Co-operative Bank Jobs in Kenya

Revenue Assurance & Analytics Manager

Do you possess extensive experience in leading transformative data and

analytics reporting with a focus in revenue assurance? 

You have strong financial acumen and

a solid understanding of business processes and information flow in the banking

sector? 

You work around numbers with ease and

financials are of great interest to you.

If you are looking for an employer who promotes individual excellence and

mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment,

then The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom Bank” is the place for those

looking to new horizons.

We are looking to place a dynamic,

creative and self –driven experienced professional with a wide degree of

creativity and latitude, with a keen interest in revenue assurance &

analytics. 

This position presents you with the

opportunity to grow and develop an impressive career that will allow you to

implement analytical approaches and methodologies in performing key business

analytics for the Bank, geared towards ensuring revenue assurance.

As the role-holder, you will be expected to manage revenue assurance activities

across the business in order to continuously identify and mitigate financial

risks within revenues, margins and cash flows while identifying and delivering

opportunities and solutions to improve performance. 

This role will involve the use of

Information systems and will focus on the technical and business aspects of

revenue assurance and will maintain an end-to-end view of all customer related

revenue processes across the bank, and assess/mitigate risk in this area.
 

Specifically, the successful

jobholder will be required to:

• Import, clean, transform, validate or model
  
  data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data
  
  for decision making purposes through Continuous Audit and Continuous
  
  Controls Monitoring, Exception reporting, Business Intelligence, Spend
  
  Analytics, Wastage Analytics, Dashboarding using Interactive Data
  
  Exploration & Analysis (IDEA) software, Caseware Monitor, Excel, SQL,
  
  Qlik.


• Analyze data analysis requests obtained from
  
  management to determine operational problems define data modeling
  
  requirements, gathering and validating information, applying judgment and
  
  statistical tests and developing data structures to support the generation
  
  of business insights and strategy.


• Providing analytical thought leadership and
  
  analyzing large pools of data to discover trends, patterns, or
  
  correlations that will solve business problems and create opportunities of
  
  maximizing profitability and ensuring high quality business analytics.


• Ensure innovative and interactive utilization
  
  of appropriate analytical and risk management concepts to ensure an
  
  independent and objective assurance on effectiveness of the internal
  
  control environment.


• Identify opportunities to use data to develop
  
  new strategies and improve business performance and utilize knowledge of
  
  mathematical modeling and other optimization methods to perform
  
  quantitative and qualitative data analysis.


• Perform diagnostic reviews on the revenue
  
  assurance processes by identifying and eliminating potential revenue
  
  leakage areas by way of providing an end to end reconciliation of the
  
  various revenue lines.


• Utilize techniques for independent checks on
  
  the accuracy and completeness of data for revenue assurance adequacy.


• Drive a culture of operational revenue
  
  assurance across the business from product creations to revenue analysis,
  
  engaging and influencing all stakeholders who impact or are impacted by
  
  the revenue process.


• Undertake platform integrity assurance to
  
  identify all problems in the revenue recognition chain, enabling the
  
  subsequent correction and prevention of the causes by making leakage and
  
  losses visible so they can be consequently controlled.


• Map and implement control routines for all
  
  revenue affecting activities including discounts, adjustment and
  
  promotions as well as lead efforts to develop policies and procedures that
  
  streamline revenue assurance processes.


• Assess all risk impacts and implement
  
  effective controls into new and existing products, promotions and
  
  services.


• Lead the revenue assurance team to deliver
  
  high quality, timely and robust assurance activities, including
  
  monitoring, assessing and auditing across the bank’s products and
  
  technology solutions.

Desired Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance,
  
  Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Information Technology, Business
  
  Administration or a related quantitative analytical field.



• In- depth knowledge of banking industry
  
  technology and data landscape with proven experience in a similar position
  
  in a complex organizational set up e.g. financial services, telecoms,
  
  insurance.


• Experience in quantitative and qualitative
  
  data analysis; data modelling; developing reports; Teradata or similar
  
  relational database tool; SQL, SAS, or UNIX programming to formulate
  
  mathematical or simulation models as well as professional accounting
  
  qualification such as CPA(K) or its equivalent.


• Proven ability to lead and manage a team to
  
  deliver multiple and complex results, build effective relationships
  
  internally and externally to accomplish team goals and improve revenue
  
  assurance, prioritize tasks, work with schedules and manage resources
  
  while remaining focused on key goals & deal effectively with
  
  differences of opinion and conflict management.


• Is able to impact and influence at a senior
  
  level and execute complex analysis and formulate methodologies that cover
  
  key technical revenue leakage drivers.

 
If you are confident that you fit the role and person profile and you are keen

to add value to your career then please forward your application enclosing

detailed Curriculum Vitae to
jobs@co-opbank.co.ke the job reference number RAAM/FS/2016 by 10th February,

2016.

Vendor Relationship Manager – ICT
 

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.

We seek highly motivated professionals with experience of creating and managing

procurement within a corporate environment and with the ability to prioritize,

manage and negotiate on contracts.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Vendor Relationship Manager to join our

ICT team. 

Reporting to the Chief Information

Officer, the Vendor Relationship Manager will be responsible for building and

managing relationships with those who supply ICT products and services to the

Bank, ensuring that vendors meet or exceed their contractual obligations and

also ensuring that Bank obligations with vendors are executed with all due

diligence and within prescribed SLAs. 

The ideal candidate should have

extensive technical knowledge of hardware appliances, software contracts,

project management skills, and supplier relationship management.

The Role
 

Specifically, the successful

jobholder will be required to:

• Evaluate potential suppliers using developed
  
  and agreed criteria to support alignment and understanding of the
  
  expectations and requirements of engagement.


• Manage the effectiveness of the vendors
  
  accordingly to ensure the achievement of business objectives and outcomes,
  
  performance criteria and targets are achieved, ensuring maximum value
  
  realized from suppliers on a consistent basis.


• Monitor and report on the performance of
  
  selected vendors to ensure delivery in line with contractual obligations
  
  and performance metrics.


• Manage outward communication to vendors to
  
  facilitate understanding and awareness of organizational strategic
  
  direction, changes and challenges.


• Negotiate a comprehensive service provision
  
  that will deliver greater efficiencies for ICT products and services to
  
  the point of operation delivering business value.


• Act as a central point of contact and
  
  escalation point for vendor/stakeholder issues and coordinate, control and
  
  resolve issues/problems by devising alternative courses of action and
  
  contingency plans including innovative approaches.


• Ensure all ICT Services and products are
  
  supported by valid contracts and manage a portfolio of contracts by
  
  tracking contract milestones while liaising with procurement partners to
  
  review, report on and revise contractual agreements as necessary.


• Liaise with Legal team to develop and manage
  
  contracts with suppliers to meet key performance indicators and agreed
  
  targets.


• Be responsible for the liaison between the
  
  Bank and designated ICT supplier(s). This will involve carrying out
  
  benchmarking and making use of supplier performance data to ensure that
  
  supplier performance is properly monitored and regularly reviewed.


• Manage and implement vendor related contract
  
  extensions, significant orders, procurement, billing and undertake
  
  reporting responsibilities for these activities.


• Undertake strategic analysis, including
  
  research into suppliers, markets and product and service categories, to
  
  inform and develop commercial strategy and sourcing plans as well as
  
  focusing on continuous improvement of product and service provisions
  
  respective to budget where possible.


• Advise on policy and procedures covering the
  
  selection of suppliers, tendering, and procurement.

Desired Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business related field/Supply
  
  Management from a recognized university with a Diploma in Purchasing &
  
  Supplies or Advanced Certificate in Purchasing & Supplies.


• 3+ years of procurement experience directly
  
  managing the IT hardware and software spend category within a large organization
  
  and with a successful track record.


• Strong ability to build relationships across
  
  functions and at leadership levels.


• Ability to aggressively take the lead on
  
  implementation of savings opportunities that affect numerous lines of
  
  business.


• Ability to clearly communicate strategy, plans
  
  and issues across the organization by developing business cases,
  
  presentations & stakeholder communications.

 
​If you are confident that you fit the

role and person profile and you are keen to add value to your career then

please forward your application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to

jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference

number VRM/ICT/2016 by 10th February, 2016.

We are an equal opportunity employer.