Our client, a licensed Deposit Taking Sacco headquartered in Kisii Town, is seeking to recruit a qualified and highly motivated individual to fill the position of a Branch Manager.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the individual will be responsible for the administration of the members’ personal accounts and posting of financial transactions. 

Tasks and Responsibilities  

• Manage operational activities at the branch including resourcefulness of the staff.
• Reconciliations of FOSA bank accounts together with banker’s cheque and control accounts.
  
• Produce reports of monthly disbursement of advances.
• Ensure processing of internal and external standing orders is properly done
  
• Verify the accuracy of the treasury cash movement throughout the Sacco
• Ensuring proper daily updating of the treasury register
  
• Ensure proper handling of members’ inquiries and issues at the branch
  
• Ensuring funds transfers are properly done
• Ensure proper and timely processing of members’ salaries
• Managing the mobile banking process
  
• Approval of banker’s cheques transfers
  
• Ensuring membership withdrawals are properly done
• Ensure the accuracy of recordings for FOSA transactions
• Act as the primary custodian of the strong room and treasury
• Guide staff to deliver on branch strategic goals and targets to ensure branch success
• In charge of branch resources
• Mapping and scoping the business opportunity within the Sacco environs, including profiling the business activities within the locality of the Sacco to identify potential business opportunities
• Customer calls to set up meetings with potential customers with a view to establishing new sales opportunities for holistic solutions to the customers
  
• Ensure timely and effective loan approval process within set limits, by presenting appraised loans for approval and approving the same in the system 

Minimum Qualifications and Attributes  

• Bachelor’s in a business-related course.
• Membership in a professional body is desirable  
• A minimum of 5 years of working experience in a financial institution (three years must be in  operations at a supervisory or management level)
• Sound knowledge of Banking and Sacco laws and regulations  
• A person of integrity, team player with effective communication skills 
• Strategic thinker with good commercial judgement and ability to identify economic  opportunities in changing environment and capitalize on them
• Sound judgment and decision-making ability on lending across all sectors
• Customer-focused – striking a solid balance between external and internal customer orientation.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and team management skills

How to apply  

Interested and qualified applicants are requested to click on the link below and fill out the online application form and submit it by 11th July 2023. Any applications received after the closing date shall not be accepted. 

https://forms.office.com/r/TjEST6cdFZ 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us by 20th  July 2023, consider your application unsuccessful.