Job Title: Head of
Cards Uganda VP – 00113010
Cards Uganda VP – 00113010
Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Barclays Africa:
Barclays Africa encompasses Barclays Global Retail Banking, Corporate
Banking, and Barclaycard operations in 10 countries organized in four geographic
areas: North Africa (Egypt), East and West Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and
Kenya), Southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and Indian
Ocean (Mauritius and Seychelles).
Banking, and Barclaycard operations in 10 countries organized in four geographic
areas: North Africa (Egypt), East and West Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and
Kenya), Southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and Indian
Ocean (Mauritius and Seychelles).
Barclays Africa serves its 2.8m customers through a network of 573 branches
and service centre’s providing a variety of traditional financial products
including retail mortgages, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending,
unsecured lending, credit cards, treasury and investments.
and service centre’s providing a variety of traditional financial products
including retail mortgages, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending,
unsecured lending, credit cards, treasury and investments.
Job Summary:
The Head of Cards will be primarily responsible for the direction,
motivation, control and cost effectiveness of the Card Issuing business in
Uganda
motivation, control and cost effectiveness of the Card Issuing business in
Uganda
- Role includes team leadership, staff
motivation, development and support. - This role is also responsible for the
provision of excellent customer service, which includes ensuring that any
technological developments are understood and used to best effect. - Implement governance, risk, compliance and
control within card Issuing. - Management of P&L to achieve agreed
targets - Develop products to enhance the
proposition and achieve operating stability
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Developing Strategies 20%
- Ensuring knowledge of developing
technologies is kept up to date and implemented as appropriate. - Determine, develop and implement strategies
and tactics to achieve/exceed targets and combat competitive threats. - Make value based recommendations on
whether or not to enter new markets, or develop new products and services.
2. Stakeholder Management 35%
- Stakeholder
management of key personnel within Barclays Bank of Uganda - Stakeholder
Manage Barclays Africa key stakeholders and projects to ensure
delivery to agreement obligations and business programmes are delivered to
meet business goals in Uganda - Establish
and manage relationships with key external stakeholders including Card
Schemes, local regulators, other banks, suppliers and local industry
bodies. - Obtain
mutually acceptable business and strategic solutions to issues raised or
escalated within the relationship
3. Effective Management and Development
of Staff 20%
of Staff 20%
- Ensure effective and efficient deployment
of staff with overall responsibility for motivation, direction, control,
training and co-ordination of use. - Ensure Succession Planning is in place and
updated to reflect the growth and internal changes that the African Centre
has and will go through
4. Governance, Control and
Risk 20%
Risk 20%
- Understand technical/regulatory matters
affecting the business. Ultimate responsibility for the continuing
compliance and use of such matters - Assimilation of plans both strategic and
annual covering the Credit card business with
responsibility for turning plans into reality - Ensure Governance, Compliance, Risk and
Control are implemented and adhered to meet Group Standards by Centre.
Staff at all levels to be clear on what is expected of them. Any new
regulatory or Group requirements are implemented and reviewed throughout
Barclaycard in a timely fashion.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
- The candidate should
possess several years experience within similar roles - Excellent numeric
skills will be required to obtain, prepare, assess and assimilate very
complex and detailed information - Excellent People
Management Skills - Strong Negotiation
Skills - Excellent
interpersonal Skills - PC Skills
- Essential to be innovative
and pro-active - Experience of working
in a multi-cultural environment - Employee
representative bodies - The applicant should have
a good understanding of Barclaycard
products/policies/plans/objectives in order to pro-actively embrace
systems/procedure changes within the function - Will require extensive
knowledge of the impact of short, medium and long-term plans of the
business and the effects of them on other functions, in order to implement
the plans in the most effective and holistic manner. - Will be required to
have an understanding of local, as well as, European statutes that relate
to role holders function. The most important of these will be Visa and
MasterCard regulations. - Is likely to be
personally responsible for compliance within function. Other statutes may
include: Law relating to employment of People, Health and Safety at work, Money
Laundering regulations, Data Protection Act, KYC and FSA - Good working knowledge
of IT and telephony systems - An understanding of the
credit card industry - Satisfies the
FSA criteria For An approved person, both initially And ongoing - A proven successful
track record of management experience at Junior, Middle and senior Level,
with proven examples of the successful Management of resources such as
budgets, people and premises in an operational area. - Management experience
in a multi-cultural environment - Experience of remote
site management within a matrix management model - Experience of working
in with other areas of the business in order to obtain an understanding of
Commercial, Optimisation, Front-end Lending practices and the operational
requirements of the business.
How to Apply:
If you feel challenged by any of the above positions, and believe you
can deliver on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your application
letter, current curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic certificate to our
recruitment website detail below:
can deliver on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your application
letter, current curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic certificate to our
recruitment website detail below:
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, develops and
promotes people on merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of
background and gender.
promotes people on merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of
background and gender.
For queries contact us on 0417122453 or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 19th September, 2013
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