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Equity Bank is the region’s leading Bank whose purpose is to transform the lives and livelihoods of the people of Africa socially and economically by availing them modern, inclusive financial services that maximize their opportunities. With a strong foot print in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and now in DRC, Equity Bank is now home to more than 14 million customers – the largest customer base in Africa.
JOB POSITION: MANAGER CASHLESS DISTRIBUTION
Job Purpose:
In line with enhancing the uptake and implementation of a cashless distribution model in the distribution ecosystems and mobilize deposits, we seek to recruit a qualified, experienced, selfdriven, passionate and a team player to serve as the manager-cashless distribution. The manager will work with cashless officers, branches and the distribution stakeholders to offer a business solution to the market in their collections and payments. Will be required to approach corporates (anchors) in the ecosystem and propose solutions of collection, design workable strategies of achieving the same and cascade the solutions to the entire value chains with the help of cashless officers. Ability to prepare and present to high level managers and also communicate interpersonally and in group settings to drive value.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the cashless portfolio growth and scale up the product uptake in the market.
- Initiate, follow and build strong business relationships with the distribution ecosystems to drive value.
- To mobilize deposits and increase the deposit retention in line with the cashless set annual targets.
- To build, Manage and develop a high performance oriented cashless team.
- To promote product knowledge and conduct product trainings in all branches.
- To ensure 100% compliance to bank policies and procedures in all cashless onboarding.
- Take responsibility and give clear guidance and strategies of achieving the set targets.
- Responsible in Monitoring and evaluating the cashless data reports and ensure accuracy of the same.
- Create, maintain and grow a high synergy between the Cashless team. Agency Team and the Ecosystem financing champions.
Education / Experience / Skills & Competencies:
- Degree in Sales and Marketing/Business Management or related course
- 6+ years of sales and marketing/ distribution
- Good understanding of the Tanzania business environment
- At least 3yrs experience in a distribution or sales management position.
- Demonstrate an excellent interpersonal, presentation and customer facing skills.
- Good Team player and able to work with a diverse team.
- Good planning, organizing skills and keen to details oriented.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and still focus on high growth levels.
- Proven track record within sales environment
- Accustomed to working in a busy , fast moving organization
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Key Performance Indicators:
- Increase the deposits retention to TZs 10B as per the annual target.
- Increase the cashless accounts by 1680 new cashless accounts to close the year with a cumulative accounts of 2840 accounts.
- To grow cashless accounts turnovers to TZs 500B annually.
- To Link up the ecosystems to the relevant bank sectors or departments to enjoy at least 2 bank products every quarter.
POSITION: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (2)
Job Purpose:
The developer will serve as the subject matter expert for the technologies and solutions used in the development of the business applications and integrations.
The developer will work closely with project managers, team lead and business analysts in defining requirements /stories for system functions. Provides vision, expertise and technologybased solutions in long range planning in the area of systems design. Will utilise in-depth knowledge of technological alternatives and business requirements to recommend solutions that are user friendly, efficient and scalable. Ability to communicate in group settings as well as ability to collaborate within team and cross teams.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with stakeholders to provide product solutions and technical oversight for multiple concurrent projects, including sharing expertise on standards, guidelines, and design best practices for the solution based on industry accepted practices.
- Develop software applications according to the technical documentation and designs provided by the Business Analysts
- Ensure that the solution developed is in line with the coding standards.
- Translate workflow steps into business process activities and nested processes.
- Maintain and improve the performance of existing software
- Design and update database objects to support an application
- Recommend improvements to existing software programs as necessary
- Performs Unit testing level throughout the application development life-cycle.
- Ensures that code revisions are maintained in the Group’s source code repository.
- Maintain a coding style that conforms to that specified by the Lead, Software Developer.
- Develop release documentation for completed and tested applications/solution preparatory to go live. Collaborates with the Business Analyst to develop operational/technical/support documentation for end users where applicable Ensures that the application is ready for the User Acceptance Test (UAT) as per the test plan developed by the Business Analysts.
- Ensure that all software defects reported during the UAT are corrected before Go-Live.
- Carry out routine maintenance to applications as the need arises on the development environment only and make patches available for production as may be required.
- Constantly update technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.
- Perform Other duties / Special Projects as assigned
Skills Competencies:
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills – demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills Good communication skills and the ability to work well within tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills in business analysis, systems design, technical design and specification and implementation of major information and technical systems.
- Demonstrated broad knowledge of new technologies, development practices, architecture methodologies, and software quality practices.
- Demonstrable experience to work in a team undertaking the design, development, implementation, support, and administration of major information and technical systems.
- Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions. Good project management skills.
Education / Experience:
- Degree in Information Technology or related course
- 4+ years of software development and design experience
- 2+ years’ experience in Java (Spring), C#, HTML5. JavaScript, Python
- Experience of developing integrations on Oracle Fusion Middleware (BPEL, BPM, OSB) an added advantage
- High level knowledge of SOA frameworks, and web services integration via SOAP, XML. XSL, XSLT, XPATH, XQuery, WSDL, etc.
- Expertise in relational database concepts and database management systems.
- Expert understanding of object oriented programming and multi-threaded languages
- Good understanding of object oriented programming and multi-threaded languages.
- Exposure to SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle Database and MySQL experience highly desirable
- Solid experience in using design patterns
Key Performance Indicators:
- Increase the deposits retention to TZs 10B as per the annual target.
- Increase the cashless accounts by 1680 new cashless accounts to close the year with a cumulative accounts of 2840 accounts.
- To grow cashless accounts turnovers to TZs 500B annually.
- To Link up the ecosystems to the relevant bank sectors or departments to enjoy at least 2 bank products every quarter.
Method of Application:
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application with a detailed CV, stating your current position, e-mail address and telephone contacts, and copies of academic and professional certificates, quoting the Job reference and title in the subject field to TZRecruitment@equitybank.co.tz
To be considered your application must be received before January 21, 2020
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Equity Bank Tanzania has 14 branches located in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, Moshi. Dodoma, Mbeya, Zanzibar and Morogoro, with 2,654 agents spread across the country. Tel: +255 768985500 www.tz.equitybank.com
