The Ugandan Jobline

Job Title:      Manager, Remittances,
Treasury Back Office and Trade Services

Organisation: KCB Bank

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Head
of Operations

About US:

KCB Bank Uganda which is part of KCB Group, East Africa’s
largest commercial bank that was established in 1896. Over the years, the Bank
has grown and spread its wings into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and
Burundi completing the East African circuit in the year 2012. Today, the Group
has the largest branch network in the region with over 238 branches, 950 ATMs
and 8,000 agents offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. KCB
Bank Uganda was established in the year 2007 and has grown to become one of
Uganda’s top ten commercial banks. Currently KCB Bank Uganda has 14 branches
complemented with 16 ATMs spread on Kampala Road, Commercial Plaza, Ben
Kiwanuka, Luwum Street, Oasis Mall Sixth Street, Arua, Elgon Masaba, Fort
Portal, Gulu, Hoima, Lira, Mbarara and Jinja that offer trade financing,
corporate and retail banking services to customers.

Job Summary:  The Manager, Remittances, Treasury Back Office
and Trade Services provides robust back office support to Treasury Front
office/Custody Services operations through timely and efficient processing of
customer transactions so as to achieve satisfactory customer service delivery, while
managing operational risk and ensuring cost optimization. The incumbent also
ensures and implements operational controls as well as ensuring seamless
processing and excellent service delivery in Trade Operations and Remittances
whilst ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal controls.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

·       
Ensure efficiency of operational activities in
the Remittances, Trade Finance operations and Treasury Bank Office functions.

·       
Ensure governance and compliance of the section
to set guidelines and procedures

·       
Oversee effective operational risk management,
control and governance processes and reliability of reporting information
through identifying and assessing key risks, driving appropriate control
measures and executing against key control self-assessments (KCSAs) agreed as
key.

·       
Ensuring Settlement, confirmation processing and
control, plus query resolution of treasury related products. Oversee the input
and processing of treasury transactions into the main accounting system in T24/BOU
CSD System.

·       
Oversee the BOU / Local payments function for
RTGS, EAPS for both customers & Interbank to International standards in
terms of timeliness, AML, CFT, FATF, safety, accuracy and integrity of
processes.

·       
Responsible for all Treasury management
reporting. This includes monthly Treasury Reports for senior management,
working with the business units globally on cash reporting and analysis, plus
ad-hoc projects and support to the Head of Treasury and Head of Operations
& Ensure accurate submission of all BOU regulatory returns.

·       
Ensure daily reconciliation of TreasuryCustody
Services transactions and suspense/GL accounts, Forex Positions and Forex
Income, Securities Books.

·       
Ensure adequate allocation of personnel and
material resources in the section for effective processing.

·       
Authorization of time bound outgoing swift
messages for FX Funds to ensure Transfer/Movement is delivered within the
defined SLAS.

·       
Ensure reconciliation of previous day’s closing
currency positions and compilation of position, trading Profit & Loss,
limits, back office gap/cash flow, monthly reports

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

·       
The ideal candidate for the KCB Bank Manager,
Remittances, Treasury Back Office and Trade Services job must hold a University
degree in Business related degree from a recognized and reputable institution.

·       
The job requires an individual with minimum of
four (4) years’ experience in banking. The experience should be in the areas of
Trade operations, Treasury back office operations and Remittance Operations-Customer
service and Relationship Management.

·       
The job holder is expected to exercise some
degree of discretion and decision making and must have knowledge in payments
interfaces i.e swift alliance, hot scan, RTGs &EAPs.

·       
A good understanding of Risk, Compliance
policies and procedures.

·       
Demonstrated consistent high performance in
role(s) held.

·       
Knowledge of the Banking Regulatory guidelines,
products and services.

How to Apply:

All candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link
below.

Click Here

Deadline: 28^th February 2020

For more of the latest jobs, please visit https://www.theugandanjobline.com or
find us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UgandanJobline

Related Jobs