Reconciliation and Balance Sheet Assurance at Ecobank Nigeria

Job Description:

• Perform core Reconciliation and Proofing of allocated Bank Accounts for Nigeria; both Balance Sheet and Off-Balance Sheet Accounts identified to require Proofing and Reconciliation.
• Ensure that all allocated Accounts have Reviewers and Owners.
• Follow up with Account Reviewers and Owners to drive closure of identified open items.
• Work with Supervisor to build a robust and reliable Proofing & Reconciliation capability for Nigeria.
• Primary resource for taskforce activities leading to the identification of over aged items and items at risk in the affiliate.
• Training and project resource for Reconciliation and Proofing projects
• Maintain Issues Register for breach of compliance to standard narrations and escalate to reviewers and owners for corrections
• Ensure that all reconciled transactions contain key references and narrations that provide quality information for independent verification to source.
• Onboard allocated Internal Accounts to Automated Reconciliation Systems adopted by the group
• Ensure accuracy of balances of proofs to the ledger and substantiation thereof
• Continuously implementing best in quality management of the Group’s Proofing and Reconciliations of Accounts in business units.
• Ensure timely conduct and Submission of proofs and reconciliation reports to Account Reviewers and Account Owners country wide.
• Ensure timely escalation of identified events that could lead to material loss to ensure timely mitigation of exposures and execute assurance.
• Deploy frameworks and key risk indicators for identification, assessment, measurement reporting, monitoring, and mitigating both emerging and existing exposures.
• Drive the automation of Reconciliation and Proofing processes for the affiliate