Corporate Banking General Manager Job Opportunity in Kenya April 2015
A leading commercial bank headquartered in Kenya with a growing regional presence is seeking to recruit a competent and highly motivated individual with extensive experience and abilities to support business growth in the following position:
General Manager – Corporate Banking
Ref: GMCB/4/2015
Ref: GMCB/4/2015
Job Summary: The incumbent will be responsible for growing the Bank’s relationships with large corporate clients and driving the Bank’s short and long term Corporate Banking strategy as well as managing department staff and resources.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Marketing and growing the Bank’s corporate business – responsible for maximising profitability and revenue for the segment
- Maintaining corporate customers’ relationships and enhancing the customer experience by ensuring regular customer contact/visits to foster relations and KYC while ensuring that customer facilities are well structured and risks mitigated through timely review of the customers’ business
- Retention of existing customers and growth of wallet share, in line with agreed targets
- Overseeing and enhancing cross selling opportunities of various products of the Bank
- Ensuring that business growth of corporate book, both funded and non-funded is ¡n line with the Bank’s targets
- Enhancing synergies within the Group in line with the policy framework and exploiting potential cross border lending opportunities
- Prospecting for new customers, both local and regional (subsidiaries) and establishing contacts with other Banks for prospective syndication business as well as cross selling of Bank’s /Group’s products
- Monitoring on an on-going basis the quality and performance of the department business book in order to maintain the asset quality
- Formulating and implementing the division’s business strategy as well as the annual budget and periodically reviewing performance against budget and periodically reviewing performance against budget
- Ensuring the department achieves its set business volume and profit targets. This includes monitoring activities of the business line; selection and deployment of human resources; determining business targets arid operating budgets; monitoring of activities; analysing performance viz a viz targets
- Executing Letters of Offer and Letters of Guarantees as per sanction powers
- Approving excesses and facilities within delegated mandates
Academic Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Business, Finance or its equivalent from a recognised institution; and Bachelor’s degree in a Business related field from a recognised institution.
Professional Qualifications
- Chartered Institute of Marketing diploma or its equivalent and Member of Associate of Kenya Institute of Bankers (AKIB) or its equivalent professional body.
Experience
- 12 years of Corporate Banking, 3 of which must have been at senior managerial level leading a team.
An attractive salary and benefits commensurate with the level of responsibility will be offered to the successful candidate.
If you believe you meet the above requirements, please send your application together with a comprehensive curriculum vitae indicating your qualifications, present position, current remuneration, contact and names of three referees.
Your application should reach the below address on or before 30th April 2015.
Please quote reference number followed by the position applied for in the application.
DNA 1805
P.O Box 49010-00100,
GPO, Nairobi
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.