Asset Custodian (Nationwide) at Stanbic IBTC

Job Purpose

• To ensure the availability of treasury cash, reserve and blank forms.
• Ensure the availability of a fully functional cash service to tellers including the custody and balancing of vault cash,  processing of vault deposits, withdrawal and handling of related reports.
• Control treasury cash, blank forms, safe custody items and duplicate keys.
• Understand and manage the risks associated with the custody of these items as well as the changes in the custody of assets through effective system controls.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Asset Custodianship:

• Custodian of treasury cash, reserve, blank forms and keys & cash
• Ensure that the correct procedures for handling and movement of cash assets in the branch are adhered to.
• Ensure that the correct security procedures are adhered to when cash is moved to agencies and delivered to/collected from Cash Management Unit.
• Effective cash management to ensure vault approved limits are adhered to.
• Receive notes and coins from tellers to be lodged into the vault.
• Check physical cash received / evacuated in the presence of the Cash Management Unit (CMU) representatives.
• Control Keys for container / trolley (Used for transporting cash from vault to tellers).
• Assist with surprise checks of tellers.

Support Functions:

• Attend to branch account payments.
• Issue Bank Cheques as required. 
• Counter sign issued Bank Cheques as required.
• Reconcile all branch suspense accounts as listed below.
• Attend to Cash Advance transactions.
• Attend to all Records Administration issues in the branch.
• Attend to all issues on refunds on all closed customers accounts.

ATM Custodians Support Functions:

• Carry out first level support (basic) on User's workstations, scanners, or other peripherals
• Resolve basic finacle issues such as applet, Invalid username/Password, or proxy exception errors, etc
• Map users' workstations to the Combo printer and ensure quality printout
• Assist RIS connect remotely to systems & resolve simple LAN issues
• ATM support including: simple power related issues on UPS and inverter, ATM operation support (Availability, Cash management, resolution of simple issues like cash jam, paper jam, etc)
• Supervise vendors, contractors, PM engineers to ensure a good and neat work is done in the branch.

Reports:

• ATM Reports
• Operating Cash Report
• Listing of ATM Transactions.

Accounts:

• Cash
• Vault Reserve
• ATM
• Overage Account
• Shortage Account
• SRAs
• Certified Cheque
• Stale Cheques.
• Bank Cheques.

Other Functions:

• Custom Duty Payments
• Mails Administration
• Administration of Stationery (vault out of stationary items)
• Maintenance of Office Equipment
• Call-over functions.

Registers:

• Cash Advance Register - Petty cash
• Bank Cheque Register.
• Customs Duty Register (where applicable).

Minimum Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University
• Minimum of 2 years branch banking experience with exposure to tellering and safe custody.