KCB Group About us At KCB Group, our network is more than just a presence across East Africa—it's a powerful force for positive change, embodyin
KCB Group
About us
At KCB Group, our network is more than just a presence across East Africa—it’s a powerful force for positive change, embodying our purpose of being “For People For Better.” Our expansive reach across Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and Burundi creates a dynamic ecosystem where talent flourishes and opportunities abound.
Senior Manager, Youth Banking
Kenya
Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- The role focuses on developing and delivering innovative, youth-centered financial products and services that align with market trends and evolving customer needs.
- It drives digital engagement and customer lifecycle initiatives to enhance acquisition, retention, and overall youth segment growth.
- Through market research and data analysis, the role identifies opportunities, informs proposition design, and supports business case development for new offerings.
- It oversees product commercialization by coordinating go-to-market strategies, marketing campaigns, and performance reviews to maximize impact.
- The role collaborates with internal teams and external partners to ensure timely, compliant, and effective delivery of youth banking initiatives.
DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plan, design, and deliver youth-focused financial products and services in line with customer needs and market trends.
- Support the creation of reimagined digital engagement models to drive relevance and adoption.
- Translate insights into innovative solutions that strengthen the youth banking value proposition.
- Implement initiatives that improve acquisition, engagement, and retention across the youth segment.
- Monitor customer journeys and recommend enhancements to maximize lifetime value.
- Drive initiatives that strengthen brand affinity among youth customers.
- Conduct customer and market research to inform proposition design and positioning.
- Analyze behavioral and transactional data to identify gaps, opportunities, and emerging trends.
- Support business case development for new youth products and enhancements.
- Coordinate go-to-market planning and rollout of youth banking propositions.
- Partner with marketing and distribution teams to design and execute promotional campaigns.
- Monitor performance of launched products and recommend refinements to improve impact.
- Work with cross-functional teams (IT, Operations, Marketing, Risk) to deliver youth initiatives on time and within scope.
- Manage relationships with external partners, institutions, and digital platforms to enhance delivery.
- Ensure execution aligns with compliance, risk, and service standards
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Academic & Professional
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree Degree from a recognized university (RQ)
- Professional Qualifications Project management or business field (AA)
- Master’s Degree Business Administration (AA)
Experience
- Total Minimum No of Years Experience in Youth Related (RQ) -7years
- Proactive selling skills 7 years (RQ)
- Credit Underwriting Skills 5 years (ES)
- Customer Relationship management 7 years (ES)
- Banking Operations 2years (DE)
- Business research and product development 4 years (AA)
- Project management 2 years (AA)
RQ- Required
AA- Added Advantage
DE- Desirable but not Essential
ES – Essential
Cybersecurity Analyst
Kenya
Job Category: Management
Deadline: 30/01/2026, 23:59
Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: Kenya
Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, implement, and maintain data security controls such as data classification, labelling, encryption, and data loss prevention (DLP), across systems, applications, and cloud platforms.
- Develop and maintain data security policies, standards, procedures and Minimum-Security Configuration Baseline Standards in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and frameworks (e.g., Kenya Data Protection Act, ISO 27001, GDPR, and/or other relevant standards).
- Collaborate with the Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Operations Centre (CISOC) in the continuous monitoring and defense of the Bank’s infrastructure against cybersecurity threat.
- Support secure adoption of new technologies, applications, and platforms to ensure cybersecurity requirements are met before introduction to production environments.
- Lead the end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle for databases and datastores by executing assessments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, performing risk-based prioritization, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to remediate and continuously report on compliance.
- Support cybersecurity risk assessments and remediation by leveraging technical knowledge to remediate gaps identified by assurance teams such as Information Risk and Audit teams.
- Support internal and external audits related to data security and privacy.
- Continuous research and provide technical expertise across the different business and technical functions, conduct data security awareness and user training sessions across the group.
Academic & Professional
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree, BSc. IT / Computer Science or related field
- Master’s degree MBA / MSc (Added Advantage)
Professional Qualifications
I. Security certification such as:
- SC-401: Information Protection Administrator Associate CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor.
- CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
- CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner.
- CompTIA Security+
- ISO27001
- OSCP: Offensive Security Certified Professional.
- ETC
(At least one RQ)
II. Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)
- SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CyberOps Professional, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (Added advantage)
III. Oracle Database certifications in either OCP/ Oracle Database Security
- Microsoft Database certifications such as MCDBA (Added Advantage)
2. Experience
- 2 years experience in Cyber Security (Essential)
Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Kenya
Deadline: 06/02/2026, 23:59
Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: Kenya
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
- Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
- Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
- Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
- In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
- Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
- Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
- Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
- Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
- Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.
a) Academic & Professional
Education
- Bachelor’s degree Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
- Master’s Degree Business Administration or Project Management (Added Advantage)
Professional Qualifications
- ISTQB
- ISTQB Agile Tester Certification
- Certified Test Engineer (CSTE)
- Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)
- Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST)
- CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)
(Required)
Project Management
- PRINCE II (Practitioner)
- AgilePM
- PMI-ACP
- Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
(Added Advantage)
Experience
I. 3 years experience in: i. Software Quality Assurance (Required)
ii. IT Projects (Essential)
II. 2 years experience in: i. Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc) (Desired but not Essential)
ii. Software Applications & Support (Desired but not Essential)
iii. Software Development (Desired but not Essential)
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