British-American Insurance Job Vacancies

British-American is a leading financial services Group in the country offering a wide range of Insurance and Asset management services to individuals, small businesses, corporations and government entities.

British-American is a Global financial services company with offices in London, Mauritius, Malta, Uganda and Kenya. The Group has a long heritage, providing financial services since 1920.

Companies within the group have been successful in providing investment products and services and are market leaders in their respective jurisdiction.

As part of our growth strategy and to strengthen the team to achieve ambitious performance objectives, the Company wishes to recruit experienced, dynamic and innovative individuals to fill the following positions.

1. Corporate Sales Executive - General Insurance
Thika, Embu, Meru, Kisii
Four Positions

Ref: BAI/1/2011GI

This position reports to the Sales Manager — General Insurance

Job Purpose

Ensure full representation on General Insurance and other corporate products to clients and intermediaries.

Nature and Scope

The job holder is responsible for General Insurance Sale’s functions in their respective regions and its environs.

Key Responsibilities

• Service new business directly through intermediaries.
• Service existing business.
• Follow up renewals under his area.
• Identify and recommend new Agents/Brokers to Head Office for appointment.
• Liaison with Agents and Brokers.
• Issue and account for motor certificates.
• Undertake initial underwriting of business to ensure sound acceptance of risk .
• Handle customer complaints, written or verbal, and refer to head office where necessary.
• Credit control.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• University Graduate and or Good advancement in ACII.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in General Insurance with bias in underwriting, sales and credit control.
• Computer skills.
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills.

2. Corporate Sales Executive - Medical Insurance
Ref: BAI /2/2011GI

This position reports to the Assistant Sales Manager — Corporate Group Medical.

Job Purpose

• To work with the Medical Sales Manager to ensure that all production and Market share objectives are attained.

Nature and Scope

• The job holder is responsible for interacting with Brokers, British-American Financial Advisors and direct corporate clients — Main source of business.

Key Responsibilities

• Secure new business directly or through intermediaries.
• Ensure that accurate and competitive quotations are prepared and delivered promptly to prospective clients, brokers and agents.
• Process Tenders and avail required documentation on time.
• Ensure excellent customer service to enable the Company retain existing customers and attract prospective clients.
• Follow-up renewals to ensure business retention is optimized and the prescribed retention ratio is achieved.
• Continuously develop and expand network of brokers and agents.
• Train British-American Financial Advisors on the medical product to enable them sell effectively.
• Do presentations of our medical product to new and existing customers, and prospective clients.
• Gather marketing intelligence statistics to facilitate development of strategies to give the company a competitive advantage.
• Handle customer complaints, written or verbal.
• Assist in the product re-designing based on the intelligence reports.
• Enhance team work and liaison with Medical underwriting and claims department staff to ensure excellent services are offered to our clients.
• Present an excellent image of the Company.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• University Graduate.
• Good advancement in ACII.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Medical Insurance with bias in Medical sales.
• Computer Skills.
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills.

3. Systems Development Manager
Ref: BAI/3/2011ICT

Job Purpose

• The role has a leadership responsibility in ensuring effective, dynamic and efficient change of information technology platform in tandem with the technology changes required to implement the business strategy.

Nature and Scope

• The holder of the position reports to the Group ICT Manager.

Key Responsibilities

The job will involve:

• People management.
• Project management.
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for technology improvements that will lead to business efficiency gains and effectiveness.

Tasks will include:

• Assisting the Group ICT Manager in building a culture of high performance.
• Pro-activity.
• Business co-operation and continuous improvement within the area of programme delivery.
• The person will be tasked with tracking IT development budgets and KPIs.
• Through consultation promote adoption and use of company standards and processes.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Proven working experience in the following:
• Demonstrated track record for ERP solution delivery and cost reduction.
• Project Management.
• Systems Analysis/Programming.
• Knowledge of Oracle and MSQL,4th generation programming knowledge.
• 7 years’ minimum experience in managing multi-site development teams across concurrent projects.

4. Database Administrator / Business Intelligence Administrator
Ref: BAI/4/2O11ICT

Job Purpose

• To oversee all aspects of all business databases and providing business intelligence platform.

Nature and Scope

• The position reports to the Group ICT Manager.
• The DBA will be responsible for administration of all activities in the production environment as it pertains to databases on each database server.
• The job holder will also strategically design and implement BI software and systems, including integration with databases and data warehouses.
• This includes selecting, blueprinting, gathering requirements, designing and rolling out BI solutions to end users.
• The Business intelligence role is also responsible for ensuring high levels of BI availability through support functions and in-depth testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce the Group’s database standards, guidelines and operational policies and procedures.
• Review physical structures, review performance maintenance and utilities associated with each structure (i.e., REORGS, LOAD, UNLOADS).
• Review necessary storage media (DASD and Tape).
• Review SQL performance and Tuning.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• A first degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of development experience.
• Oracle database Certification, SQL Server, DB2, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting.
• Demonstrated Knowledge of Windows and Unix Operating systems.

5. Systems Analyst/Developer
Ref: BAI/5/201 1ICT

The System Analyst/Developer will report to the Systems Development Manager in ICT Department.

Job Summary

The Systems Analyst/Developer position requires strong business skills and would be responsible for reviewing, analyzing and occasionally modifying systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support application systems.

The incumbent will consult with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives.

The incumbent will also be responsible for writing documentation to describe custom configuration of applications and operating procedures to liaison with 3rd party application development consultants.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance the groups’ existing systems.
• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
• Investigate and resolve application functionality related issues and provide first level support and troubleshooting of groups’ existing systems.
• Assist network engineer with application installation and testing.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and identify modifications needed in existing applications to meet changing user requirements.
• Analyze data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions.
• Provides assistance and advice to business users in the effective use of applications and information technology.
• Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications including operations, user guide, etc.
• Produce technical documentation for new and existing applications.
• Assist in the creation of the system design and functional specifications for all new development projects.
• Serve as a liaison and facilitator between all business units to assist in addressing and resolving IT software issues.

Qualifications:

• The candidate will have a first degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• A minimum of S years of technology experience with at least 3 years hands-on technical roles in the field and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Background in Microsoft.NET, Visual Basic, Excel Word, Outlook and HTML.
• Good working knowledge skills with Microsoft 01*1cc Products, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project.
• Extensive knowledge of data processing, hardware platforms, and enterprise software applications.
• Technical experience with systems networking, databases, Web development, and user support.

6. Business Systems Developer
Ref: BAI/6/2011ICT

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Systems Development Manager, the Business Systems Developer is charged with translating functional business requirements to technical requirements and developing software solutions to business challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate functional business requirements into technical requirements.
• Lead the development and testing of the applications. Evaluate requests for new or modified applications, to determine feasibility and compatibility with current systems.
• Develop data integration interfaces for various systems.
• Maintain and develop software modules using .Net Framework and Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Develop platforms for automation of business processes and self-service management reporting.

Qualification, Knowledge, Experience

• First degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of development experience.
• In depth knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers.
• In depth knowledge ofASP.NET, VB.Net.
• Outstanding knowledge of database design, maintenance and manipulation.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks.
• Experience with Crystal reports and SQL Reporting services.
• Microsoft developer certifications MCPD/MCSD will be an advantage.

7. Business Systems Analyst
Ref: BAI/7/2011ICT

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Business Systems Manager, the Business Systems Analyst is charged with supporting the Information Systems needs of the organization by analyzing business challenges to identify and implementing solutions towards business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Key responsibilities will include liaising with users to identify changes that are necessary for the systems to continue supporting the business strategy.
• Providing robust analysis and critique the identified changes that will address the intended business needs while factoring seamless integration with existing solutions for the overall fit.
• Working with the other business analysts to implement and maintain enterprise-wide data warehouse solution for consolidated corporate reporting and analytics.
• Assist in automation of business processes, problems or potential problem areas and recommends solutions to better meet customer needs including special needs, designs or enhancements to interface with existing systems as needed.

Qualification, Knowledge, Experience

• Candidates must be a graduate in information Systems or related discipline and have at least 3 years’ experience in business systems project related assignments including but not limited to: - Project Management, Systems analysis and design, Programing, Database design and administration Systems integration and User training.
• In depth knowledge of Windows server and desktop operating systems.
• In depth knowledge of SharePoint Server and desktop operating systems.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite including Visio.
• Microsoft certifications MCTS/MCSE will be an advantage.

8. IT Analyst (2)
Ref: BAI/8/2011ICT

Job Purpose

• To assist in the daily operations of business systems to the company, assist users in data extraction for reports and provide first level support to users on software, database administration and deal with general IT department administrative tasks.

Nature and Scope

• The position reports to the Senior IT Analyst, The job holder is responsible for providing Prqgramming/technical support, data extraction, data analysis, user management, including training of users and basic administrative tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Data extraction and analysis.
• Conducting and providing clients with technical support and customer service physically and over the telephone on any issue that may arise.
• Database administration, maintenance and management on Oracle Based Systems.
• Diagnosis, repair and maintenance Business system software problems.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology OR related discipline.

9. Portfolio Manager- Equities
Ref: BAA/9/2011FM

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Portfolio Manager — Equities will be responsible for analyzing investment portfolios to determine asset allocation opportunities to maximize return or minimize investment risk, review and implement the underlying investment guidelines and structuring the portfolios accordingly.

Key Responsibilities

• General portfolio management responsibilities of all equity asset classes including review analyze and re-balance client portfolios on an ongoing basis to maintain compliance with model portfolio.
• Maintain portfolio composition by monitoring individual security and sector deviations from index.
• Executing equities securities transactions in a timely and efficient manner.
• Analyze economic cycles with the view to determine whether growth or value methods of stock selection are most appropriate at any given point in time.
• Gather and conduct research relating to equities and provide qualitative and quantitative research coverage for equity market.
• Perform data and information analysis on market trends across all markets.
• Serve as the lead representative of the company research in the market.
• Prepare various investment reports.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics or Mathematics with strong academic record.
• Masters degree in a quantitative discipline would be an added advantage.
• Minimum five (5) years working experience in financial markets with hands on exposure to equities securities.
• Professional qualification in Finance/Investment e.g. attained CFA status or actively studying for CFA.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with strong knowledge of investments.
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
• Strong team player with excellent leadership skills.

10. Internal Audit Assistant
Ref: BAI/3/2011/IA

Reporting to the Internal Auditor, the Internal Audit Assistant will be responsible for assisting the Internal Auditor in improving the Group’s accounting, administrative and internal controls and ensuring compliance with the laid down policies and procedures as well as compliance with relevant legislation.

The job holder will also assist in ensuring that the Group’s resources are optimally utilized and that the assets are safeguarded.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out detailed audit tests on group operations based on standard audit programmes as directed by the Internal Auditor.
• Gather adequate audit evidence to support findings and suggestions for improvement.
• Discuss the findings with the auditees so that only unresolved issues appear in the final report.
• Maintain adequate and properly referenced internal audit working papers and internal audit files.
• Assist the Internal Auditor in the audit of branch offices to ensure company income is completely and properly accounted for.
• Assist the Internal Auditor to carry out ad hoc special assignments.
• Write detailed draft and final reports including findings, implications, recommendations, management comments and implementation schedule for review by the Internal Auditor.
• Perform post — implementation reviews and report on implementation status.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting or Finance Option) or a related discipline.
• Computer literacy in spreadsheets, word-processing and accounting packages.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Team building skills.

11. Information Systems Audit Assistant
Ref: BAI/4/2011/IA

Reporting to the Information Systems Auditor, the job holder will be responsible for assisting the Information Systems Auditor in improving the Group’s information systems controls and compliance with the laid down policies and procedures as well as compliance with relevant legislation.

The job holder will also assist in ensuring that the Group’s ICT resources are optimally utilized.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out detailed audit tests on all the Group’s automated systems in accordance with the approved Annual Audit Plan.
• Reviewing existing information systems controls on all areas of the Group’s operations and making recommendations for improvement.
• Carrying out pre — implementation reviews of projects requiring acquisition of new IT software and Hardware and assessing their technical viability.
• Carrying out post implementation reviews of newly installed information systems and system changes within the Group.
• Reviewing security controls on all the Group’s information systems.
• Reviewing internal controls on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Write detailed draft and final reports including findings, implications, recommendations, management comments and implementation schedule for review by the Internal Auditor.
• Perform post — implementation reviews of previous audit recommendations and reporting on implementation status.
• Attend to other relevant duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors degree in information Systems from a reputable University.
• Good technical knowledge and skills in MS Windows, MS SQL and Oracle Database Management Systems, Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Intranet and client/server environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Team building skills.

An attractive remuneration package will be offered to successful candidates.

In-house training and a professional office environment will also be offered.

If this position is of interest to you, please email your detailed curriculum vitae and covering letter explaining how you would meet the demands of this challenging position giving full names and contacts of 3 referees to hr@british-american.co.ke.

Hard copies will not be accepted.

Quote the reference number as the subject of the application.

Applications should be received not later than 1st March 2011.