Website: Website http://ke.equitybankgroup.com/

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Job Purpose:
As Systems Site Reliability Engineer Manager, you will lead and support a team of SRE engineers who are working to identify challenges, analyze causes and apply corrective action to ensure that our systems are reliable, scalable and performant as per agreed service level objectives.
Reporting to the Principal SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Lead, you will be a part of the team responsible for helping to support 24×7 uptime and availability of production mission-critical services within the Bank. You will help to create more consistent, automated environments across all applications or services, proactively test and tune all aspects of the platforms, streamline CI/CD processes, monitor, and respond to system notifications and alerts and continually work to optimize and improve the performance, security, and reliability of our systems.
Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Lead SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) initiatives in your areas of focus
Mentor and support the members of the team to achieve high levels of performance
Lead the identification and establishment of the service level indicators to support SLOs (Service Level Objectives)
Take ownership of the availability, stability, resilience, and system / service health
Provide technical leadership in initiatives to improve availability, stability, resilience of our services
Take leadership in incident response activities to restore services
Collaborate with Dev teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
Participate in architecture design, platform management, and capacity planning exercises.
Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

Qualifications And Skills

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
5+ years’ experience as a SRE/DevOps Lead
Experience in managing SRE/DevOps/Software engineers
Strong oral and written communication skills
Attention to detail and strong troubleshooting skills
Demonstrable experience in Containerization-Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Demonstrable experience in CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, circle CI, Jenkins etc.
Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible)
Familiarity with Linux and UNIX systems and command line system administration such as Bash, VIM, SSH (secure shell).
Basic scripting skills (preferably Golang, bash, shell, etc.,)
Experience in monitoring and analyzing infrastructure performance using standard performance monitoring tools – Dynatrace, Azure Application insights, Prometheus, SolarWinds
Good understanding of networking concepts e.g., Network routing, Load balancing, and Networking protocols, a base knowledge of TCP/IP, with an understanding of HTTP and DNS
Experience in programming (structured and OOP) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, .NET, and JavaScript
Knowledge and proven hands-on experience in large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as Kafka and Redis will be an added advantage

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October 28, 2024
Regional Manager- Asset Finance IPF Growth Champion

Job Purpose;
The Relationship Manager will support the business to achieve its goals and objectives as outlined in the strategy of the Sector, while ensuring full compliance to bank policy, business, and statutory regulations.
He/she will champion, unlock, and ensure the growth of a quality Asset Finance book within the various bank defined segments, industries, and/or the region(s) allocated, through liaison with the bank’s business partners and branches, in line with the bank’s CSF number 4.
Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:
As the Growth Champion/ Regional RM, he/she is charged with implementing policies and programs that support the Bank’s overall strategic direction in Asset Finance and Insurance Premium Finance (IPF). The roles will include;

Building new and maintaining existing good rapport with external partners e.g, Motor vehicle and Equipment dealers, Insurance Companies, and business associates to unlock leads and ensure flow of business to the bank, through the branches.
Working on existing ecosystems (value chains) in liaison with the larger SME team and other business segments/ branches in the real economy and ensuring a holistic customer-centric business relationship approach, to exploit and generate business to the bank.
Maintaining and strengthening existing relations with other internal/external business partners, sectors, and clients, to ensure full exploitation of cross selling opportunities for bank products.
Generate leads for the upper SME and Corporate businesses across the bank defined economy sectors like Education, Health, Manufacturing, Energy, Transport & Logistics, etc.
Offering Support and mentorship to branches in customer engagement, appraisal and closure, while maintaining strong relationship management.
Carry out continues marketing intelligence on competition and providing feedback to the sector.
Ensuring SLAs are honoured, and acceptable TAT levels observed for optimal customer experience.

Qualifications

Minimum of a First Degree from a recognised institution,
At least 32 years of age,
Minimum 4 Years’ experience in a bank at Assistant Management position, preferably in SME related relationship management.
Experience in Asset Finance, Marketing or Sales qualification will be an added advantage.

Essential Knowledge

Has a good understanding of the Industry Asset finance Structure.
Well versed with the local vehicle and equipment Market landscape.
He should exhibit an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness.
Ability to mentor, guide and transfer knowledge to the team.
An understanding of the loan credit process will be an added advantage, though not mandatory.

Key Critical Competencies

A Team player with Strong marketing and sales skills,
Grounded in Relationship Management.
Business and current affairs awareness,
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills,
Excellent planning skills,
Goal oriented with ability to work under minimal supervision,
Excellent interpersonal skills,
Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing,
Social/outgoing and likes travelling,
Demonstrates high standards of integrity,
Presentable

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October 28, 2024
Senior Supply Chain Category Manager – Technology Category Specialist Business Analyst SCM, Facilities & Administration Management

Equity Bank is one of the region’s leading banks whose purpose is to transform the lives and livelihoods of the people of Africa socially and economically by availing them modern and inclusive financial services that maximize their opportunities. With a strong footprint in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and DRC Congo, Equity Bank is now home to over 12 million customers – the largest customer base in Africa.
Currently, the Bank is seeking additional talent to serve in the role outlined below within the Procurement Department.

Job Responsibilities
Procurement Category Governance

Identify, head, and oversee complex sourcing Technology projects consisting of software, hardware, and maintenance.
Ensure apt stakeholders are involved in IT procurement decision process.
Respond to specialized user groups requirements consisting of satisfaction with vendor selection and service.
Recommend advice concerning with identification and establishment suitable parameters.
Provide optimum terms and conditions, estimate and resolve execution barriers on time.
Develop and maintain professional business relations with key external and internal stakeholders.
Identify needs, reduce unwanted product and service demand.
Ensure to accomplish IT procurement business goals and objectives.
Ensure engagement of main stakeholders early for strategic sourcing process.
Perform activities steadily maintaining objective and transparent approach every time.
Coordinate and head enterprise broad standards and parameters settings.
Develop and maintain IT supplier base with input from internal procurement business partners.
Ensure to develop and maintain communally beneficial strategic relations with Technology vendors across the Group.
Define and head key complicated projects to implement procurement strategies.

Supplier Performance Management

Responsible for Group IT supplier performance evaluation and monitoring
Provide support to business functions in managing the contract execution and ensuring compliance with contractual SLA and KPI’s
Manage supplier dispute resolutions
Manage the supplier satisfaction survey process

Contract Negotiation & Management

Implements procurement strategies and conducts negotiations for technology requirements across the group
Negotiates agreements to support total business requirements rather than focusing on lowest-price options
Engages and collaborates with Legal department appropriately for contract database management.
Creates various types of contracts or agreements that can be used to accomplish the bank’s commercial & technical goals

Supplier Relationship Management

Liaise with Finance to ensure timely payments of
Effective follow up & liaison with vendors for timely availability of material
Ensuring timely feedback/ response to Queries
Closely coordinating between End user and Vendor

Budgeting & Reporting

Produce regular reports on performance by Procurement category assigned and provide comprehensive management information and in-depth analysis when requested including spend analysis, savings secured and potential savings – for forecast and budgets
Develop and execute annual departmental cost optimization targets for the annual Budget process.
Reporting weekly on on-going tender activities for the category

People Development

Ensuring that the Procurement team receives the motivation, training, and development, coaching and guidance to enable them to keep abreast of latest developments and achieve their maximum contribution.

Qualifications

University Degree with MBA as an added advantage
Professional qualification (e.g. CIPS) is an added advantage
IT related certification is an added advantage
Length of minimum Procurement & Logistics experience – 5 years’ experience
Length of minimum management experience – 3 Years

Essential Knowledge

Proven skills and experience in Procurement Category Management
Extensive experience in Technology category procurement at a group level is preferred but not mandatory
Excellent knowledge of procurement systems or ERP and Microsoft Office is necessary

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October 28, 2024
Collections Officers

THE PURPOSE / OBJECTIVES OF THE JOB
The Objective of Debt Collection Officer is to monitor loan, overdrafts and credit cards portfolio allocated to him/her to ensure its quality is in line with the bank’s projections and that any variations are promptly addressed. He/ she is to properly plan and execute accurate collection of customer’s accounts in arrears including calling up customers to ensure minimal slippage of loans to the next classification, He/She is responsible for timely and maximum recovery of loans in arrears in as little time as possible and with minimal cost.
The Debt Collection officer will have to be polite and sensitive towards customers while at the same time remaining committed to their purpose with persistence.
Excellent communication skills and a sense of urgency are extremely important for success in this task.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES

Adhering to set policies and procedures, demonstrate good customer service skills while initiating outbound calls and receiving inbound calls from customers for collections and consultation purposes.
Negotiate on phone, email follow ups and branch visits for account resolution and payments, and accurately input and documents actions within the collection systems while maintaining performance and productivity standards
Walk with the customers through keeping track of accounts allocated to you to identify the outstanding arrears and calling customers to inform them for payments.
Analyse accounts in arrears and negotiate payment plan with customers as promptly as possible.
Notarize discussion and agreement with the customer and maintain follow up date.
Maintain up-to-date customer contact information in the collections systems.
May be required to support other queues to facilitate teamwork in the department.
Escalate and assists other team members with calls as needed.
Serves as a resource/subject matter expert and may provide training to fellow team members
May be required to initiate external contact with customers and may perform advanced loss prevention activities (field customer visits and account settlement) or administrative work.
Regularly Share Loan Arrears reports with Branch officers and management for Collections coordination purposes
Encourage the culture of saving by encouraging customers to make regular deposits for savings and not only making deposit to pay the loan.
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS

Excellent communications skills, both orally and in writing.
Strong interpersonal skills to be able to relate and follow up loan arrears.
Business awareness to be able to align collection to current business trends.
Must be organized, efficient, and able to work independently
Ability to effectively manage one’s time to complete work according to established deadlines. The ability to prioritize tasks to make the best use of time.
Principled and self-confident.
Positive attitude.
Ability to work with minimal supervision even when under pressure.

QUALIFICATIONS;

University degree or equivalent
A mean grade of C+ and above in KCSE exams with C+ and above in Mathematics, English/Kiswahili and Proficient at working in/for any geographical region
Computer Literacy

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October 28, 2024
Learning Management System Administrator

The Learning Management System (LMS) administrator is responsible for providing technical support of the Group’s learning platform. This position will manage and support the existing Learning Management System with more than 6000 users
REPORTING & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The LMS Specialist reports to the Manager learning and development. This position works closely with the Learning Managers, Learning Coordinator, HR Business Partners, Team Leaders, departmental learning representatives, Information Technology system team and directly engages with learners.
The installation of all system updates, upgrades, integrated tools, and other software associated with the Equity Academy platform
Management of the learning platform including curation of content, update of training materials, updating the e-library, refreshing look and feel of the system, enhancing user experience on the platform
User Management:

Creates user logins as needed and assigns user permissions.
Creates and manages user structures including the creation of user groups and learning cohorts.
Manages course enrollment including progress tracking.
Act as Tier 1 support for learners needing support to access or complete courses

Course Management:

Manage the upkeep, review and refresh of existing online courses and related content
Support the delivery of hybrid in-person and online training programmes, publishing and archives online or blended learning courses, assigns training curricula, and adds and deletes resources.
Populates course information and assigns learners.
Develops and analyze reporting data for ongoing access to learning information/courses, generates standard and custom reports.
Creates and manages the overall course structure and sets up course programs based on specifications from the instructional designer.
Manages tracking of course revisions and history.
Builds online assessments and evaluations in LMS for courses.

Troubleshooting:

Provides troubleshooting assistance for users regarding logging in to the LMS and accessing courses.
Troubleshoots and resolves issues relating to system functionality and software systems.
Serves as point of escalation for support issues, which may include interaction with LMS vendor and other vendor support services.
Reviews and monitors system performance.
Develop and implement innovative ways of evaluating knowledge transfer to learners
Implement reporting mechanisms that evaluate the uptake, output, and outcomes of digital learning in Equity
Maintains and tracks technical procedures to ensure the security and integrity of systems/networks.
Collaborate on surveying the needs from learners and sharing this feedback to be actioned as appropriate
Analyze course enrolments and completion rates and implement strategies to increase both and monitor for learners’ progress and utilization including campaigns, tessers, bit sized learning
Be responsible for the LMS platform and vendor relationship, maintaining awareness of the marketplace and new/emerging platforms.
Contribute on emerging design, development and implementation strategies and tactics for digital learning.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field
3+ years’ experience working with Learning Management System platforms as a developer or administrator (and ideally a combination of both), including end-user support
Knowledge of and experience with variety of web design technologies such as HTML; Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and exposure to Moodle system will be an advantage
Familiarity with course design and development
Coursework and/or certifications relating to learning management system administration preferred
Social media or knowledge management experience
Experience working in the financial industry will be an added advantage

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Tech-savvy: comfortable diagnosing and solving technical problems (e.g. using Chrome Developer Tools, editing HTML and JavaScript)
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written); the ability to interact and collaborate effectively with people of diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
Strong organizational & planning skills with keen attention to detail: ability to handle multiple tasks and details efficiently while meeting deadlines.

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October 28, 2024
Data Engineer Senior BI Developer Data Scientist

Job Purpose:

Reporting to Head Data Science, the Data Engineer will be responsible for ensuring proper execution of their duties and aide in building the organizations data collection systems and processing pipelines. Provide oversights and expertise to Data Engineering practice that is responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business’s data platforms and pipelines.
The role holder will support the infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to support the delivery of end-to-end solutions to business problems through high performing data infrastructure.
S/He will be responsible for expanding and optimizing the organizations data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimizing data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

Support data analyst, data scientist and Senior data engineers, ensuring proper execution of their duties and alignment with the Company objectives.
Provide Data Engineering expertise and responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business’s data platforms. Required to draw performance reports and strategic proposals form his gathered knowledge and analyses results for senior members of the data science team.
Own and extend the business’s data pipeline through the collection, storage, processing, and transformation of large data- sets and oversee the process for creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture and creating databases optimized for performance, implementing schema changes, and maintaining data architecture standards across the required databases.
Oversee the assembly of large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements and align data architecture with business requirements.
Oversee, design, and develop algorithms for real-time data processing within the business and to create the frameworks that enable quick and efficient data acquisition. Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods.
Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
Extract data from source systems using querying languages such as SQL and provide to data science team members
Develop and maintain data pipelines and applications
Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimising into an innovative industry leader.
Monitor the existing metrics, analyse data, and lead partnership with other Data and Analytics teams in an effort to identify and implement system and process improvements.
Utilise data to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Acts as a subject matter expert from a data perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to data engineering and the use thereof. Provide guidance in terms of setting governance standards.
Ensure proper data governance and quality across all developments

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelors degree in Statistics,Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field.
3 to 5 years experience in Technology handling data monetization; Including; big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc. Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark- Streaming, etc. Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
Ability to wrap Machine learning models around API
Knowledge of Software engineering
The candidate must also have a proven and successful experience track record of leading high-performing data analyst teams leading through the successful performance of advanced quantitative analyses and statistical modeling that positively impact business performance.
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
Ms Office/Software: Outstanding skills in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, which will all be necessary for the creation of both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations, for senior data science management, executives, and stakeholders.
The candidate must also demonstrate exceptionally good skills in SQL server reporting services, analysis services, PowerBI, integration services, Salesforce, or any other data visualization tools.
Technological Savvy/Analytical Skills: Technologically adept and especially demonstrate an understanding of database and computer software.
Must also be highly skilled in statistical and modeling packages such as SAS, Statistica, Matlab, R, visualization and other advanced analysis tools. He will also be an expert in data management programming such as SQL, PL-SQL, and Python as well as being familiar win the workings of motion-tracking data and time-series analyses.
Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate for this position will be a team-builder, be result-oriented, be proactive and self-driven requiring minimal supervision, be open and welcoming to change, be a creative and strategic thinker, have innovative problem-solving skills, be highly organized, have an ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks prioritize and meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate calmness in times of uncertainty and stress.
People Skills: a people person who is able to form strong, lasting, and meaningful bonds with others people. This will make him an approachable and trustworthy individual who junior personnel readily follow and who senior Data and Analytics executives and stakeholders trust and who’s insights they give credit to, making execution of his duties much easier.

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October 28, 2024
Senior Auditor

The Role:
Reporting to the Senior Audit Manager, the role holder will be responsible for ensuring the Bank has effective financial, operational and information systems controls, adequate and effective risk management processes and ensure observance of good corporate governance practices.
Key Responsibilities:

Ensure routine audits are methodically planned for and executed as per the audit plan;
Develop programs and work plans for evaluation of internal controls and ensure they meet audit standards and assignment objectives;
Lead audit teams during fieldwork and in conduct other ad hoc reviews as assigned;
Identify business risks and control weaknesses and recommend appropriate mitigation measures;
Appraise the soundness, adequacy, application and efficiency of financial, operational and information system controls established to mitigate business risks;
Ensure audit issues are discussed with process owners and their action plans and target dates agreed on;
Prepare timely and quality audit reports in line with auditing standards.
Issue tracking and validation of audit issues to ensure they are addressed within agreed timelines.

Qualifications

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

Graduate in either business or IT related studies;
CPA (K) or ACCA and CISA;
Minimum three years audit experience in a reputable audit firm or in a commercial bank;
Excellent report writing, oral communication, logical and analytical skills;
Excellent working knowledge of computer assisted audit techniques, data analytics and Teammate;
Team player with good interpersonal skills;
Able to work with minimum supervision;
Good team leadership and supervision skills;
Strong problem solving skills;
Good knowledge of the banking industry and the regulatory framework; and
Open minded with the ability to learn in a dynamic environment, possesses good commercial awareness and knowledge on international best practice standards in financial reporting (IFRS), IIA Standards and corporate governance.

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October 28, 2024
Assistant Manager Human Resource -South Sudan

Responsibilities for the HR Business Partner Job

Develop specific people agenda to support business strategy
Ensure staff productivity by implementing performance management and reward strategy
Manage staff retention through attrition trend analysis and advising appropriate interventions to minimise business impact.
Review manpower plans for allocated business units and ensure that they are updated as appropriate.
Participate in the acquisition of talent by ensuring the right job profiles conducting interviews and onboarding.
Support the General Manager in formulating and implementing value adding strategic HR Functional plans that deliver business results
Support the General Manager and in liaison with the Centre Of Excellence colleagues to deliver best practice, customer and solution focused HR function, on:

Performance Management
Rewards Management
Recruitment, Retention And Contract Management
Training Needs Analysis And Capability Building
Employee Inductions And Deployment
Talent Management and Succession Planning
Change Management

Provide professional and timely employee relations advice and guidance to managers and colleagues. Provide coaching and support as required, and be comfortable influencing and challenging where appropriate.
Interpret and provide advice on HR policy and variations across the Business Unit or Division, supporting managers in the practical implementation of HR policies, employment legislation and best practice.
Provide advice and guidance for disciplinary hearings and other types of hearings and where appropriate offer advice and guidance to the panel.
Support in managing organizational change, redundancy and redeployment, in line with legislation, policy and good practice.
To develop the competence framework and ensure the development of the right skills to support business performance
To coordinate and influence the development of a performance culture through effective implementation of integrated performance management with appropriate measures of success.
Co-ordinate and at times administer the training and development projects and plans (activities include training needs assessments and mitigations)

Qualifications

Degree in Business Management or related field with ideally a HND in HR
Knowledge of HR with a minimum of deep knowledge in 2 HR practice areas
Ideally 3-5 years’ work experience within the HR function directly in, or closely supporting, executive and/or line operations.
Service Orientation -responsive to client needs, questions and concerns in an accurate timely manner.

Skills Requirements and Attributes

Assertive and able to challenge the status quo.
Highly driven with ability to set stretching goals for self and team while continually pushing for results.
Analytical skills, strong people management skills and customer focus with proven ability to build and sustain effective relationships across the organization
Ability to communicate effectively at different levels and across cultures
Attention to details and follow through on assignments to completion

Complexity and Judgement

Accumulate bits of information to diagnose and anticipate business challenges. Trends are noticed and proactivity applied in support of Business strategy.
Plan and carry out sequential projects while considering contingencies and alternatives.

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equitybank.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Business Performance Manager

Job Purpose
As the Business Performance Manager, you will be responsible for monitoring existing and new business initiatives, strategy execution, and undertaking performance reporting. The role assists and supports the Group CIO Payments Director to manage and monitor the strategic operations of the team and all initiatives in-flight per the Payments business strategy, through the establishment of routine robust reporting. The position also provides support and assistance in the reporting and monitoring of day-to-day execution activities including the number of projects on-track, outstanding audit items, outstanding risk issues etc.
Qualifications
Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Develop, produce, and deliver presentations to senior leadership.
Provide support to the Group CIO Payments Director in achieving the unit’s Strategic Plan including reviewing performance against the strategic objectives and tracking the team’s work plan by division.
Lead in developing business performance scorecards, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) goals, analyses and reviews for regular reporting on the team’s performance. KPIs will also reflect the efficiency, effectiveness, and continual improvement of service delivery.
Provide recommendations for driving enhanced performance using business change models to estimate current process capabilities, analyse performance measures, identify improvements, and quantify outcomes.
Coordinate inputs on planning and performance from the various Payments Tech Business departments.
Prepare a monthly performance pack and prepare minutes with follow up actions emanating from the monthly performance meeting.
Prepare quarterly performance reviews for senior management.
Work with the Data Office to develop, inspect, mine, and model data to raise productivity, improve decision making and identify product/market opportunities to gain competitive advantage.
Work with the Research and Development team to keep abreast with and where agreed, adopt latest innovation trends e.g., solutions/work efficiency models etc.
Work closely with the technical product management team to analyse critical product delivery practices, identify efficiencies attainable through process alignment and/or improvement.
Coordinate the closure of key audit and risk issues with respective departmental heads, and ensure the team is aware of key fraud and risk requirements.
Prepare an action log for weekly stand-up meetings and make follow-ups for action implementations and updates.
Provide support to the Group CIO Payments Director in the preparation and coordination of submissions as required (business planning proposals, resourcing, budget updates).
Assist with the unit’s budget preparation and monitoring, including preparation of reports to key stakeholders.
Establish and maintain communication links/processes/systems, and drive cross-functional collaboration with relevant key units and senior stakeholders e.g., the Group CIO’s office.
Contribute to department/ad hoc tasks.
Degree level qualifications in business and/or project management or a related discipline.
Min. 5-10 years working experience and/or a proven track record with performance management and business planning/management (financial management and KPI reporting experience).
Minimum three years supervisory or managerial experience.
Experience in development of budgets, schedules, and performance standards.
You have strong analytical skills, a passion for numbers.
Advanced skills in developing captive presentations, with experience using visualisation tools.
Ability to generate error-free reports, charts, and graphs.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships across a matrix organization, responding quickly to change and adapting/operating in an ambiguous environment.
You must be strong on coordination, have good interpersonal skills and teamwork capabilities as well as individual drive.
Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to persuade, influence, negotiate, and make formal presentations in meetings and training environments.
You are pro-active and focused on execution and can communicate across all levels of the organization.
Furthermore, you should be comfortable with meeting short deadlines and can deliver a quality product in a timely manner.
Knowledge of performance management strategies and tools.
Understand the project management lifecycle and ability to track and report against milestones in a professional and consultative manner.
Advanced proficiency level in Microsoft Office, MS Project, Visio, web-based and job specific software applications.
10+ years of professional experience.
5+ years of professional experience in business performance management.
Must demonstrate an understanding of financial services.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is required.

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equitybank.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Senior Data Engineer

Qualifications
Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

Oversee activities of the junior data engineering teams, ensuring proper execution of their duties and alignment with the Company objectives.
Provide oversight and expertise to the Data Engineering that is responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business’s data platforms. Required to draw performance reports and strategic proposals form his gathered knowledge and analyses results for senior EDO leadership.
Own and extend the business’s data pipeline through the collection, storage, processing, and transformation of large data- sets and oversee the process for creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture and creating databases optimized for performance, implementing schema changes, and maintaining data architecture standards across the required databases.
Oversee the assembly of large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements and align data architecture with business requirements.
Oversee, design, and develop algorithms for real-time data processing within the business and to create the frameworks that enable quick and efficient data acquisition. Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods.
Build analytics tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimising into an innovative industry leader.
Monitor the existing metrics, analyse data, and lead partnership with other Data and Analytics teams in an effort to identify and implement system and process improvements.n
Utilise data to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Acts as a subject matter expert from a data perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to data engineering and the use thereof. Provide guidance in terms of setting governance standards.
Responsible for performing thorough testing and validation in order to Ensure proper data governance and quality across EDO and the business as a whole.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

Master’s degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field.
8 to 10 years Experience in Technology handling data monetization; Including; big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc. Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark- Streaming, etc. Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
The candidate must also have a proven and successful experience track record of leading high-performing data analyst teams leading through the successful performance of advanced quantitative analyses and statistical modeling that positively impact business performance.
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
Ms Office/Software: Outstanding skills in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, which will all be necessary for the creation of both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations, for senior data science management, executives, and stakeholders.
The candidate must also demonstrate exceptionally good skills in SQL server reporting services, analysis services, Tableau, integration services, Salesforce, or any other data visualization tools.
Technological Savvy/Analytical Skills: Technologically adept and especially demonstrate an understanding of database and computer software.
Must also be highly skilled in statistical and modeling packages such as SAS, Statistica, Matlab, R, visualization and other advanced analysis tools. He will also be an expert in data management programming such as SQL, PL-SQL, and Python as well as being familiar win the workings of motion-tracking data and time-series analyses.
Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate for this position will be a team-builder, be result-oriented, be proactive and self-driven requiring minimal supervision, be open and welcoming to change, be a creative and strategic thinker, have innovative problem-solving skills, be highly organized, have an ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks prioritize and meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate calmness in times of uncertainty and stress.
People Skills: a people person who is able to form strong, lasting, and meaningful bonds with others people. This will make him an approachable and trustworthy individual who junior personnel readily follow and who senior Data and Analytics executives and stakeholders trust and who’s insights they give credit to, making execution of his duties much easier.

Apply via :

equitybank.taleo.net

October 28, 2024