4 Barclays Bank Careers – Corporate Credit Manager-AVP

Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
Reports To: Manager Senior Credit Manager
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 Corporate Credit Manager will be charged with;
  • Acting as a credit
    professional expert to the relationship team and the conduit to the Credit
    Risk function for sanctioning purposes.
  • Responsible for
    developing practical and appropriate credit solutions (i.e. lending structures)
    through understanding customers’ needs.
  • Delivering high quality
    and consistent, credit applications, making recommendations.
  • Monitor and control
    nominated accounts within designated portfolios.
  • Maintain integrity of
    Commercial Credit Risk System (CCRS) data ensuring financial information
    is updated.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
1. Understanding the Credit/ Solutions Development:
30%
  • Assess a customer’s
    business through the analysis of Business and Credit risks associated with
    the provision of the bank’s products and services to the customer.
  • Develop high quality
    credit solutions with the view of obtaining fast credit approval from
    Credit teams.
  • Be the joint contact for
    credit management purposes for accountants, solicitors and other professionals.
3. The Credit Process: 30%
  • Preparation of Commercial
    Credit Risk System (CCRS) applications with paper attachments for
    recommendation to the Sanctioners
  • Work directly with the
    sanctioning office for all credits that are outside local Risk Management
    or the Relationship Manager’s personal discretion.
  • Attend customer meetings
    with the Relationship Manager if credit related issues are to be
    discussed/ need to be resolved.
  • Review and sign facility
    letters and co-ordinate execution of documentation and draw down of
    facilities.
 
4. Portfolio Management- Monitoring and Control : 30%
  • In charge of the
    management of all financial information produced by customers.
  • Responsible for managing
    the end to end process for risk reports, challenging Relationship Managers
    where control lapses or potential risk has been identified
  • Monitor and Control
    quality of portfolio using ‘Condition of Sanction’ triggers where
    possible. Discussing with Sanctioners deteriorating trends and trigger
    events if they give cause for concern, advising the Relationship Manager
    simultaneously.
5. Staff Management: 10%
  • Support the Team Leaders
    in delivering effective performance development for individuals within the
    team.
  • Drive proactive
    application of Barclays Guiding Principles both personally and throughout
    the team and coach and support colleagues within the Team.
Qualifications,
Skills and Experience: 
  • Excellent analytical and
    numerical skills
  • Excellent Communications
    and presentation skills
  • Commercial Credit Risk
    System (CCRS) and IT skills
  • Good Negotiation Skills
  • Excellent inter-personal
    skills
  • Effective time management
    and planning skills
  • Detailed knowledge and
    understanding of credit and financial analysis techniques.
  • Internal
    instructions/procedures including Head office instructions, Barclays
    Africa Whole Sale Credit Risk Standards and Control Framework.
  • Products and services
    frequently used by customers 
  • Awareness of legislation
    affecting the Bank and customers having the highest regard for
    confidentiality.
  • Significant knowledge of
    Commercial Credit Risk System (CCRS) or a similar system to analyse,
    monitor and report on credit applications.
  • Extensive knowledge of
    Commercial Credit Risk System (CCRS) and other bank systems.
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 00156923)
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:  29th April, 2014

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