NMB Bank Plc is recruiting for six Head Office positions across credit, finance, retail banking, relationship management and operational risk. The vacancies include Credit Analyst, Manager Finance & Control, Product Manager Assets, Relationship Manager; Parastatals, Senior Finance Analyst and Senior Specialist; Operational Risk MIS & Data Analytics.
The positions require relevant professional experience in banking, finance, accounting, credit, product management, relationship management or risk, depending on the role. Application deadlines run from 31 August to 11 September 2026, and applications are handled through NMB Bank Plc’s official careers portal.
Current vacancies
Credit Analyst
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 18-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 01-Sep-2026
Role overview
The Credit Analyst is responsible for ensuring timely and quality assessment of proposals for new and existing credit facilities using sound credit and financial principles. The role assesses lending requests and counter-party credit risk while recommending appropriate terms and conditions to manage the bank’s exposure.
Main responsibilities
- Assess and evaluate requests for new and existing credit facilities using sound credit, financial and policy principles.
- Determine whether credit proposals meet required criteria and whether counter-party credit risk is within acceptable parameters.
- Independently recommend appropriate credit proposals and terms or conditions needed to manage exposure.
- Review business information to understand profitability, value drivers and associated risks.
- Defend professional credit judgement without negatively affecting business relationships.
- Use industry and market information to identify threats affecting existing and prospective clients.
- Work with business counterparts to improve credit-proposal quality and turnaround time.
- Share responsibility for business recommended for credit.
- Recommend appropriate remedial action where deteriorating exposure is identified.
- Observe applicable service-level agreements without compromising the quality of credit proposals.
Knowledge and skills
Candidates should understand lending to industry sectors such as mining, tourism and agriculture together with their related regulations.
The role also requires:
- Excellent understanding of credit and associated risks.
- Knowledge of bank credit products.
- Detailed knowledge of credit-analysis techniques.
- Strong analytical and numerical ability.
- Communication and presentation skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Proven interpersonal skills within a business or credit environment.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Economics. Finance, Business or related fields.
- Master’s degree in business studies is an added advantage.
- Banking certification(s) is an added advantage.
- At least 3 years’ proven experience in a Credit role within the banking sector.
- Prior Banking experience in lending to MSE and SME will be an added advantage.
Manager Finance & Control
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 21-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 04-Sep-2026
Role overview
The Manager Finance & Control is responsible for accurate recording and reporting of financial transactions, cost analysis, budgeting, budgetary control and the efficiency and effectiveness of payment processes.
Main responsibilities
- Manage accounting operations including charts of accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost analysis and month/year-end processes.
- Ensure financial transactions, systems and procedures comply with local and international regulations, accounting principles and standards.
- Advise management on financial matters and the impact of local and international financial-reporting standards.
- Work with Senior Managers on financial forecasting, stakeholder engagement, annual budgeting and bank strategy.
- Monitor General Ledgers and cost-centre budgets and engage cost-centre owners on identified variances.
- Ensure invoices and staff claims are processed within agreed service levels while maintaining reliable records and audit trails.
- Resolve queries involving P2P, GL access, refunds and reversals within agreed turnaround times.
- Follow up receivable accounts, including intercompany and government accounts, to clear outstanding items.
- Support Finance Analysts and Senior Finance Analysts in understanding finance processes and departmental objectives.
- Monitor the Finance Risk Register and ensure controls remain effective and operational.
- Support compliance with finance processes, procedures and policies.
- Contribute to staff training, performance management and coaching.
Knowledge and skills
Candidates should understand financial control and management together with the application of bank products, policies and procedures.
Technical requirements include:
- Financial management.
- Financial accounting.
- MS Excel.
- Power Point.
- ERP-P2P.
- BI.
- Flexcube system.
Behavioural competencies include information monitoring, decision making, communication, customer focus, facilitating change and managing work.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business studies, Accountancy, Finance or related fields.
- Professional qualification in Accounting (CPA/ACCA or its equivalent) will be an added advantage.
- Master’s degree in business studies is an added advantage.
- Postgraduate education in Banking and/or Banking certification(s) is an added advantage.
- At least 4 years’ experience in Financial Management and Accounting with proven track record of leadership experience in medium to large organizations.
Product Manager Assets
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office, Hq
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 17-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 31-Aug-2026
Role overview
The Product Manager Assets is responsible for asset-product development, management and performance within Retail Banking. The position covers product development, launch preparation, performance monitoring, profitability analysis and product enhancements.
Main responsibilities
- Develop, implement and manage a compelling Retail Banking portfolio of asset products.
- Ensure new products are properly communicated before public launch and that branches and relevant stakeholders receive appropriate awareness and training.
- Ensure new products comply with controls and regulations, use a customer-centred approach and are fairly priced.
- Monitor and assess new-product performance against projections, targets and budgets.
- Analyse and manage system faults affecting product performance.
- Ensure approved product changes and enhancements are implemented within agreed timelines.
- Monitor asset-product quality against acceptable bank thresholds.
- Support innovation within Retail Banking asset products.
- Manage internal stakeholder and business-partner relationships when introducing new or existing products.
- Conduct regular competitor reviews of Retail Asset Product offerings.
- Conduct profitability analysis to assess product performance against targets.
- Identify product issues and resolve them proactively.
- Oversee product-feature enhancements and revamps in response to customer needs and market competition.
- Provide analytical support during product launches, campaigns, business reviews and strategic projects.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements and data-governance standards.
Knowledge and skills
The role requires:
- Knowledge of report construction, executive summaries and briefs.
- Strong understanding of the product lifecycle.
- Business planning and project-management skills.
- Strong analytical and numerical capability.
- Credit knowledge.
- Written and oral communication skills.
- Standard computer skills.
- Interpersonal and networking skills.
- Negotiation and report-writing skills.
- Presentation, coaching and training skills.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business/Accountancy/Economics/Finance or any other related field.
- Any course or training in product development is an added advantage.
- 3 years of experience in the banking sector, specifically within Credit or Asset Products.
Relationship Manager; Parastatals
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office, Hq
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 28-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 11-Sep-2026
Role overview
The Relationship Manager; Parastatals manages and grows the Salaried Workers Loan portfolio within parastatal institutions. The role focuses on acquiring new schemes, increasing penetration within existing schemes, maintaining portfolio quality and guiding Direct Sales Staff.
Main responsibilities
- Identify, negotiate and onboard new parastatal schemes in line with the bank’s SWL growth agenda.
- Deepen penetration in existing schemes through regular engagement with Human Resources and Payroll officers.
- Conduct employer visits, presentations and financial-literacy sessions to increase SWL awareness.
- Build and maintain relationships with decision-makers within parastatal institutions.
- Prepare scheme-penetration plans with measurable milestones.
- Lead, coach and provide daily support to Direct Sales Staff to achieve acquisition and disbursement targets.
- Monitor DSS productivity, including applications, disbursements and conversion rates.
- Take corrective action where sales performance requires improvement.
- Conduct joint employer visits with Direct Sales Staff.
- Ensure DSS follow compliance standards, ethical sales practices and documentation requirements.
- Monitor the SWL portfolio with a focus on growth, portfolio quality and minimal non-performing loans.
- Follow up payroll deductions, reconciliations and arrears with employers.
- Identify and escalate risks relating to scheme performance.
- Produce daily, weekly and monthly reports on parastatal and DSS performance.
- Conduct competitor analysis and use employer and customer feedback to recommend improvements to products, processes and market positioning.
Knowledge and skills
Candidates should demonstrate:
- Microsoft application skills covering Excel, Vision, Word and Publisher.
- Coaching skills.
- Customer focus.
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Confidence and presentation skills.
- Understanding and interest in financial and banking products and markets.
- Ability to explain complex information clearly.
- Good sales and negotiation skills.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in business related studies.
- A minimum of 4 years’ banking experience in Relationship Management and/or Loan Portfolio Management.
- Proven track record in driving lending penetration and portfolio growth is desired.
Senior Finance Analyst
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 21-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 04-Sep-2026
Role overview
The Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for day-to-day financial activities, accurate recording and reporting of bank transactions, budget control and the efficiency and effectiveness of payment processes.
Main responsibilities
- Control financial resources and ensure transactions, systems and procedures comply with regulations, accounting principles and standards.
- Handle financial analysis and reporting, taxation, insurance, credit control, accounts payable and receivable, inventory and cost control.
- Advise management on financial matters and the impact of laws and regulations.
- Work with Finance Analysts and Managers on budgets, financial reports and day-to-day General Ledger reviews.
- Monitor cost-centre budgets and discuss identified variances with cost-centre owners.
- Ensure vendor invoices and staff claims are processed within agreed turnaround times.
- Maintain records for easy reference and audit purposes.
- Resolve stakeholder queries involving GL access, refunds and reversals.
- Follow up receivable accounts and clear outstanding items from Suspense GLs.
- Support Finance Analysts in understanding finance processes, procedures and departmental objectives.
- Assist Managers in monitoring the Finance Risk Register.
- Support compliance with finance processes, procedures and policies.
Knowledge and skills
Candidates should understand financial control and management.
Technical requirements include:
- Financial management.
- Financial accounting.
- MS Excel.
- Power Point.
- ERP.
- BI.
- Flexcube system.
Behavioural competencies include information monitoring, decision making, communication, customer focus, facilitating change and managing work.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business studies, Accountancy, Finance or related fields.
- Professional qualification Certificate in Accounting (CPA/ACCA or its equivalent) will be an added advantage.
- Master’s degree in Business studies is an added advantage.
- Banking certification(s) is an added advantage.
- At least 3 years’ experience in Finance and Accounting.
Senior Specialist; Operational Risk MIS & Data Analytics
- Employer: NMB Bank Plc
- Location: Head Office, Hq
- Number of positions: 1
- Job opening date: 26-Aug-2026
- Job closing date: 09-Sep-2026
Role overview
The Senior Specialist; Operational Risk MIS & Data Analytics supports implementation and execution of the Operational Risk Management Framework across the bank by identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting operational risks.
The position also has a strong data and management-information component involving risk dashboards, Key Risk Indicators, operational loss data, ESG-related risks and reports for management and governance forums.
Main responsibilities
Risk assessment, analysis and reporting
- Support business units in creating, maintaining and improving Risk Registers.
- Facilitate identification, setup and calibration of Key Risk Indicators.
- Analyse and validate reported KRI results and ensure control improvements are reflected in business Risk Registers.
- Analyse, reconcile and validate operational-loss data.
- Monitor remedial actions and validate their closure to help prevent recurrence.
- Track actions arising from RCSAs, risk events, KRIs and other reviews.
- Support implementation of the Operational Risk Management Framework, policies and initiatives.
- Escalate significant operational-risk issues where required.
- Support identification and assessment of sustainability risks, including climate-related financial risks.
- Integrate ESG risk factors into operational-risk assessments, Risk Registers and RCSAs.
- Monitor climate-related operational-loss events and contribute to mitigation strategies.
Management information, data and analytics
- Aggregate, analyse and interpret operational-risk data including RCSA outcomes, KRIs, risk events, issues and loss data.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and automated MI reports for management and Board-level governance forums.
- Conduct trend and root-cause analysis to identify systemic risk issues.
- Track risk-appetite metrics and breaches.
- Monitor ESG-related operational-risk indicators including climate events, environmental compliance breaches and reputational risks.
- Contribute to reports and dashboards covering climate-risk exposure and sustainability metrics for committees and regulators.
Advisory and guidance
- Advise business units on operational-risk management practices.
- Support development of risk-mitigation plans aligned with the bank’s risk-management strategy.
- Provide guidance on operational-risk policies, procedures and regulatory expectations.
- Conduct awareness and training sessions to strengthen operational-risk culture.
- Support alignment with ESG and climate-risk governance expectations including BoT Guidelines, NBAA Guidelines, ISSB and TCFD.
- Collaborate with ESG, Sustainability and Risk Policy teams where required.
Knowledge and skills
Candidates should have:
- In-depth understanding of operational-risk principles, practices and frameworks.
- Good knowledge of end-to-end banking processes, products and services.
- Proficiency in risk-assessment tools and techniques.
- Ability to extract, clean, analyse and interpret operational-risk data.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations concerning operational-risk management.
- Working knowledge of risk systems and tools.
- Understanding of internal-control design, testing and monitoring.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power BI or other data-visualisation tools.
- Knowledge of SQL, Python or other data-analysis tools is a plus.
- Strong report-writing, presentation and communication skills.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams.
- Strong organisational skills.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Data Science, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Master’s degree in business studies is an added advantage.
- Risk certification(s) is an added advantage.
- At least four (4) years of relevant experience in operational risk, internal audit, enterprise risk management, or risk data analysis within the banking or financial services sector.
- Solid understanding of operational risk frameworks, ESG, RCSAs, KRIs, loss event reporting, governance and assurance reviews.
- Proven experience in data analytics, risk reporting, and use of risk management systems/tools.
- Experience in preparing reports and dashboards for senior management and governance committees.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and risk management standards (e.g., Basel II/III).
Application deadlines
- Product Manager Assets: 31-Aug-2026
- Credit Analyst: 01-Sep-2026
- Manager Finance & Control: 04-Sep-2026
- Senior Finance Analyst: 04-Sep-2026
- Senior Specialist; Operational Risk MIS & Data Analytics: 09-Sep-2026
- Relationship Manager; Parastatals: 11-Sep-2026
How to apply
Applications for these positions are handled through NMB Bank Plc’s official careers portal. Review the qualifications, experience and responsibilities for the position you want before continuing with the online application.
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Important notice for applicants
NMB Bank Plc states that it does not charge any fee in connection with its application or recruitment process. Applicants should disregard requests for payment associated with these vacancies.
NMB Bank Plc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Female candidates and people living with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
