Regional Control Officer at United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Job Objective(s)

• To ensure the business office operations are in line with the Bank’s internal policies, and regulatory policies.

Responsibilities

• Assist business offices with compliance and regulatory issues, and provide counseling when required.
• Improve control and awareness culture in the business offices.
• Ensure that the ambience of the business office is maintained and kept customer friendly at all times.
• Monitor and ensure that open items in the GL accounts are current and reflect the true nature of the products recorded in them.
• Ensure integrity of transactions in Business offices, and report deviations/anomalies immediately.
• Identify control lapses/policy breaches through control activities for process improvement/policy amendments.
• Escalate cases of fraud, customer complaints, and staff disciplinary issues to the Area control manager, or responsible department.

Educational Qualification

• First Degree in any related field

 Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in banking operations, or in a Control related role.

The ideal candidates must be conversant with the following:

• Good knowledge of Accounting and Auditing
• Basic Financial knowledge
• Knowledge of the banking sector, trends, and policies of financial regulators in Nigeria – CBN, NDIC.
• Knowledge of the UBA’s banking policies, processes, and procedures.
• Relationship management - should be able to maintain a customer friendly disposition always.

Desired Skills:

• Supervisory, and Investigation skills
• Attention to details
• High level of integrity and Confidentiality
• Ability to maintain high level of awareness always.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Problem solving.