Job Title: Finance Business Partner-Business Solutions & Marketing
Organisation: DFCU Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
DFCU Bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of innovative products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of Germany) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC and UDC, each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.
Job Summary: Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, Responsible for supporting the function in driving value creation, managing the business performance reporting of the domain to support the delivery of business financial targets and acts as points of contact for the business colleagues covering the function and to provide and interpret financial information to all stakeholders of the business for informed decision making.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assemble and analyze Business Solutions & Marketing (BSM) data as well as Macro, Industry and market specific data into information and avail to management in a timely fashion for strategic, tactical and operational requirements.
- In charge of reviewing and challenging BSM capital investment projects to ensure viability, consistency with Business unit and overall Bank’s strategy, monitoring post implementation of the projects for the delivery of committed benefits.
- Get involved in the budgeting and forecasting process for the BSM domain providing analytical support of drivers and processes of the This involves provision of historical individual and business performance facts necessary for objective performance goal setting that drives BSM Business performance.
- Provide monthly detailed analysis of actual achievements against budgets/forecasts at product This involves clear articulation of NII and NFI mover for price, volume, product mix and currency depicting the trend and forward looking.
- Provide detailed monthly analysis on channel performance including profitability analysis for Card acquiring (ATM, debit cards, Credit cards), Bancassurance among others
- Design models for tracking the cost of serving customers at different channels to drive efficiency and value for This includes determination of cost per transaction, cost per customer served, cost per revenue generated etc. on each channel.
- On a monthly basis, provide product performance reports with insights on performance drivers and how to spur growth.
- Carry out Revenue Assurance on a monthly basis to ensure income leakage is managed. This involves management of data integrity and accuracy from various reporting systems, application of approved product tariffs etc.
- Drive for real-time predictive analytics to balance intuitive decision-making and data-driven insights to monitor product performance, how to better serve customers, streamline operations, manage risks and ultimately drive strategic performance. This involves utilization of interactive data visualization tools like Power Bl etc that enable business insights to be shared in a format that is easily understood by decision makers, in turn enabling better, faster operational and strategic decision-making.
- Through integration of data analytics and financial analysis knowledge, support other business partners/data analytics and business teams in interpretation of financial information to generate power Bl dashboards to support real time performance management, incorporating assumptions to forecast performance and drive decision making.
- Ensure effective and excellent communication and working relationships with colleagues in the department and the bank in general.
- Ensure the process of planning/forecasting and reporting is fully coordinated and the Business Head owns the numbers before reporting to Management and or Centre.
- Ensure there is alignment on all financial reports for BSM across different stakeholders including the BSM chief, CFO/Executive Director, Managing Director especially during the weekly catch-up meetings and other function heads like Credit, legal, compliance The key measure of success is the level of forecasting accuracy and timely communication.
- Provide honest, direct and constructive feedback to fellow team
- Share knowledge experience and best practice with team members and other Finance
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Post graduate qualification in finance e., ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA.
- At least 3 years’ work experience preferably in financial services, Management Consulting or value for money auditing/evaluation.
- Technical and practical skills in accounting and
- In depth understanding of short-, medium- and long-term strategies, goals and objectives setting
- Excellent
- Detailed understanding of Managing for Value
- An appreciation of the external economic, political, legal and regulatory environment and their impact to the business.
- Interpersonal and communication
- Ability to think creatively and identify innovative
- Up to date knowledge and understanding of accounting technical issues (International Accounting Standards/lFRS, etc).
- Highly numeric/strong analytical and problem-solving
How to Apply:
If you believe you meet the requirements as noted above, please forward your application to the link below:
Deadline: 31st July 2025.
NB: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36