Barclays Bank Uganda Jobs – Head of Credit Underwriting

Organisation: Barclays
Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Head of
Credit Operations Unit
About Barclays Africa: 
Barclays Africa encompasses
Barclays Global Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, and Barclaycard operations
in 10 countries organised 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 centres 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 Credit Underwriting will oversee the performance of the Retail Credit
Risk Assessing team and ensure integrity of the credit application assessment
and approval process in line with the Barclay’s policies and procedures.
                                                                            
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
      
1. Management of the Credit
assessment process (50%)
  • Monitor
    the assessment of credit applications handled by the Assessing team to
    ensure that decisions are within policy requirements by Sampling of
    subordinate’s portfolio.
  • Act
    as an escalation point for all credit applications outside the
    discretionary limits of the Loan assessing officers
  • Assess
    and sanction or decline credit applications within own discretion
  • Refer
    applications outside own discretion, with recommendations to the Head of Credit
    Operations Unit and Head of Retail Credit Risk.
  • Communicate
    with branches on matters regarding risk assessment
  • Implement
    and ensure adherence to current credit policies as may be communicated by
    the Retail Credit Risk team.
  • Guarantee
    that credit application assessment process is in line with business
    Service Levels and required Turn around Time.
  • Minimise
    incidence of fraud and credit losses by ensuring credit processes and
    procedures are adhered to by the Loans Processing Unit.
  • Supervise
    risks within the Loans Processing unit to levels acceptable within the
    business through current risk management framework.
2. People Management (20%)
  • Ensure
    appropriate up skilling of the Loan assessing team of by conducting
    on-the-job coaching and training
  • Drive
    productivity within Loan assessing team by directing and controlling
    workflow
  • Develop
    and agree individual and team performance standards and targets.
  • Review
    individual and team performance against agreed objectives.
  • Ensure
    team development by Identifying training needs of team members and
    recommending training plans to satisfy those needs.
  • Motivate
    and build own team
  • Initiate
    disciplinary process for team members where required in line with the
    Barclays Disciplinary and Grievance procedures.
3. Controls (25%)
  • Assign
    snapchecks to team members and ensure close-out of identified issues.
  • Ensure
    that all loans approved with discretionary limit meet the set product
    lending criteria before approval.
  • Ensure
    that all suspicious loan applications from the loan assessing team to the
    Fraud team for further investigation.
  • Monitor
    team error rates in relation to accuracy of information entered in the
    system and assessment forms and ensure that appropriate measures are put
    in place to address lapses.
  • Communicate
    any changes in Retail Lending policy to team members to ensure that they
    are implemented as required.
4. Contribution to the team
(5%)
  • Share
    best practice and any red flags that are a result of the underwriting
    process.
  • Technically
    support other members of the Credit Operations management team when
    required to ensure business continuity and achievement of business
    targets.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    ideal candidate should have five or more years’ banking experience with at
    least 4 years’ experience in Credit Risk role
  • Good
    working knowledge of the bank’s lending policies, principles and
    procedures
  • Detailed
    knowledge of the Personal Sector credit risk policies, risk pricing, risk
    management procedures and tools
  • Sound
    knowledge of the bank’s lending criteria in the Small Business and
    Personal sectors and the products/services relating to them
  • Possess
    exhaustive knowledge and understanding of the segment specific products
    and services
  • Good
    understanding of the bank’s performance management techniques
  • A
    good appreciation of the bank’s products and service standards
  • A
    detailed knowledge of the International Credit manual, BMIS User manual,
    Barclayloan/Personal Overdraft User manual and Guide to management of Risk
  • Comprehensive
    knowledge and understanding of regulatory lending requirements and
    standards
  • Any
    credit/finance/accounting/ Risk accreditation will be an added advantage
  • Mentoring
    and coaching skills
  • Team
    leadership skills
  • Excellent
    analytical skills
  • Excellent
    Interpersonal skills
  • Computer
    proficiency
  • Excellent
    organisation skills
  • Communication
    skills
  • Risk
    assessment
  • Numercacy
    skills to analyse statistical financial information
  • Excellent
    negotiation Skills
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:
Click
Here
-> Job Number (Type
00151910)
Barclays is an equal
opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and
rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and gender.
For queries contact us on
0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline:  20th March, 2014

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