Principle Accountabilities

Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.
• Oversee monthly and quarterly performance reviews, variance analysis, and business insights for senior management.
• Ensure timely preparation and distribution of monthly rolling forecasts for business units and legal entities.
• Partner with business units to provide financial analysis and advisory support for strategic projects and investments.
• Ensure timely and accurate segment reporting.
• Own intra-company cost allocation frameworks and models.
• Own inter-company cost recharge frameworks and models and ensure tax efficiency.

Balance Sheet & Capital Management

• Manage balance sheet planning and capital optimization, including liquidity optimization in collaboration with Treasury and GM Finance.
• Ensure that the bank has an effective ICAAP.
• Own the Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) processes.
• Oversee preparation of ALCO, EXCO and board papers.
• Prepare debt funding pitch decks

Financial Controls & Governance

• Drive cost management initiatives, ensuring efficiency and alignment to strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain financial control frameworks across functions.
• Build strong financial governance processes that support compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure timely departmental policies reviews.
• Oversee model governance for all models developed and managed in Finance.
• Perform and oversee revenue assurance.
• Maintain and update KPIs tracker for the Finance division.

Accounts Payable, Receivable & Reconciliations

• Ensure vendors are paid timely and with optimal credit terms.
• Ensure GL reconciliations are timely and that outstanding issues resolved promptly.
• Ensure that the trial balance (TB) can be relied upon by all users.
• Ensure accuracy of the Fixed Asset Register and its associated depreciation schedules
• Ensure accurate maintenance of receivables records and reconciliations

Financial Information System

• Ensure implementation of set system improvements (SAP and its integrations)
• Collaborate with IT to ensure EoD processes are supportive of finance processes
• Ensure GL variance between systems is resolved on a timely basis

Decision Support

• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of dashboards and KPIs.
• Provide thematic guidance to modelling teams.
• Strengthen finance business partnership.
• Review quarterly competitor analysis and present to management.
• Create a roadmap for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Finance and collaborate with Innovations and IT teams.

Audits

• Facilitate internal audits
• Collaborate with Head of Financial & Regulatory Reporting to facilitate external audits
• Ensure closure of internal and external audit findings

Team Management

• Design a talent development program for the team
• Ensure time performance measurement and management for the team
• Mentor the team

Ad-hoc

• Any other duty as assigned from time to time by the Finance and HFC leadership

Key Competencies and Skills

• Results-oriented
• Strong negotiation skills
• High emotional intelligence
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Highly analytical
• Problem solving skills
• Good communicator & excellent presentation skills
• Team player

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Academic and Professional

• A business-related degree from a reputable institution preferably Finance, Accounting, Banking, data science or a related quantitative field.
• CPA(K)
• CFA, FRM, FRR, CIFA certifications will be an added advantage

Experience and Technical Skills

• A minimum of 12 years’ experience in banking with hands on experience finance, internal audit, external audit, financial risk management, strategy.
• 4 years should be at management level.
• Hands on experience in finance leadership
• Experience in board relations
• Experience in CBK relations