KCB Bank Chief Executive Officer

Job Ref. MN 5485
 

Our client, the KCB, is a leading commercial banking group in the Eastern Africa Region, renowned for its diversity and growth potential.
 

KCB’s vision is to be ‘the preferred financial solutions provider in Africa with global reach’. 

The Bank currently commands the largest retail banking network in Kenya and has subsidiaries in Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
 

As a player in the global financial market, the Bank maintains working arrangements with correspondent banks throughout the world.
 

The Bank is now looking to appoint a dynamic, energetic and experienced strategist to join and lead a vibrant team committed to growing the Bank further in volume, efficiency, regional impact and profitability. 

The KCB Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is a member of the KCB Group Board.

Job Profile
 

The KCB Group CEO will be responsible for leading, managing and leveraging multi-national, multi-cultural teams to maximize profitability and shareholder value through business growth and sustainability while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.

This is a challenging opportunity to contribute to total economic value of the KCB group, and will involve the following:

• Coordinating the overall activities of the whole group to ensure achievement of its business plans.
• Identifying and managing all strategic imperatives professionally for the benefit of the Bank.
• Ensuring that there is an effective prudent risk management in place to provide continuous assurance and improvement in the quality of the Bank’s assets and liabilities.
• Driving and coordinating the initiatives, practices, corporate culture change and procedures for achievement of the group business goals.
• Implementing the Board’s decisions in a result-oriented and timely manner to achieve the Bank’s vision, mission, goals, objectives and agreed performance targets.
• Developing, nurturing and enhancing synergies within KCB Group for efficiency and effectiveness in attaining the Group objectives.
• Ensuring that there is continuous development of new and innovative profitable products.
• Continuously monitoring economic, business regulatory and other related trends to determine their potential impact on plans and operations of the Bank and initiating the necessary actions to safeguard the objectives and goals of the KCB group
• Leading a team of trained and talented professionals to progress the Bank’s business to be an all-round great regional bank.
• Promoting the Bank’s development of a positive corporate culture, ethical practices and sound sustainability goals.
• Promoting the Bank’s objectives of identifying and developing talents throughout the entire business.
• Developing and recommending to the Board both short term, medium term and long term strategies, business plans, and accurate annual budgets.
• Establishing effective internal monitoring and control systems, processes and procedures to execute  approved plans.

Person Profile

• A holder of a university degree with distinguished leadership, management track record at regional or international level and impeccable record of intellectual honesty.
• An analytical and passionate transformative change leader who will continuously push the bank’s business horizons.
• An energetic go-getter who will drive the bank through concrete performance targets.
• An experienced leader who must have managed blue chip banks or corporates with an asset base of at least US $ 3.5 billion.
• An experienced leader who must have managed large banks or corporates with subsidiaries or branches across several countries or continents. (Experience in Eastern Africa region is an added advantage).
• A proactive leader with a deep sense of foresight and ability to institute contingency strategies.
• A fluent English speaker with working knowledge of French or Kiswahili.
• A very attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidate.

Send your application in strict confidence by email only to recruit@manpowerservicesgroup.com so as to reach us by 12 Noon, (GMT+3) 19th October 2012.