be in Trade Finance Business Development, with bias in Supply Chain Finance
• Knowledge and working experience with Supply Chain Finance systems
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial thinking
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Integrity & courage to challenge actions within various business units and the status quo.
• Strong persuasion, management, and communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Creative approach, with the ability to anticipate challenges and develop innovative solutions

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The Position:

The DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. The DevOps engineer acts as a fulcrum between development and operational teams, and basically forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.
• Envision, build, and execute automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
• Contribute to developing best practices for infrastructure as code (such as Puppet, Shell scripting); software build tools (such as Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (such as Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• Mentoring and coaching junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, quality assurance and software deployment.
• Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups, and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.
• Setup/Configuration/Administration of code Repositories like Git, SVN
• Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and recoverability of the same as required.
• Development of process and procedures of code versions to ensure proper governance and security is always maintained within the enterprise.
• Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps orchestration/automation processes.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• Certification in cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or related.
• Use of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or similar and professional software development using JAVA, Python etc is required.
• 3 years’ experience in commercial software development with at least 2 years’ experience in developing release pipelines and GitOps frameworks.
• Proficient in scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge of configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.