Current Job Vacancies at UBA Bank, August, 2018

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa’s leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria, UBA has grown to become a Pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Recovery Officer
Reference No: #RMD008
Locations: Abuja (FCT), Lagos, Port Harcourt – Rivers
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Functions: Sales
Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment
Slots: 3 Openings

Introduction

• As a brand with Africa as the center of its business operations, UBA strongly believes in Africa and its people with emphasis on being global. We are driving the renaissance of the African economy through innovation in Banking, having successfully built a strong domestic and international brand with footprints in 20 African countries, London, Paris and New York.
• Our strong presence on the African continent is deliberate and it reflects our love for diversity and a multicultural system. We have about 15,000 multilingual, ethnically varying and highly diverse people who reflect the richness, multiplicity and uniqueness of the twenty (20) African countries we operate
• Here at UBA, each person’s contribution is valued and is important to the overall vision of the company. Your career growth is of utmost importance to us, that’s why you deserve more than a job. You deserve a tribe. Working in UBA admits you into our tribe
• You will do the work that you love, one that matters to you and will be involved in cross functional projects across all our geographies
• You become a part of the culture built and nurtured on values, resilience and dedication, a culture that make us a role model for African businesses.
• One Bank, One Culture, One People. We are a tribe, join us.

Specification

• Originate Loan repayment proposals for requests from indebted customers for management’s consideration.
• Initiate proposals for realization, repossession, and sale of pledged assets and properties of indebted customers.
• Rendition of monthly debt recovery reports for the zone to the ZH 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 customers complaints to ensure amicable resolution & payment of agreed sum
• Conduct and document recovery visitation to customers
• Management of Memorandum bad debts portfolio and Loan Loss portfolio within assigned business offices

Requirements
Qualification:

• At Least Second Class Lower in Law / Humanities

Experience:

• At least 2 years work experience as Recovery Officer in Financial services/ Law firms

Skill/Competencies:

• Knowledge of the Loan Recovery function.
• Basic credit Skills.
• Good Customer relations
• Communication Skills
• Basic banking operations knowledge.
• Effective reporting
• Negotiating Skills.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

Job Title: Compliance Officer
Reference No: #RMD007#
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Functions: Analytics, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment

Introduction

• As a brand with Africa as the center of its business operations, UBA strongly believes in Africa and its people with emphasis on being global. We are driving the renaissance of the African economy through innovation in Banking, having successfully built a strong domestic and international brand with footprints in 20 African countries, London, Paris and New York.
• Our strong presence on the African continent is deliberate and it reflects our love for diversity and a multicultural system. We have about 15,000 multilingual, ethnically varying and highly diverse people who reflect the richness, multiplicity and uniqueness of the twenty (20) African countries we operate.
• Here at UBA, each person’s contribution is valued and is important to the overall vision of the company. Your career growth is of utmost importance to us, that’s why you deserve more than a job. You deserve a tribe. Working in UBA admits you into our tribe. You will do the work that you love, one that matters to you and will be involved in cross functional projects across all our geographies. You become a part of the culture built and nurtured on values, resilience and dedication, a culture that make us a role model for African businesses.
• One Bank, One Culture, One People. We are a tribe, join us

Specification

• Monitor transactions according to Policy.
• Ensure transaction monitoring and enhanced due diligence on high risk and high profile accounts.
• Manage financial crime risks such as those posed by customers, products, counter-parties in transactions and the transactions themselves through transaction monitoring tools and escalating same where appropriate to the NFIU in form of Suspicious Transaction reports .
• Advisory support service in respect of all Compliance related queries.
• Assist in developing a Group wide compliance culture.
• Facilitate in Compliance training
• Assisting with the update and improvement of the transaction filtering process
• Investigate and clear transactions identified against specified watch lists
• Provide optimum support from a holistic compliance perspective in relation to allocated subsidiaries
• Assist with the implementation of the automated transaction monitoring tool.
• Business office Review
• Assist in responding to inquiries from correspondent banks
• Responding to FATCA related issues
• Ensuring the Bank is compliant with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Requirements
Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years post-NYSC experience
• Sound branch operations experience

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in Humanities
• Masters Degree (desirable)

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

Application Deadline 2nd August, 2018.

Job Title: Relationship Manager
Reference #: UBA_EMDO_RM
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Job Functions: Banking
Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment

Specification

• Building and maintaining relationships with clients and key personnel within client’s companies.
• Prepare marketing plans and strategies to achieve the objective to grow the business across Africa
• Manage relationships with Development Financial Institutions (DFIs), Multilateral Organisations for the purpose of securing funding support for projects
• Monitor performance reporting on financial and other covenants entered by the Bank in respect of cash management services projects in crisis areas.
• Develop and retain relationships with Multilateral Organisations by active management of portfolios and ensuring solutions meet their needs
• Proposal, presentation and business plan formulation for funding alternatives and solutions to DFIs and other Donor Organisations
• Work to identify partnership opportunities and manage all stakeholders
• Proffer innovative solutions and work closely to deliver successful projects across Africa
• Coordinating the execution of business initiatives by identifying business opportunities and developing financing solutions to meet the needs of clients
• Analysing business opportunities through comprehensive industry, client and prospect research
• Coordinate and manage any required due diligence process in respect of the funding options being considered
• Building new relationships with potential portfolio investors from international markets clients for the purpose of securing low cost medium and long term funds for the Bank.

Requirements

• University Degrees in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Banking and/or related professional qualifications.
• Additional Professional Qualification – ICAN, CFA, Masters would be an advantage
• 7 years and above banking experience, preferably in finance; relationship banking; Marketing,

Competencies:

• Required to interact with diverse customers from the Donor, Development, NGO and Projects space and should have good relationship management skills
• Ability to effectively project manage as will be expected to work closely with diverse teams across the bank to deliver and submit RFPs within specified deadlines
• Ability to analyze and research information is critical
• Analytical – logical and numerical
• Good communication and presentation skills are a prerequisite
• Sound financial knowledge, understanding of banking products and digital banking services would be an advantage.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

Application Deadline 3rd August, 2018.