Latest Jobs at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position:

Relationship Management' Department primarily role is to serve as the linkage between the Technology Division and the rest of the Bank. The Department role is to foster communication and collaboration between Technology and other teams and serves as the lead role in enabling the Bank to achieve their objectives through the effective use of Technology.

The purpose of this role is responsible for bridging the gap between Technology and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to stakeholders. They must articulate business ideas but also balance them against what is technologically feasible and financially and functionally reasonable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create transparency about upcoming business initiatives, the current demand pipeline, the current IT change execution performance, capacity situation.
• Provide support to manage and guide businesses in improving processes, products, services, and software through data analysis.
• Create a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business.
• Define prioritizing requirements and get feedback and approval on requirements i.e. What do the systems need to do, how do they do it, who do we need to get input from, and how do we get everyone to agree on what we need to do before we go and do it?
• Support the demand manager to provide ways and means to optimize the change delivery pipeline providing stakeholder visibility and ensuring efficient delivery.
• Monitor IT Change Demand pipeline ensuring constraints are identified and flagged for action by relevant stakeholders.
• Provide support to the stakeholders to entrench Agile Change management process and monitoring the performance of change against expected benefits.
• Create awareness and continuous educate on the change management processes, policies, guidelines, and stakeholder roles in the process.

The Person:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Business Technology/ Statistics or related field from a recognized university.
• Certification in both ITIL Foundation and PRINCE2 or PMP.
• 3 years technology experience with at least 3 years’ experience in:
• At least two IT disciplines such as (Project Management, Service Management, Agile Software Delivery, IT Governance, and IT Support in a multitier environment).
• Leading formal Change Management framework.
• Experience in Data Analysis & Management Reporting.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments

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The Position:

The Cybersecurity Specialist, Security Awareness is responsible for the development and implementation of KCB’s security awareness programs, educating all personnel and third parties of security threats they face in their jobs, and how to defend against them.  The Cybersecurity Specialist, Security Awareness will also be responsible for implementing KCB's phishing program. This position develops and executes targeted security awareness campaigns and measures their effectiveness. The objective of this position is to ensure that the security awareness program is effectively changing behaviours, ensuring KCB staff act in a secure manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, optimize, and support the Bank’s awareness and phishing simulation solutions, in compliance with the Bank’s policies and standards.
• Collaborate with the Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Operations Centre (CiSOC) in the continuous monitoring and defence of the Bank’s human aspects of social engineering for cybersecurity threat indicators and assist to detect, report, and respond to related incidents.
• Monitor and identify the top human aspects of social engineering risks to our organization and the behaviours we need to change to mitigate those risks.
• Develop, manage, implement, and deliver the security awareness program in liaison with Learning and Development, which focuses on changing behaviours for the organization.
• Lead the creation and procurement of security awareness deliverables such as the Cybersecurity awareness learning content and Phishing simulation solutions.
• Establish a security awareness network with key stakeholders throughout the organization to understand risks and business objectives while also enhancing the program through the established networks.
• Scoping of security awareness campaigns to meet targeted goals.
• Measurement and reporting of campaign attendance and effectiveness, and completion of assigned security awareness training.
• Provide input into Cybersecurity risk and control self-assessments.
• Drive implementation and review of Bank’s Security Awareness standards and security controls.

The Person:

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

• University degree from a recognized institution preferably in Information Technology/Computer Science/ Cyber Security/ Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) or related field.
• A professional cyber security certification in either of the following: CISA/ CISM/ CISSP/CRISC
• 5 years Technology experience with at least 3 years’ experience in a large business technology environment, with 2 years’ experience in cyber security and 1 year experience developing and delivering security awareness programs.

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The Position: 

The role holder will be responsible for leading a team that runs the models for KCBK and Group subsidiaries’ IFRS 9 Models, validate model assumptions for Probability of Default, LGD, cure rates, EAD etc and provide overall oversight over the model running.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team that runs the models for KCBK and Group subsidiaries’ IFRS 9 Models
• Interpret data for the purpose of determining the root causes of past figures, financial, costing, and operational performance 
• Overall custodian of KCBK and Group subsidiaries’ IFRS 9 Models
• Validation, integrity, and completeness of the loans data before running models.
• Support IFRS 9 Technical committee and Early Alert Committee.
• Update model assumptions for Probability of Default, Cure Rates, Overlays for macroeconomic indicators
• Ensure proper application of Retail Overlay recovery rate and Digital Loans; Mobi and KCB Mpesa post write-off recovery.
• Offer support in External and Internal Audit engagement.
• Support IFRS 9 Technical committee and early alert committees with recommendations for model enhancement.
• Offer support in External and Internal Audit engagement with respect to IFRS9 model quality assurance, validation, and accuracy controls.
• Validate the IFRS 9 Listing for CBK returns.
• Support business processes to optimize capital allocation and processes to support business growth based on opportunities that arise from the models.
• Validate the Sensitivity analysis and projection reports.
• Provide effective insights and analysis to assist the Enterprise Business in meeting the established financial and profit objectives; Provide analytical support and analysis to the Business Performance Manager.

The Person:

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

• A degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Physics, Actuarial science, mathematics or related fields.
• 8 years’ experience in a Financial/ credit Reporting role, or general banking, or in an actuarial role, or Credit risk management.
• 1 year working experience handling large data sets for a bank ideally with Big 5 audit firms, or in a Finance function or Credit or in an actuary on a day-to-day basis in a top tier bank or supporting a top tier bank in Kenya.
• 1 year working knowledge of SQL scripting using any tools SQL developer, or any other applicable tools on a day-to-day basis.
• Clear understanding of Credit facilities offered by banks and their risk profiles.