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Job Description

• The Ideal candidate will contribute to the Bank’s strategic planning and execution by continuously improving the Bank’s planning and budgetary processes, creation of insightful reports to support the business, regulatory and stakeholders’ management, and effective tax and cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy, Planning and Budgeting:

• Drive the entire budgeting process from the Bank’s Budgets setting to individual Staff KPIs and budget
• Assist in formulating the company's corporate goals and supporting strategic initiatives
• Monitor and direct the implementation of corporate goals
• Budgetary Controls. Monitor performance against budget, ensure compliance with Operating and Capital Expenditure Budget, provide recommendations to meet/excess set budget
• Performance Management
• Ensure alignment of the performance measures and reports with the corporate goals
• Develop performance recognition, improvement, reward and intervention schemes to drive business performance
• Provide timely and insightful business analytics to Executive Management

Management Reporting:

• Manage the entire Management Reporting process of the Bank
• Monitor and ensure compliance with Prudential Ratios

Financial Reporting:

• Ensure that the Bank’s Financial Statement are in line with regulatory requirements, relevant reporting standards (IFRS) and best practices

Others:

• Work closely with all departments on projects and initiatives to meet the Bank’s Corporate Goals
• Provide leadership and build capacity within the Finance department

Requirements

• Good First Degree in Numeric disciplines
• 10 years’ experience with 5 in senior executive role in Finance
• ACA/ACCA
• MBA or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting and analytics
• Ability to see the big picture while focusing on the process and procedures necessary to produce deliverables
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy in work product
• Ability to meet and establish deadlines Good interpersonal Skills
• Ability to build capacity of team members
• Experience in digital transformation

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Job Description

• This position is part of the Executive Management Team (EMT) and is responsible for collaborating with the other members of the EMT in delivering and achieving overall corporate results under the direction of the CEO.
• The EMT is also responsible for leadership and championing the corporate culture.
• As a visionary and future-focused leader, the CFO will actively expand information-sharing opportunities across functions within the organization.
• They will promote improvements to existing budgeting processes, reporting packages, and performance dashboards and provide insightful analytics to support decision-making.

CFO Functions

• Accounting
• Budgeting
• Tax
• Financial Analysis and Reporting
• Treasury

Board & Management Committees

• ALCO
• Board Audit & Finance Committee
• Board Risk Committee
• Management Credit Committee
• Information Technology Oversight Committee (ITOC)
• Risk Oversight Committee (ROC)

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors treasury strategy and policies including Liquidity, Investment and Lending, Asset Liability Management, Interest Rate Exchange, Derivatives, and Foreign Exchange; ensures all reporting processes including those of a regulatory nature, are completed and all trends identified and analyzed; ensures the organization meets all external liquidity regulations and internal policy limits; lead the implementation of internal controls within treasury and ensures internal audits are conducted for market risk and other treasury functions.
• Develops a long-range capital plan with the CEO and senior executives designed to maximize business successes, current, and future which is approved by the Board; defines and maintains financial frameworks and standards for operating and capital allocation.
• Leads the organization’s pricing strategy by recommending and administering interest rates for existing products and services in collaboration with key executives; provides rate quotations for unusual or unique circumstances and approves discretionary pricing approaches.
• Maintains corporate financial policies, controls, procedures, and standards to ensure adequate expense control and revenue collection; oversees procurement policies and seeks to leverage through volume rebates, group purchasing, creating preferred suppliers of record, and ensuring compliance to agree upon sourcing guidelines.
• Leads the annual budgeting process and works closely with the People Services Leader to align the budgeting process with the annual business planning process.
• Ensures internal and external financial reporting is conducted in a timely manner and meets appropriate financial reporting standards (IFRS) and compliance with any accounting legislation; provides financial planning, reporting, and analysis to improve organizational performance.
• Ensures the annual external audit is completed and reported on a timely basis to the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board; ensures a strong monitoring system for accounting practices is in place to satisfy the regulator for the requirement of transparency.
• Manages the accounting operations functions including accounts payable and receivable, PPE, and cash management, coordinates with regions to ensure their operations are effective; reconciles and accounts for all funds received and disbursed at the corporate level; completes all corporate banking transactions; has responsibility for ensuring the integrity and appropriateness of the organization’s accounting systems and processes, ensuring appropriate oversight designed to minimize risk.

Requirements
Experience &/or Education Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree or college Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or a related field
• 10-15 years prior experience in a Finance/Accounting division, acting in a role at a senior level
• Extensive experience in budget development and management, business accounting theory and practice, treasury, taxation, forecasting, and financial controls
• Experience utilizing data analytics to improve financial reporting and decision making
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading and implementing up-to-date financial systems and reporting practices
• Demonstrated ability to apply sound judgment regarding financial decision-making and identifying opportunities for the maximum benefit of the organization
• ACA Accounting Designation is required (ACA, ACCA, and CITN will be an asset)
• MBA

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Job Objective / Summary

• The Business Development Officer is responsible for the co-ordination and integration of the Group’s business development functions.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate all business development initiatives for the group.
• Accountable for business development across the group, weekly
• Prepare and deliver presentations/seminars to clients and prospects for business development purposes.
• Create sales and marketing strategies to generate new clients
• Prospect and win new accounts for the Group.
• Seek opportunities for subsidiaries in each subsidiary’s business
• Attend Business Development meetings of all subsidiaries
• Give advisory support to all business units in the group.
• Coordinates the networking of the Group and business units with prospects
• operators and regulators.
• Prepare weekly report on business development and marketing activities
• Consult with clients on the Group’s strategic products and services that are suitable for their needs
• Track revenue generation in order to facilitate the achievement of the Group’s budget
• Monitor decisions on business development and measure their impact
• Build a strong and long term relationship with clients
• Establish a network of referrals
• Examine business patterns, evaluate the fiscal statements, and assess potential competitors for clients’ businesses.
• Prepare business plans and suggest suitable business solutions to clients.
• Perform all other functions connected to business activities as may be directed by the management
• Any other assignment as may be assigned by your supervisor.

Qualifications / Education

• Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent.

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in similar role in the financial services industry

Skills & Competencies:

• Leadership
• Ability to influence others to do what is to be done.
• Must possess good listening skills
• Must be fair, goal oriented, responsible and skilled
• Must be a good director of affairs both human and material
• Must be able to evaluate others
• Must be charismatic
• Proactive decision-maker.
• Ability to look beyond the obvious/routine
• Ability to see what others cannot see.
• Ability to seek a richer set of alternatives
• Ability to question assumptions
• Ability to proactively measure performance
• Self-starter
• Must be an energetic person with unusual initiative
• Must be resilient.
• Sound ethics and integrity.
• Must be discernibly honest and of consistent upright character
• Must be ethical i.e. must follow the ideals and responsibilities of the banking industry as set out in the code of ethics guiding operations and operators in the industry.

Work Tools Required:

• Laptop