Team Lead, Investor Relations at United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Responsibilities

• Participate in the formulation of UBA’s investor relations policies, objectives & initiatives.
• Participate in the bank’s drive to attract more investments from identified target groups.
• Contribute to the development of an active relationship with existing and potential investors and external investment analysis (both buy and sell side).
• Manage reporting calendar, including road shows, meetings, results announcements and conference calls.
• Organize meetings with independent shareholder associations in preparation for annual general meetings (AGM).
• Monitor Nigeria and international press for accuracy of reporting investors relations issues & internal dissemination as appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring the timely production of quality annual reports and other internal reports (including monthly departmental reports, quarterly board report, company fact sheet etc.).
• Liaise with UBA registrars to ensure needs of retail shareholders are being effectively dealt with.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of investor relations materials to existing and potential investors.
• Act as resource within UBA to help guide effective public disclosure consistent with regulatory and best practice guidelines.
• Assist Head, Strategy & Performance Management in shareholder targeting and analysis.
• Work on influencing sell-side coverage towards ensuring more followers and more publishing from followers.
• Maintain an accurate and updated database of analysts, institutional investors and other contact that are critical to investors relations core function.
• Prepare ad hoc press releases as appropriate.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by Head, Strategy & Performance Management.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in any financial related discipline, preferably also have completed CFA, similar financial markets qualification.
• 8 - 10 years experience.

Candidate's Profile:

• We are looking for a candidate that has good knowledge of financial markets and has completed CFA with a minimum of 8 years experience in investor's relations.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Financial markets.
• Accounting & corporate finance.
• Financial institutions regulations.
• Relationship management.
• Public Relations.

Skills Required:

• Leadership skills.
• Organization & coordination skills.
• Negotiation skills
• Accounting knowledge.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Communication (oral & written) especially with external audiences.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.