Head, Business Performance Job KCB Bank

Job Title: Head, Business Performance

Date Posted: 13/07/2026

Job Type: Full Time

Employer: KCB Bank

Industry: Finance

Salary: Open

Location: Nairobi

Country: Kenya

Deadline: 24/07/2026

Summary:

Looking for a finance job in Kenya? KCB Bank is hiring a Head, Business Performance skilled in strategic financial planning, performance monitoring, business analytics, and performance management framework execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the financial modelling activity for strategic business opportunities, and initiatives using a range of modelling and scenario building tools, ensuring rigorous testing of assumptions and risks to aid high quality decision making by the business.
• Develop and implement processes for business planning, enterprise budgeting, enterprise performance monitoring and analysis, financial modelling and post investment review.
• Oversee the business planning and budgeting cycle, including budget development as well as periodic performance reviews with business unit wide reforecasting.
• Together with the business unit leaders, undertake thorough strategic and tactical commercial analysis of business opportunities and threats.
• Draw reliable and timely financial and non-financial data and information together from a range of sources and provide thorough analysis, insights and options to enable the business to make sound decisions.
• Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements, with a focus on the key drivers of value in the enterprise.
• Building a performance management culture through implementation of robust budgets, metrics and corporate targets.
• Review of IFRS9 model outputs, impairment drivers, and translating these for insights to business teams in a non-technical manner to inform business decisions.
• Review of investment spend and operating costs for opportunities to extract cost efficient initiatives and inform return on investments.
• Ensure timely and quality board and senior management performance packs.

Qualifications

For the above position, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in a business-related field from a recognized institution; a master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• Be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in the finance field, with demonstrated management experience in the following areas:
• Financial analysis and performance management
• Advanced use of business intelligence tools such as EDWH, SQL, SAP BI, and Power BI
• Business partnering
• Strategic financial planning and budgeting
• Stakeholder management of diverse calibre of stakeholders
• Leading and managing teams across various levels of financial expertise

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