Financial Reporting Centre Employment in Kenya

9) Financial Reporting Centre Systems administrator Employment in Kenya

Systems administrator
Vacancy No. FRC/10/2017
Number of Posts: One (1)

a) Position Description Reporting to the Director IT Services, the System Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. He/she is expected to participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the IT infrastructure and also provide IT support to project teams.

b) Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners.

Take lead in engineering of system administrative-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

Install new/ rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

Install and configure systems such as support GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications.

Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

Contribute to and maintain system standards.

Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage FRC's resources and provide economies of scale.

Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.

Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary. Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

Provide Tier III and other support.

Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.

Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.

Apply Operating System patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

Add and configure new services as necessary.

Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.

Maintain operational, configuration and other procedures.

Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Maintain data-centre environmental and monitoring equipment.

c) Educational Qualifications and Work Experience

A Bachelor’s degree with a technical major, such as Engineering or Computer Science.

Four (4) to six (6) years’ system administration experience in a financial institution, government agency, international organization or relevant private sector organization.

Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in UNIX and Microsoft.

d) Additional Skills and Competencies

Understanding of the FRC's responsibilities together with a working knowledge of Kenya's anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regime.

Track record of providing intellectual leadership, delivering high quality results with notable achievements.

Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems that support GIS infrastructure; Linux, Windows and Application systems that support Asset Management.

Financial and business management knowledge and skills.

Excellent proven interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise staff.

Effective decision making, problem solving and mediation skills.

Demonstrated ability to share skills and knowledge with others.

Proficiency with office computer equipment and software.

Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and manage high workloads

10) Financial Reporting Centre Database administrator Employment Positions in Kenya
Database administrator
Vacancy No. FRC/11/2017
Number of

Posts: One (1)

a) Position Description Reporting to the Director IT Services, the database administrator is responsible for the maintenance, performance, integrity and security of FRC's database by identifying and solving database requirements. He/she will also be involved with the planning and development of the database as well as troubleshooting issues on behalf of the users.

b) Duties and Responsibilities

Manage FRC's database, including maintenance, reporting, queries, and data clean-up projects with the goal of providing current, consistent and accurate data.

Establish the needs of users and monitoring user access and security.

Monitor performance and managing parameters to provide fast responses to front-end users.

Map out the conceptual design for a planned database.

Refine the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model.

Consider both back-end organisation of data and front-end accessibility for end- users.

Further refine the physical design to meet system storage requirements.

Install and test new versions of the Database Management Systems (DBMS).

Maintain data standards, including adherence to the data protection laws.

Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata).

Control access permissions and privileges.

Develop, manage and test back-up and recovery plans.

Ensure that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly.

Participate in capacity planning.

Work closely with IT project managers, database programmers and multimedia programmers.

Communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security.

Commission and install new applications and customize existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose.

c) Educational Qualifications and Work Experience

Bachelor degree in computer science; in computer software/computer systems engineering; electronics; or information technology.

Four (4) to six (6) years’ system administration experience in a financial institution, government agency, international organization or relevant private sector organization.

Database Administration/System Engineer certification will be an added advantage.

d) Additional Skills and Competencies

Understanding of the FRC's responsibilities together with a working knowledge of Kenya's anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing regime.

Track record of providing intellectual leadership, delivering high quality results with notable achievements. Good communication, teamwork and negotiation skills.

Problem-solving and good analytical skills; Familiarity with the main data manipulation languages and the principles of database design.

Flexibility and adaptability.

Good organizational skills. The skill to work to tight deadlines under pressure.

The ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

Awareness of business IT requirements.

A willingness to keep up to date with developments in new technology.

A commitment to continuing professional development (CPD).

Extremely organized, detail oriented and able to keep accurate records and unsure proper follow up.

An understanding of information legislation, such as the Data Protection laws.

How to apply
Interested applicants who meet the above requirements are advised to submit their applications via email to the email address esdfrc@kpmg.co.ke quoting the reference number of the vacancy on the subject line.
The application shall include:
a) A detailed CV
b) Current and expected remuneration
c) Contact information of three references
d) Scanned Copies of academic and professional certificates Applications close 25 August 2017 at 1700 Hrs The financial reporting centre is an equal opportunity employer.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be required to bring the following documents during the interviews;
a) Copies of clearance certificates from the organizations mentioned above.
b) Original copies of academic and professional certificates.