Job Vacancies at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

Location: Head Office, Nigeria

Job Objectives

• Measurement, monitoring and controlling of the market risks to which the Group is exposed.
• Implement consistent Market Risk Management policies and procedures across the Group.
• Minimize Position and Trading Losses.
• Achieve high levels of Customer Satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Scan financial markets for relevant data to positions held by the bank, both financial and regulatory.
• Collect internal data for the head office and subsidiaries through the Bank’s operating systems.
• Data collection from various market intelligence reports that impact the Bank’s position.
• Collect bank data to identify the Bank’s market positions.
• Collect market data with reference to the various positions in order to be able to make comparisons.
• Prepare daily reports which show the position of the Bank, highlighting areas of concern and areas requiring improvement.
• Monitor set limits for compliance for the bank.
• Circulate reports to concerned parties and escalation of issues where the need arises.
• Prepare other Market Risk Reports.
• Prepare revaluation report for both the Held for Trading and Available for Sale portfolio of the Bank.
• Prepare Value-at-Risk Reports for the bank.
• Prepare Sensitivity Analysis for Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange portfolios – bank.
• Monitor deals consummated by treasury.
• Prepare Derivatives Valuation Report for the bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of GALCO Reports – bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of Group Risk Management Report – bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of Market Risk Snapshots for the Chairman – bank.
• Provide support in the Preparation of Board Reports – bank.

Qualifications

• Our ideal candidate must have knowledge of accounting, and banking operations functions and be highly numerate. Must be analytical with good oral and written communication, and have good database management skills.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in any field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge & Skill Required:

• Basic accounting
• Understand banking operations
• Good grasp of balance sheet mapping 
• Above-average database management abilities.
• Highly numerate.

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.

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Location: Benin, Edo
Employment Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To assist the GCCO in ensuring prompt response to regulatory issues.
• Ensure prompt rendition of regulatory reports
• Zero regulatory sanctions

Responsibilities

• Identify the relevant role players in accordance with business requirements and dependencies.
• Build a cordial relationship with Law Enforcement Officers.
• Compile a database of major role players among the agencies.
• Manage relationships in accordance with policies, procedures and legal requirements within the allocated time frames.
• Ensure to keep a proper record of enquiries from Law Enforcement Agencies.
• Ensure that required information is collated and reviewed to be satisfactory.
• Transmit such information and documents to the respective LEA.
• Guide staff in honouring LEA invitations and giving evidence on behalf of the bank in courts.
• Obtain and collate reports and inputs from the various other departments and Units.
• Review data/inputs obtained from other departments and units.
• Ensure that the various reports are prepared and that they meet standards.
• Ensure that the reports are transmitted to the respective regulators.
• Ensure that the TAT is met in rendition of these reports.
• Identify such risks posed by high-risk customers in their KYC documentation and other requirements.
• Ensure that complete documentation expected from the customers is obtained for high-risk customers.
• Ensure that PEP customers are identified and rated high.
• Participate in training staff within the group.
• Ensure that staff abide by Group Policies and relevant laws as applicable.
• Carry out enhanced due diligence on high-risk and high-profile accounts.
• Investigate and clear transactions identified against specified watch lists.
• Ensure that due diligence is conducted on transfers to high-risk countries.
• Assist in the management of Compliance Helpdesk.
• Render advisory support to staff through Compliance Helpdesk.
• Provide support to Cluster Compliance Officers.
• Assist in the automation of Compliance Process Application.

Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor's Degree
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in operations, internal control or audit & compliance, external auditing, risk management

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have knowledge of regulatory Liaison Mgt, strong knowledge of CBN policies and interpretation of Policies & law. Must possess strong interpersonal and communications skills.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Regulatory Liaison Management.
• Deep knowledge of the Bank’s Products, Services and Processes
• Extensive knowledge of the bank’s policies and procedures
• Knowledge of CBN’s policies and the business environment
• Strong human interpersonal relationship and communications skills.
• Good interpretation of policies and laws.

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.

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Job Objective(s)

• Managing the litigation portfolio of the Bank.

Responsibilities

• Prompt and strategic review and assessment of litigation portfolio to determine cases, which should be settled amicably.
• Review and assessment of the Bank’s defence in matters in litigation and recommendation on settlement in respect of cases in which the Bank has no defence.
• Proper monitoring of cases in court to ensure that the Bank’s interests are adequately protected.
• Aggressive pursuit of recovery matters under the Litigation Recovery portfolio to ensure timely recovery of the Bank’s debts.
• Effective prosecution of fraud cases to ensure judicially logical conclusions to serve as a deterrent to others.
• Compile a list of fresh actions instituted against the Bank on monthly basis to be included in the schedule pending cases.
• Review Judgments entered against the Bank in order to determine whether to submit to judgment or whether there are sufficient grounds on which to sustain an appeal.
• Review subpoenas served on the Bank and advise Branch or Division on appropriate steps to take with respect to either Subpoena Ad Testificandu or Subpoena Duces Tecum.
• Review miscellaneous interlocutory and injunctive orders against the Bank and advise Business offices on steps to be taken.
• Review garnishee order nisi [interim orders], determine the implications of the order for the Bank and give necessary instructions to branches/solicitors (if need be).
• Appraise the performance of external solicitors and recommend to management the solicitors to be retained or delisted.
• Interfaces with external auditors of the Bank during audit, provide them with the schedule of pending litigations and respond to their queries
• Interfaces with CBN and NDIC during an audit, provide them with the schedule of pending litigation, and selected case files, and respond to their queries.
• Prepare a schedule of contingent liabilities for Financial Control which will be used for audit.
• Represent the Bank and participate in the mediation sessions at the Lagos and Abuja Multi-Door courthouses
• Refer deserving matters to Lagos Multi-Door courthouse for mediation and negotiation.
• Participates in ADR procedures to ensure resolution of deserving matters without recourse to litigation.
• Recommendation to management on possible terms of settlement and engage in negotiating a settlement in terms most favourable to the Bank.
• Review of court processes proposed to be filed by our solicitors to ensure that the Bank is adequately protected.
• Visit Police Stations/other law enforcement agencies to secure the release of staff on bail or to assist staff in making extra-judicial statements to the relevant agencies
• Participate in sector meetings and activities as required.
• Perform other functions delegated by the Unit Head or Divisional Head.

Qualifications

• Minimum of First Degree in Law.
• LL. B (Bachelor of Laws).
• Professional qualification (an advantage).
• A minimum of 5 years of experience (in Litigation/legal practice or financial services institution).

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have experience in Litigation, legal practice or financial service institutions.
• Must be analytical with effective communication skills, have good alternative dispute resolution skills and brief writing skills.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Sound knowledge of the law
• Knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules of the High Courts of the various states
• Negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Alternative dispute resolution skills
• Effective communication skills
• Good interpersonal relationship
• Research and Analytical Skills
• Brief writing 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.

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Job Objective(s)

• To manage and support the bank’s Compliance Risk Management strategy in ensuring that the Bank’s AML and Counter Financing of Terrorism’s efforts are in line with the Group standards and international best practices.

Responsibilities

• Use of Actimize for Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM).
• Sanctions Screening Compliance.
• Money Remittance (Western Union & MoneyGram) Transactions Monitoring.
• Compliance Investigations, Reporting and Returns Rendition.
• Response to Request for Information (RFI) from Correspondent Banks.
• To carry out enhanced due diligence reviews to prevent the Bank from being exposed to the risk of sanctions and associated financial/reputational loss that the Group may incur as a result of failure to comply with regulations.
• Ensure capacity building of staff to improve Compliance culture in the bank.
• To carry out ongoing monitoring of accounts in line with extant regulations and internal policy to identify and report suspicious transactions to the requisite statutory authorities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in Compliance, Operations, Audit, Internal Control or Risk Management.

Candidates Profile: 

• Our ideal candidate must have experience in Operations, Internal Control or Audit & Compliance, External Auditing and Risk Management.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Extensive knowledge of the bank’s policies & procedures
• Deep understanding of the Bank’s products, services and processes.
• Good knowledge of Banking Operations
• Excellent understanding of national and international AML/CFT Regulations.
• Interpretation of red flags of unusual transactions into suspicious transactions reporting.
• Strong Analytical skills.
• Good investigative skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Proficiency in the use of the computer and basic applications like excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving.
• Good interpersonal and communication 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.

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Job Objective

• Coordination of Loan Recovery activities within assigned business offices.
• Management of Memorandum bad debts portfolio and Loan Loss portfolio & erstwhile CTB database.
• Recovery of watch-list accounts & transferred accounts with early warning signals to avoid further deterioration.
• Review & Processing Loan repayment proposals

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Loan Recovery activities within assigned business offices and ensure that the advised recovery target is achieved.
• Manage Memorandum bad debts portfolio and Loan Loss portfolio within assigned business offices.
• Originate Loan repayment proposals for request from indebted customers for management’s consideration.
• Initiate proposals for realization, repossession, and sale of pledged assets and properties of indebted customers.
• Rendition of fortnightly / monthly debt recovery reports for the region to the RH for onward submission to Financial reporting, Performance management and DH, Remedial Management & Credit Recovery Division.
• Achieve recovery financial target in line with advised budget.
• Recovery of watch-list accounts & transferred accounts with early warning signals to avoid further deterioration.
• Manage relationship with debtor customers to ensure compliance with repayment agreements, court orders, regulatory request (EFCC, CBN, Police etc.) & restructure request.
• Review, process and reconcile accounts of indebted customer’s complaints to ensure amicable resolution & payment of the agreed sum.
• Conduct and document recovery visitation to customers.
• Coordinate ad hoc reports for the group.

Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree
• A minimum of 3 years of banking experience in operations or in a sales role.

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in banking operations, or in a sales role

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• General Branch Operations
• Prudential guidelines
• Problem loan management
• Knowledge of the Loan Recovery function.
• Basic credit Skills.
• Good Customer relations
• Communication Skills
• Basic banking operations knowledge.
• Effective reporting
• Negotiating Skills.
• Initiative & analytical judgment.
• 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.

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Job Objective (s)

• To design, develop and conduct automated tests on new and existing software within the Bank using defined test automation guidelines and best practices to deliver thorough test results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Review Requirement Specification Document for completeness 
• Attend user review sessions with stakeholders based on documented requirements. 
• Create and maintain Test plan document.
• Design tests scenarios: Identify and break down necessary test steps required to test the new solution. 
• Ensure all mandatory SIT entry criteria are adhered to.
• Create tasks on the Application Life Cycle Management tool.
• Prepare Test Script based on planned test scenarios. 
• Design, develop and execute reusable and maintainable test cases.  
• Document, track and escalate all identified defects as appropriate. 
• Carry out a Regression test after all the defects have been resolved.
• Send periodic test status updates to project stakeholders.
• Defect Analysis & Reporting.
• Coordinate Re-tests for fixes/ defects/ bugs. 
• Close defects and update defect logs on closure.
• Document Test Summary report after successful completion of Test. 
• Update the Test Plan, Test cases and other test artefacts with changes (if any).
• Ensure the developer reviews source code via the greed Application Security Testing tool. 
• Communicate test closure to the appropriate department in the software development lifecycle.
• Update and Close tasks on the application Life Cycle Management tool (TFS). 
• Peer reviews and Document reviews for both test plans and summary reports.
• Attend team meetings and functional sessions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Test Automation including planning, script development & maintenance

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Proficiency in software testing techniques, testing tools, incident/defect tracking systems and other test-support tool.
• Excellent Java programming and debugging skills, including experience with test automation tools and libraries such as Selenium, TestNG/Test Complete, Cypress
• Working knowledge of SQL and experience with Oracle and MS SQL databases;
• Understanding of the Nigerian Banking Industry
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders
• Problem-solving skills & attention to detail
• Competent technical skills
• The ability to work in a team and individually
• Organisational skills with the capability of working with tight deadlines

Candidate's Profile: 

• Our ideal candidate must be knowledgeable in the latest software stacks and test automation frameworks, can utilize multidimensional test data sets, and draw from previous experiences to impact our software delivery lifecycle positively. 
• Excellent Java programming and debugging skills, including experience with test automation tools and libraries such as Selenium, TestNG/Test Complete, Cypress. A team player and highly resourceful.

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.

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Responsibilities

• Support the unit head in the development of strategic alliances/ partnerships with a select number of foreign banks that will drive correspondent cost efficiencies and generate inward/reverse correspondent opportunities across Africa.
• Manage Trade finance relationship with correspondent banks.
• Originate short-term credit lines for Trade Finance.
• Positively project UBA within the International Markets.
• Position UBA to be the preferred partner to FIs in Africa.
• Achieve cost efficiencies in UBA Group’s International Trade Financing by ensuring that our fees are kept to the minimum.
• Engage offshore correspondent banks on Trade and Payments related issues.
• Carry out prompt annual KYC/EDD review of all Correspondent Banks and facilitate same for UBA Group entities.
• Obtain AML/KYC documents online for new relationships and send the documents to Compliance Dept. for due diligence review.
• Achieve cost efficiencies in UBA Group’s International Nostro payment business by ensuring that charges are kept to the minimum.
• Preparation of monthly performance report that captures actual income realized on transactions and maturities settled during the month.
• Support the Unit Head in managing UBA Group’s account relationships i.e. account negotiation, opening and management.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science and Management Science
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in relationship banking, marketing and correspondent banking.

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have good knowledge of banking products/services. Must have good communication skills (Written & Oral), banking operations knowledge, and industry/Regulatory knowledge.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Bank Product/Service Knowledge
• Industry / Regulatory Knowledge
• Banking operations knowledge
• Result-oriented, self-motivated
• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent relationship management/communication skills
• Good communication skills (Oral & Written).

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.

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Job Description

• We are looking for Regional Control Officers in Enugu, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Kano, and Sokoto. Our ideal candidates must have knowledge of financial accounting and audit with at least 4 years of experience from a bank, audit, or consulting firm.

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.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree and ACA or ACCA.
• Minimum of 4 years experience from a bank, audit, or consulting firm.

Knowledge Required:

• 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 at all times.

Skills Required:

• Supervisory, and Investigation skills.
• Attention to detail.
• High level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Ability to maintain a high level of awareness at all times.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Problem solver.

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.

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Job Description

Essential Information

Primary responsibility is to maintain cohesive designs for developed websites and increase its online marketing presence. Successful coordinators need a thorough knowledge of website design practices and should keep up with trends in marketing, including social networking strategies.

Job Description

A website coordinator works as an administrator to developed websites, managing content, maintaining web design and answering consultation questions. Good attention to detail, creativity and knowledge of information technology are all highly sought-after qualities in a website coordinator.

Job Duties

A website coordinator is in charge of :

• Publishing content
• Maintaining continuity of themes
• Designing layout
• Streamlining navigation
• Increasing online presence to potential customers.
• Examining and analyzing site traffic.
• Generating and revising web pages.
• Dealing with and responding to heavy volumes of email.
• Fixing links that don't work and pictures that aren't appearing properly.
• Deciding how site's content will be delivered to the Internet.
• Keeping files small so sites load faster.
• Testing different browsers and ensuring people with different computers can access a website.
• Addressing user complaints

Skills :

• He/She must have knowledge of search engine analytics.
• He/She should be familiar with publishing and design softwares
• He/She must also have strong communication skills and an up-to-date awareness of marketing techniques.
• Proficient in we programming languages HTML/CSS, PHP XML; knowledge of SQL and Javascript is preferred
• Proficient in the use of Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Suite

Job Requirements

• To qualify for most positions, those to be hired for this role need to gain experience in marketing, communications and design. The details below are required:
• Knowledge of web analytics and SEO
• Familiarity with web standards
• Working knowledge of website management tools, programming languages and design software.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical abilities
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to generate creative ideas
• Attention to detail and outstanding organizational skills