Branch Manager Employment Opportunity – Finance Trust Bank (FTB)

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Job Title:  Branch Manager

Organisation: Finance Trust Bank (FTB)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Regional Manager

 

About US:

Finance Trust Bank (FTB) was licensed as a Tier 1 Commercial Bank on 11th November, 2013, taking over the financial services business of Uganda Finance Trust Limited (MDI). Today, Finance Trust Bank is a fully-fledged commercial bank serving a clientele of over 500,000 depositors and over 37,000 borrowers, through a network of 34 branches countrywide. The bank offers a variety of Products and services including; Savings, Current accounts, Loans, Money transfer services and Bills payments to its target market which comprises of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, salary earners and youth.

 

Job Summary: The Branch Manager will provide overall oversight of the branch in the operations of the bank by ensuring compliance to the laid down policies and procedures, business growth, human resource management, risk management, customer service, quality leadership as well as ensuring that staff are provided with the necessary working tools.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

HR Management

  • Cascade Branch performance targets to all
  • Appraise performance of Branch Accountant and Credit
  • Review performance appraisals for all staff in the
  • Enforcing the code of conduct/Discipline.
  • Develop the annual leave plan and manage leave uptake
  • Ensure staff attendance to work
  • Managing staffing in the Branch
  • Mentor and train staff
  • Review and recommend staff loan applications to the Head office staff loan

Administration and Logistics

  • Provide oversight over Bank assets
  • Ensure proper usage of Bank assets

Business growth

  • Grow Loan book/portfolio
  • Grow Savings portfolio
  • Grow the number of savings and loan customers
  • Ensure a quality loan portfolio
  • Grow the transactional income
  • Market FTB products
  • Review and approve loan applications
  • Performance reporting- Make periodic assessments of the performance of each staff against set targets
  • Ensure high staff productivity

Risk Management and compliance

  • Adhere to all policies and procedures
  • Ensure compliance to Audit, BCP, AML
  • Carry out spot checks on the portfolio of field officers in the field
  • Enforce the internal controls to ensure compliance to the BOU guidelines

Customer Service

  • Ensure good customer service

Planning & Budgeting

  • Review, consolidate, plan, control and monitor the annual and monthly branch budgets
  • Draw Branch staff budget

Leadership

  • Ensure activity plans are developed and enforced
  • Act as Chairperson in the Branch loan committees
  • Plan and coordinate branch activities to ensure smooth flow of operations
  • Represent the Bank in the area of operation at corporate events and ensure to portray a good image.
  • Review and evaluate branch lending and deposits operations to identify systematic risks and provide

Key Management

  • Ensure proper management of keys

Cash management

  • Approve daily cash transactions
  • Keep safe custody of strong room keys
  • Reconcile back office daily transactions in the system to ensure daily balancing and availability of financial resources at the Branch all of the time.


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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Marketing, Accounting, Business Administration, social sciences or any other related business discipline gained from a recognized university.
  • At least three years of work experience as a Credit Supervisor, Branch Accountant and Regional Credit Administrator with a good performance record and no record of disciplinary issues in the last one
  • Commercial banking experience is an added
  • Good analytical and report writing
  • Computer literacy is a
  • Highly organized person with ability to
  • Ability to work well under pressure and with minimum
  • Good written and oral communication
  • Good interpersonal
  • High level of integrity and self-initiative.
  • Willingness to work in the field at least 60% of the
  • Willingness to work outside the Central Business District of Kampala
  • Motorcycle riding skill is an added

 

Position carries an attractive salary and benefits package.

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should address their application to Head, Human Resource, Finance Trust Bank, Plot 115 & 121, and Katwe. P.O. Box 6972, Kampala, Uganda, and email it, as well as photocopies of academic testimonials, and a CV to jobs@financetrust.co.ug. The CV should include telephone contacts and email addresses of three referees, one of who should be the most recent employer.

 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted on Tel. Numbers 0312 222600 or 0414 341275 ONLY. Please note: As per Bank procedures, No job offers are made online.

 

Deadline: 10th October 2022

 

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