Vacancy title:
Head Of Central Operations
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Jobs at:
Kenya Commercial Bank LimitedDeadline of this Job:
24 January 2020 Â
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 09, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya - incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 - and all KCB's regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation and all associate companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group's capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group's operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in management of subsidiaries. .
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop plans for the achievement of Operational Excellence standards, Service and cost targets for Central Operations.
• Optimize cost of operations through centralization of all non-customer facing and non-country specific operational processes and develop processes for cost sharing among business units.
• Work closely with business units to ensure seamless services, identify process weakness, issues resolution, and implement appropriate solutions to improve centralized operations.
• Develop standards, productivity measures and Service Level Agreements with business units to drive and monitor performance.
• Develop and implement appropriate control processes to ensure that all elements of Operational risk, e.g. Fraud, Closure of Audit recommendations, are managed effectively across Central Operations.
• Monitor, Report and Review levels of service delivery against agreed SLAs and drive process automation to achieve best in class transaction processing capabilities
• Work with Internal Audit to identify the key risk parameters for consideration during audit planning, in order to ensure the monitoring and resolution, within agreed timeframe, of all audit exceptions.
• Timely provision of accurate Management information for internal and regulatory requirements..
Job Skills: Not Specified
Qualification & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business related field.
• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Thorough understanding of Banking Law and Central Bank guidelines
• Any relevant professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in Banking, 6 years of which should be in a Senior Management position within Banking Operations.
• Sound understanding of ALL the Bank’s operations and processes and excellent knowledge of Bank policies and procedures.
• Experience in driving process, service and operational transformation.
• Excellent people management skills with ability to attract, retain and motivate people
• Experience in the service management of business operations, including process design, change management, measurement and improvements.
• Experience in developing and evolving an organization that interfaces with employees, vendors, functional business owners and technology..
Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience: Not specified
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Job application procedure
 Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
NB: In the event that you are successful, we will require that you provide us with the following documents:
• National I.D.
• KRA Pin Card
• Birth Certificate of self
• Passport Photo (White Background)
• Candidates shall be interviewed
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