Job Title: Enterprise and Market Risk Officer
Organisation: Housing Finance Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports To: Manager, Enterprise and Market Risk
About the Company:
Housing Finance Bank, is a Commercial Bank and the leading provider of housing finance solutions with a vision to be the preferred consumer and business bank with a focus on housing finance.
Job Summary:
- The role is accountable for developing and implementing policies and procedures that reduce Enterprise and Market Risk for the bank and managing the building of financial models that predict Enterprise & Market Risk exposure to the organization.
- The role holder will be responsible for the oversight and management of the Bank’s interest Rate Risk, Currency/Foreign Exchange Risk, Liquidity Risk, market risk and overall Enterprise Risk.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitoring of trading limits.
- Verify daily revaluation rates used for trading.
- Weekly snap check on the Treasury Voice recording system.
- Participate in Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
- Review of securities trading process.
- Carry out other critical processes snap checks consistent with the approved timetable and workplan.
- Participating in risk appetite assessment and strategic alignment review.
- Participate in formulation and updating of the Bank’s recovery framework.
- Coordinate Business recovery planning activities as per Recovery planning workplan.
- Conduct trainings to create awareness regarding risk identification, controlling, measuring and monitoring in areas of enterprise and market risk.
- Follow up implementation of actions agreed in the departmental Risk Management forums and processes.
- Coordinate activities of risk champions as well as assess their performance on a quarterly basis.
- Undertake Liquidity risk monitoring.
- Initiate the stress testing process of the bank in key risk areas as per workplan.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by management from time to time.
- Financial Responsibility: N/A
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A Business degree in Risk, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Management and any relevant field.
- Possession of a Certified Banking qualification or Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
- Relevant Practical training in Enterprise and Market risk in the financial services sector.
Skills & Experience
- A minimum of 5 years banking experience with at least 4 of it being in the operations, strategy and Market risk management domain.
- Good understanding of Risk management principles.
- Possess strong problem-solving skills. (hypothesis-driven thinking, analytical, quantitative and conceptual skills)
- Thorough understanding of the evolving practices for the management of enterprise, Market and regulatory requirements.
- Able to source data, perform periodic computations and report on findings.
- Good Knowledge of the bank’s operational policies and procedures.
- Expert Knowledge of process re-engineering and model development required.
Business Behaviours
- The ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form in a professional manner is deemed essential.
- Ability to build functioning working relationships across organisational, corporate and cultural boundaries.
- Takes clear accountability and focusses on delivery of corporate goals.
- Team Player
- Provides extraordinary service.
- Must be a person of impeccable integrity
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit their applications with a recent CV, copies of all academic transcripts, certificates and testimonials, daytime telephone contact, postal and email address and three competent referees to:
Chief Human Resources Officer
Housing Finance Bank,
Investment House
4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo
Please take note that all applications should be sent by email to [email protected]
DO NOT HAND DELIVER YOUR APPLICATION
Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
Guidelines for submitting Documents.
- Ensure that all your documents are scanned and submitted in 1 single batch using the following order:
- Application letter
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Academic Documents and Certificates
- The maximum document size is 10 MB.
- Please indicate the name of the position you are applying for in the subject.
- For regular internal staff to be eligible, you must have held your substantive position for at least two (2) years and have a consistent satisfactory performance with no disciplinary record over the immediate consecutive past two years.
Deadline: 3rd April 2025
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