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Head of Digital Financial Services
2026-03-02T06:28:39+00:00
KCB Bank
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FULL_TIME
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
00000
Tanzania
Banking
Management, Business Operations, Computer & IT, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Advertising & Marketing
TZS
MONTH
2026-03-13T17:00:00+00:00
8

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Leadership

  • Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
  • Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
  • Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
  • Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
  • Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.

Governance and Risk Management

  • Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
  • Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
  • Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.

Product Development and Innovation

  • Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
  • Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
  • Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
  • Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.

Business Growth and Performance

  • Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
  • Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
  • Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
  • Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
  • Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
  • Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
  • Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.

Customer Experience and Service Excellence

  • Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
  • Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
  • Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
  • Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
  • Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.

Team Leadership and Capability Building

  • Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
  • Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
  • Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
  • Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
  • Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
  • Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
  • Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
  • Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
  • To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
  • Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type[1]

  • Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent RQ
  • Professional Qualifications IT background AA
  • Master’s Degree Business Administration AA

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required

7

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type[2]

Experience Area 1 (Channels support) 5 ES

Experience Area 2 (Customer support) 5 ES

Experience Area 3 (Banking Ops) 5 DE

Experience Area 4 (Digital Banking) 5

  • Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
  • Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
  • Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
  • Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
  • Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.
  • Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
  • Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
  • Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.
  • Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
  • Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
  • Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
  • Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.
  • Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
  • Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
  • Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
  • Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
  • Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
  • Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
  • Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.
  • Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
  • Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
  • Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
  • Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
  • Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.
  • Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
  • Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
  • Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
  • Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
  • Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
  • Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.
  • Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
  • Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
  • Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
  • To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
  • Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.
  • Digital transformation
  • Mobile banking
  • Internet banking
  • Agency banking
  • Cards
  • Emerging platforms
  • Business development
  • Partnership management
  • Revenue generation
  • Innovation
  • Customer-centricity
  • Governance frameworks
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Risk management
  • Cyber security
  • Fraud prevention
  • Data protection
  • Operational resilience
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Product development
  • Product launch
  • Emerging technologies
  • Fintech integration
  • APIs
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Digital payments
  • Business growth
  • Performance monitoring
  • Profitability analysis
  • Return on investment (ROI)
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Negotiation
  • Commercial arrangements
  • Digital ecosystem expansion
  • Business delivery
  • Customer experience
  • Service excellence
  • Customer journeys
  • Service availability
  • Uptime management
  • Incident management
  • Data analytics
  • Customer engagement
  • Personalization
  • Customer complaint resolution
  • Competitor analysis
  • Pricing strategies
  • Team leadership
  • Talent development
  • Succession planning
  • Collaboration
  • Sales stimulation
  • Product penetration
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent
  • IT background (Professional Qualification)
  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration
bachelor degree
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Vacancy title:
Head of Digital Financial Services

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Banking, Category: Management, Business Operations, Computer & IT, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Advertising & Marketing]

Jobs at:
KCB Bank

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, March 13 2026

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, March 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Leadership

  • Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
  • Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
  • Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
  • Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
  • Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.

Governance and Risk Management

  • Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
  • Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
  • Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.

Product Development and Innovation

  • Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
  • Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
  • Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
  • Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.

Business Growth and Performance

  • Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
  • Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
  • Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
  • Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
  • Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
  • Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
  • Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.

Customer Experience and Service Excellence

  • Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
  • Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
  • Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
  • Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
  • Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.

Team Leadership and Capability Building

  • Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
  • Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
  • Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
  • Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
  • Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
  • Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
  • Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
  • Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
  • To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
  • Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type[1]

  • Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent RQ
  • Professional Qualifications IT background AA
  • Master’s Degree Business Administration AA

Experience

Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required

7

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type[2]

Experience Area 1 (Channels support) 5 ES

Experience Area 2 (Customer support) 5 ES

Experience Area 3 (Banking Ops) 5 DE

Experience Area 4 (Digital Banking) 5

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Friday, March 13 2026
Duty Station: Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam
Posted: 02-03-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 02-03-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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