Team Member, FCY Treasury Control at United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Candidate's Profile

• Our ideal candidate must have knowledge of banking operations and control functions.
• Must be analytical with good oral and written communication, and have a good audit and accounting skills.

Job Objective (s)

• To build a strong audit and compliance environment to ensure zero level fraud, value for money, and zero infractions to policies; provide compliance counselling, advisory and decision support services to business units and strategic resource functions.

Responsibilities

• Daily review of GL with special focus on FX TROPS accounts.
• Daily monitoring of Open Position Limit (OPL).
• Daily review of Trading (Local and 3rd currency Trading) and counterparty limit adherence.
• Daily confirmation of FX trading deals with the counterparties through MT 300 in SWIFT.
• Daily review of FX trading deals vis-à-vis blotter, Finacle Treasury and NOSTRO account statement to ensure that all mature deals are settled through our NOSTRO accounts.
• Daily review of FCY Money Market Blotter and ensure same agreed with the bank GL.
• Daily call over of TROPS FCY transactions.
• Daily review of FX Funds Transfer (remittance) outflow and inflow.
• Review of Critical Exception Report with special preference TROPS Transactions.
• Daily reconciliation of position accounts via GL/Blotter for various currencies (USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, ZAR etc.)
• Resolution of open items in GL/Blotter position reconciliation.
• Periodic spot check on correspondent banking unit activities which include but are not limited to risk participation.
• Monthly review of proof of accounts and provisioning.
• Logging of exceptions on ICEM.
• Closure of Exception in ICEM.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in any field.
• A minimum of 2 – 5 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Comprehensive Banking Operations
• Comprehensive Treasury Knowledge
• Comprehensive Capital Market Knowledge
• Fraud and Operational Risk knowledge
• Banking, Insurance and financial services knowledge
• Extensive Working Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Intranet Mailing facility and the core banking application (Finacle) of the bank.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Analytical and Investigation Skills.
• Auditing and Accounting Skills.
• General Multi Corporate Finance and Financial Strategy Skills.
• Policy and Regulation interpretation/ implementation.
• Conceptual Skills.
• Corporate Performance Management Skills

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 the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an 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.