Senior Specialist; Productivity & Efficiency at CRDB Bank

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Position: Senior Specialist; Productivity & Efficiency
Line Manager: Senior Manager: Results Management
Location: HQ
Department: Business Transformation

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct an organization-wide scan of the lost opportunities, that can support the bank to improve income and contain cost.
• Establishing practical standards on cost and efficiency levels in consideration of returns on high spending and reporting on the benefits realized on projects/investments in line with expectations.
• Drive the implementation of transformative efficiency and productivity initiatives as allocated to different units and create visibility at the senior management level.
• Collaborate with other business units to assess and uncover new opportunities to improve cost efficiency and productivity, from consultation advice to other stakeholder inputs of different aspects.
• Conducting In-depth financial analysis, including comparative banks’ performance analysis to uncover opportunities on how to effectively optimize Bank balance sheets for better results.
• Drive the change of spending culture and productivity patterns across the organization by infusing the efficiency and results management culture from traditional ways of working.
• Collaborate with the strategy team and other teams in the DBT unit, to develop and drive initiatives, actions, and targets that will harmonize and ensure the bank’s 5 years direction is achieved, from the implementation of strategic objectives, culture initiatives, vision, and mission to the attainment of undisputed leadership.
• Institute management report that will help to drive bank performance around, staff productivity, business efficiency, business units’ performance and benefit realized on major spending.
• Showcase teamwork and spearhead in self-drive to support other functions to achieve results.

Experience, Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Banking, Finance, economics or related field.
• Project Management Certification.
• CPT (T)/ACCA certification and master’s degree in a related field will be an added advantage of Accreditation in Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies and project management.
• Experience in productivity and efficiency management with a wider conversant of banking market dynamics
• Working within banking business activities, gaps analysis and diagnostic reviews to improve productivity.
• Able to analyze, review and present financial and data analytical reports to management meetings and/or business unit review sessions,
• 3 years or more experience dealing with bank’s productivity and cost/efficiency improvement, BSC practices/systems analysis in the banking industry with a strong tracking record of creating a positive impact to the undertaking endeavors.
• Extensive experience in working with others to elicit business requirements.
• Familiar with financial modelling and technique valuations.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the banking business.
• Strong understanding of Results Management rules, value management and operation efficiency.
• Strong understanding of banking activities, the bank’s products, priority function, industry dynamics, and customer trends.
• Self-driven with a results-oriented mindset.

Deadline: 26th September 2023

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