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Looking for a finance job in Kenya? KCB Bank is hiring a Head, Business Performance skilled in strategic financial planning, performance monitoring, business analytics, and performance management framework execution.

Responsibilities or duties

Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.

Develop and implement processes for business planning, enterprise budgeting, enterprise performance monitoring and analysis, financial modelling and post investment review.

Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic performance reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.

Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats.

Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights and options to enable the business to make sound decisions.

Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements, with a focus on the key drivers of value in the enterprise.

Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics and corporate targets.

Review of IFRS9 model outputs, impairment drivers, and translating these for insights to business teams in a non-technical manner to inform business decisions.

Review of investment spend and operating costs for opportunities to extract cost efficient initiatives and inform return on investments.

Ensure timely and quality board and senior management performance packs.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

For the above position, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in a business-related field from a recognized institution; a master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• Be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Experience needed

Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in the finance field, with demonstrated management experience in the following areas:

• Financial analysis and performance management
• Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
• Business partnering
• Strategic financial planning and budgeting
• Stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
• Leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise

• Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.
• Develop and implement processes for business planning, enterprise budgeting, enterprise performance monitoring and analysis, financial modelling and post investment review.
• Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic performance reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.
• Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats.
• Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights and options to enable the business to make sound decisions.
• Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements, with a focus on the key drivers of value in the enterprise.
• Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics and corporate targets.
• Review of IFRS9 model outputs, impairment drivers, and translating these for insights to business teams in a non-technical manner to inform business decisions.
• Review of investment spend and operating costs for opportunities to extract cost efficient initiatives and inform return on investments.
• Ensure timely and quality board and senior management performance packs.

• Strategic financial planning
• Performance monitoring
• Business analytics
• Performance management framework execution
• Financial modelling
• Scenario building
• Business planning
• Enterprise budgeting
• Post investment review
• Commercial analysis
• Data analysis
• Performance reporting
• IFRS9 model review
• Cost efficiency analysis
• Return on investment analysis
• Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
• Business partnering
• Stakeholder management
• Team leadership

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field from a recognized institution
• Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the finance field
• Demonstrated management experience in financial analysis and performance management
• Demonstrated management experience in advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
• Demonstrated management experience in business partnering
• Demonstrated management experience in strategic financial planning and budgeting
• Demonstrated management experience in stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise