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Co-operative
Bank of Kenya
Legal
Officer
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 people who
want to make the world a better place and achieve great things.
Are
you dynamic, keen, self-driven and highly motivated experienced professional
with high degree of integrity, dependability and confidentiality with strong
understanding of legal systems.
Do you seek to do things differently and go an extra mile to
ensure the success of the team?
If yes
this is the ideal next career step for you.
Reporting to the Head – Legal Services Department, the role holder will be
responsible for ensuring the core business of the bank i.e. lending to
customers is highly supported by undertaking the conveyance and security
perfection process.
The Role
The
successful jobholder will be expected to:
- Provide
legal advisory services to all departments within the Bank including
providing independent legal advice and judgment to mitigate any legal
risks. - Manage
litigation against the Bank including external lawyers involved in
litigation as well as review, analyzing and interpreting laws, regulations
and judicial decisions. - Provide
support in contract negotiations and management including review of
contractual agreements for the bank and providing recourse options for
non-performing contractors as well as preparing, reviewing and modifying
contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities. - Advice
the relevant departments on the perfection of securities and documentation
as well as managing the annual securities audits and advise on the
remedial process. - Offer
cost effective and timely legal advisory services and support to the
credit recovery function of the Bank in order to foster effective
management of regulatory and litigation risk in the recovery of
Non-Performing loans. - Prepare
and facilitate staff training on specific legal matters affecting the bank
including dissemination of appropriate legal requirements to various
departments. - Participating
in risk management sessions that have a bearing on legal matters, review
risk reports for purposes of managing key risks efficiently in the risk
management process and undertake research on current legal developments
and prepare briefs to the Head of Legal. - Support
the Board Secretariat in carrying out secretarial duties.
Qualifications,
Skills & Attributes
The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following
qualifications:-
- Must
have a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from a recognized University with a
minimum of five years legal experience ideally in a leading organization,
with a proven track record in litigation management and conveyance. - Must
be an advocate of the High Court with a current practicing certificate.
CPS will be an added advantage. - Working
knowledge of the legal environment for Banking and general
business/commerce in Kenya will be added advantage. - Strong
conceptual, analytical, documentation and presentation skills with ability
to influence and negotiate at different levels.
How to
Apply:
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 LM/3/CS/2015 by 13th May, 2016.
Unix
Storage Engineer
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 individuals who will provide guidance, standards and statements of
direction for the bank’s server / storage farms in line with the banks desire
to gain a competitive advantage in the market.
This requires good analysis and ongoing knowledge of current and
changing business, financial (budgetary) and technological environments and the
ability to translate those environments into blueprints to lead the migration
to the new environment.
The UNIX & Storage Engineer will be responsible for end-to-end and proactive
UNIX servers including storage, backup solutions design & administration,
performance monitoring & management of server, storage & backup of
Infrastructure, and general ICT systems.
This
will involve setting up of optimal performance bench marks and use of modern
and appropriate tools coupled with best practice.
The
holder will also ensure high systems availability and improvements to meet
business growth demands, ensure timely intervention by key stake holders,
improved performance, enhanced system security, business continuity and
competitiveness in product and service development.
The Role
Specifically,
the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Monitor
performance and manage parameters to provide fast responses to the various
applications and databases running on the infrastructure stack. This
includes systems logs, events and event correlation and maintaining
performance statistics and setting baseline statistics. - Monitor
and manage the high availability components including powerHA, GPFS for
mission critical servers. - Develop,
manage and test back-up and recovery plans and ensuring that storage,
archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning properly. - Allocate
and manage Data Storage Systems including SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries, etc
and perform server/storage tasks such as systems design, capacity
planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities. - Take
lead role in the various I.T. audits in providing necessary information
and enforcing closure of audit, change management and compliance issues. - Manage
key I.T. risks for all servers, storage & backup sub-systems and
ensure proper mitigation. - Take
lead role in BCP and disaster recovery preparedness through periodic
testing as scheduled, update of disaster recovery procedures and sharing
the results with management. - Team
up with applications support, development and DBA team in the development,
implementation, management applications, infrastructure, and monitor
system health in order to proactively identify weaknesses and address
them. - Create
new LPARs using best practice, ensure compliance with IBM license
agreements and maintain upgrades and critical patches. - Create
and maintain infrastructure documentation, including security standards,
procedures & definitions and maintain all technical documentation
relating to server/storage management. - Communicate
regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure
system integrity and security. - Establish
and maintain business relationships with vendors, consultants and other
outside entities providing services to the bank. monitor performance of
the SLAs to ensure that the server 7 storage stacks gets maximum value
from the services - Handle
queries from application/DBA support, resolve problems in a timely manner
and advice accordingly. - 24/7
availability for support of the bank’s mission critical systems. - Continually
monitor security events in the systems, take corrective actions and
generate reports for management. - Keep
abreast of latest security, legislation, regulations, advisories, alerts
and vulnerabilities and plan proactive actions accordingly.
Skills,
Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and
competencies:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
or related field from a recognized university. - Minimum
of 3 years’ experience in a similar role with hands on experience in
planning, systems analysis, design, support and development in server/storage/backup
infrastructure. - A
specialist in IT/ Engineering background with competences in EMC storage,
Linux, IBM AIX, IBM DS8800, IBM TSM and project management. - Excellent
knowledge of ICT system architectures, platforms and Infrastructure. - Strong
analytical skills; ability to analyze and correlate complex data. - Good
knowledge of various storage and server performance monitoring tools. - Ability
to effectively communicate complex technical issues. - Excellent
knowledge of the bank’s information security policy and the legal
implications.
If you
fit the profile, then apply today!
Please
forward your application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to
jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number USE/ICT/2016 by 13th
May, 2016.
Relationship
Manager – Diaspora Banking
Are you a self-driven individual with a proven track record to
exceed sales goals and customer expectations?
Are
you uniquely predisposed to deliver quality, convenience, friendly and
personalized service, quickly and efficiently to our Diaspora Customers?
We
have an exciting opportunity within our Retail Banking Department for the
position of Relationship Manager – Diaspora Banking.
Reporting to the Head – Diaspora Banking, the role holder will
be responsible for the growth of the Diaspora banking portfolio (Assets and
Liabilities) and maintaining an excellent customer service experience for the
customer through meeting the customers’ needs in a timely manner.
The Role
Specifically,
the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Own
and drive the Diaspora banking proposition through selling, growing
business and ensure that there is increased customer base, deposits,
earnings, facility utilization and usage of all bank products and
services. - Act
as a principal point of contact for the Bank’s relationship with a
designated portfolio of Diaspora customers and non-customers to all other
units as customer needs dictate. - Analyze
market intelligence across the global markets to facilitate
development/enhancement of innovative products and services offered to the
Diaspora customers. - Champion
and deliver world class customer service by ensuring quality service
delivery for customers within the bank’s Service Level Agreements. - Achieve
the set growth targets for the portfolio in terms of numbers and values
through pro-actively identifying cross-selling opportunities within own
portfolio of customers - Manage
Diaspora customer requests/transactions in compliance with the bank
policies, procedures and guidelines with zero tolerance to operational
risk & frauds. - Ensure
the existing customer relations are well maintained to achieve high
customer retention as well as building effective relationships with
branches and key support functions
Skills,
Competencies and Experience
The successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and
competencies:
- A
Bachelor’s degree in a business related field with at least 2 years’ sales
experience - Must
have worked in team oriented environments and with good relationship
management skills - Excellent
planning and organization skills as well as be an excellent communicator
with ability to set and meet stretching targets and strict deadline - Result
driven with a track record of demonstrable networking, selling and
influencing skills as well as ability to identify new opportunities - Demonstrate
a solid awareness in operational risk and quality in driving service
excellence - Excellent
interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality and
trusted relationships
This
position presents an excellent step to make highly valuable contributions as a
member of a growing team of talented professionals.
If you
fit the profile, then apply today!
Please
email your application in confidence to ijv@co-opbank.co.ke by close of
business on Wednesday, 11th May, 2016.
As
part of our ongoing development of the internal audit function, we are looking
to recruit a dynamic and commercially astute Internal Auditor.
If
you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact, this might be your dream job.
This is a high visibility role which provides the successful candidate with an
opportunity to contribute to the organization’s control environment and
exposure to many business areas.
The
successful candidate will also have an ideal opportunity to be an integral part
of the organization and to really make a difference.
Reporting to the Chief Internal Auditor, the Internal Auditor will be required
to perform information systems, operations and credit audits, both technical
and end-user across the Co-op Bank Group.
He/she
will undertake special investigations, provide advice to the business on a
broad range of issues as and when required, and support business growth &
process improvements while working closely with other departments and in line
with Internal Audit Methodology, processes, procedures and time frames.
The Role
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Utilize
extensive understanding of business activities to recommend scope and
objectives of assigned audits, execute audit procedures, perform detailed
analyses, reach sound conclusions, and document results for assigned audit
activities. - Participate
in the execution of multiple audit projects to achieve the scope, timing,
and objectives of each assignment while ensuring applicable regulatory
guidance is included in scope for assigned audits where applicable. - Proactively
identify risks, evaluate controls and make recommendations to improve
internal control and operational effectiveness and efficiency. - Analyze
and verify transactions and representations as well as performing review
of test work completed by assigned staff. - Prepare
excellent work paper documentation ensuring quality of such documentation
in accordance with professional standards, as well as establishing departmental
standards and deadlines. - Recommend
departmental improvements to automate procedures, methods, and standards
to improve departmental efficiency, productivity and quality. - Prepare
clear and concise recommendations for correction of unsatisfactory conditions,
improvements in operations, and reductions in cost and effectively gain
concurrence and support for recommended control improvements. - Facilitates
the communication of audit results and special projects via written
reports and oral presentations to management; - Assist
in the annual risk assessment process and generation of annual audit plan. - Identify
and analyze level of threat and potential risk to the organization’s
information assets - Ensure
that access to electronically stored corporate information is adequately
protected and managed appropriate to the risks - Test
adequacy and effectiveness of IS control measures and recommend corrective
measures to be undertaken in areas of weakness. - Perform
special audits as and when called upon and make maximum use of Computer
Assisted Audit tools e.g. TeamMate, ACL etc. - Assist
in training/mentoring of staff and develop and maintain the skills,
knowledge and expertise to make valuable contribution to the internal
audit team.
Skills,
Competencies and Experience
The
successful candidate will be required to have the following skills and
competencies:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Information Systems or Computer Science from a recognized
university. - Possession
of an MSc or other relevant postgraduate qualification will be an added
advantage. - Professional
Certification in IT Audit, Risk and Security e.g. CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC - Excellent
understanding of auditing concepts and practices with a minimum of 3
years’ experience in a management role in IT or IT Audit. - Skilled
in project management, and maintaining composure under pressure while
meeting multiple deadlines. - Demonstrable
knowledge in risk assessment and control concepts/methodologies. - Skilled
in negotiation and conflict management to resolve problems that may arise during
an audit. - Excellent
oral and written skills; a strong verbal communicator, analytical writer
and able to clearly and concisely convey personal observations of
processes, risks and controls. - Excellent
analytical ability both qualitative and quantitative to draw sound
conclusions coupled with demonstrated knowledge and proper application of
sampling techniques. - Excellent
attention to details and organizational skills.
If you
fit the profile, then apply today!
Please
forward your application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to
jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number IA/IAD/2016 by 19th
May, 2016.
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