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Britam Project Manager Jobs in Kenya


Introduction

  • The role holder will be responsible for managing the initiation, planning, execution and closure of the Siebel CRM & Digital Channels initiatives for Britam Group. The two initiatives are being delivered using Agile project management methodology with various components already in production.
  • The Digital channels initiative is designed to transform Britam by providing revolutionary online and mobile distribution/service channels including online portals, mobile apps and USSD.
  • The Siebel CRM initiative aims at consolidating all Britam Group customer interactions into one homogenous platform providing a truly 3600 view of each customer across all channels, lines of business and back office systems.

    Responsibilities

  • Undertake project initiation activities including preparing a project charter and business case for assigned projects;
  • Translate the project mandate into a detailed concept document, defining benefits, analysing interested parties, and defining deliverables;
  • Responsible for providing strategic project planning, including resource planning, preparing a comprehensive project schedule and project budgeting;
  • Mobilise project team consisting of internal business users, IT experts, business partners and third party suppliers;
  • Lead the project team in execution of project activities ensuring required quality standards are adhered to. Coach and mentor respective project team members to ensure delivery as and when required;
  • Vendor management to ensure project is delivered on time, on scope and within budget;
  • Project risk management including carrying out risk assessments and designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies;
  • Develop and execute a communication and change management plan for the project;
    Develop and execute a stakeholder management plan to ensure project success;
  • Update the project plan and other project governance artefacts as the project progresses, assess risk, resolves issues and reports/escalates accordingly to project stakeholders;
  • Manage project CAPEX and OPEX budgets;
  • Provide periodic project status reports to project stakeholders;
  • Employ business analysis, system design and system testing methodologies to manage quality of project deliverables ensuring business requirements are fully met;
  • Ensures appropriate handover of the project to the business & IT support teams including the documentation of lesson learned and a project close-out report;
  • Ensures proper integration (by appropriate communication and documentation) of the deliverables into existing IT infrastructure and business processes; and
  • Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.

    Qualifications

  • University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent
    Project Management Expertise: Certification in AGILE, PRINCE2 or PMP would be an added advantage
    Minimum of 4- 6 years’ experience in a similar role
  • Experience in managing an Oracle CRM implementation in a financial services organisation
  • Business analysis and process design experience
  • Ability to customise project management processes, tools, and templates as required for the project
  • Expert on Microsoft Project Management Tools.
  • Excellent analytical and organisation skills, including the proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment and manage multiple concurrent projects.

    How to apply

    Interested candidates should apply online by 27th October, 2017

    For more information and job application details, see; Britam Project Manager Jobs in Kenya




    Britam Accountant, Payments Jobs in Kenya

    Responsibilities

  • Prepare documentation to facilitate payment of any items, including receipting invoices and scanning of documents where necessary;
    Initiating invoices in ERP for payment on daily basis;
  • Verification of all invoices and ensuring that all documentation relating to payments are in accordance with company policies;4. Ensure accuracy in withholding the applicable VAT and taxes;
  • Accurate update of vendor bank account;
    Ensure all invoices are received in the accounts payable office from all Britam drop points;
    Handling invoice/ payments exceptions in a timely manner;
  • Managing shareholders dividend and coupon interest replacements on a regular basis;
    Weekly and monthly review of Purchasing Orders (POs) reports so as to monitor the progress of invoice payments and share the necessary information with all the stakeholders;
  • Observe strict adherence to the
    company’s payment processes and procedures manual; and
  • Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.

    Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a business related field
    CPA(K) or other similarly recognized accounting profession qualification
  • 2-3 years of accounting experience in a similar role
  • Knowledge of ERP AP system and/or experience of using Oracle Financials would be an advantage
    Strong computer and business solutions software skills
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
    Analytical skills

    How to apply

    Interested candidates should apply online by 23rd October, 2017

    For more information and job application details, see; Britam Accountant, Payments Jobs in Kenya




    Britam Senior E-Channels And SOA Support Analyst Jobs in Kenya

    Responsibilities

  • Work with the application support team for web services and Enterprise Services Bus (“ESB”) solutions;
  • Support Oracle SOA, SOA composite services, Oracle Service Bus and custom Java applications;
  • Monitor the current e-channels applications that includes Self-care, APPs & USSD Channels;
  • Managing and ensuring availability of all the Groups e-channel applications;
    Deploy, configure and validate SOA composite applications;
  • Assist to develop business requirements, implement effective strategy and initiatives to enhance channel features and customer experience;
    Generate and provide reports related to e-channels applications;
  • Configuration, clustering, load balancing and tuning of middleware and e-channel platforms;
    Configuration of LDAP and SSO for Fusion middleware and related products Administering, monitoring and securing SOA Composite Applications and Instances Programmatically manage SOA Composite Applications;
  • Diagnose problems with SOA Composite Applications;
  • Manage interfaces between the applications, other IT Operation teams, IT Dev group, and other corporate teams
  • Install and maintain DEV, SIT, and Production Java applications, J2EE application servers, and assure optimum performance of the applications;
  • Diagnose performance/connectivity problems and errors. Provide 3rd tier support for production systems;
  • Ensures that all SLAs are met;
  • Document all the applications;
  • Manage and configure Oracle Weblogic; and
  • Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.

    Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field
  • 4+ years’ of IT experience including Java, J2EE, XML, JavaScript and DHTML
  • 3+ years’ Oracle experience: Oracle BPEL 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g, Oracle ESB 11g, J2EE including Weblogic, Web Services, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, , Oracle Database 11i, SOA process performance tuning
  • 2+ years’ of IT experience in implementation of middleware applications.
  • Background in business process analysis, system requirements, as well as data modeling and detailed functional design.
  • Certification in Oracle SOA and Oracle BPM
    2+ years’ experience with web servers and application servers e.g. Apache, IIS, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, and WebLogic.
  • Familiarity of Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), EBS Analytics, WebCenter Portal, Single Sign On (Oracle Identity Governance Suite and/or Oracle Access Management Suite Plus), and building dashboards in relation to SOA activity is a plus.
  • Certification in Fusion, IBM WebSphere or TIBCO Middleware
  • Highly skilful in installation and administration of clustered H/A middleware environments
  • Knowledge in other areas of Oracle Fusion Middleware, like Oracle SOA Application Gateway, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    UNIX user skills, preferably AIX.
  • Experience with e-Channels applications will be an added advantage.
  • Working experience of preferable Fusion Middleware
  • Understanding of Java EE technologies, particularly JAX WS, JAX RS

    How to apply

    Interested candidates should apply online by 27th October, 2017

    For more information and job application details, see; Britam Senior E-Channels And SOA Support Analyst Jobs in Kenya

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