Manager, Domestic Payments Job Placement – Stanbic Bank

Job Title:        Manager, Domestic Payments
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Job ID: 16474
About US:
Stanbic
Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is
in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading
banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading
banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking
group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest
bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of
banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking
(PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The Manager, Domestic Payments will oversee domestic
payments in all aspects of the business and is accountable for all domestic
payment teams and represents domestic payments at all internal forums.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Strategic Execution:
  • The incumbent provides leadership to the
    Domestic Payments team through implementation of best practices to meet
    the needs of the customers
  • Collaborates with the Manager, Payments to
    develop and operationalize plans to meet the domestic payments agenda and
    continuously analyses the payments process and measures it against benchmarks
    to ensure effective management of domestic payments
  • Manages Service Level Agreements with the
    various stakeholders / customers through understanding of requirements and
    service level expectations to ensure that the Domestic Payments function
    continues to meet and exceed the customers’ needs
2. Customer and Business
Partner Relationship Management:
  • The incumbent identifies customer service
    expectations, applies SLAs and aligns to the Customer Value Proposition in
    order to deliver an appropriate service;
  • Investigates customers’ complaints relating
    to payments by continuously interacting with the various customers to
    ensure high service levels by Payment function.
3. Cost Management:
  • Develops and implements tactical initiatives
    to reduce cost  to ensure that
    targets for the Domestic Payments function are met
  • Ensures that throughput is maximised
    throughout the payments function by implementing principles of Lean
    manufacturing and Six Sigma
4. Operational
Performance:
  • The jobholder identifies and defines operational
    performance metrics geared towards meeting Domestic Payments objectives by
    leveraging opportunities;
  • Collaborates with other areas through
    continuous interactions to ensure that best practices are implemented and
    a standard approach is followed;
  • Provides accurate and timeous MIS as per the
    matrix agreed with Centre (ROA Operations) to enable informed decision
    making.
5. Control:
  • Identifies, assesses and mitigates the risks
    facing both systems and business processes thereby minimising the operational
    risks.
  • Works closely with business stakeholders in
    ensuring that regulatory, group policy standards and minimum operating
    procedures are observed to minimise the Bank’s exposure to risk
5. People Management:
  • Facilitates a performance management and career
    development culture through mentoring and motivating in regular team and
    one-on-one meetings to ensure optimal performance and minimise staff
    turnover rate.
  • Ensures that the correct calibre of staff is
    recruited by participating in the recruitment process thereby ensuring the
    Domestic Payments function has the correct talent to meet the Strategic
    goals at all times.
  • Ensures that resources are skilled across the
    different processes to enable cross product and cross function workload
    balancing.
6. Self-Development:
  • Identifies appropriate formal and
    occupational (informal) training needs and courses (internal/external) to
    develop oneself.
  • Up-Skills oneself regarding new products and
    procedures through attendance of workshops/presentations and reading of internal
    and external communications
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Stanbic Bank Manager,
    Domestic Payments career opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in
    Business or a related field
  • Applicable certification
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in
    management of complex operations, ideally within the corporate financial
    service sector
  • Process / project management experience will
    be an added advantage
  • Skilled in building and maintaining
    relationships
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of the
    various products and systems used within payments.
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of
    corporate banking and the interface between frontline service, sales and
    support functions.
  • Comprehensive understanding of banking
    transaction processes relevant to products and services offered to
    customers.
  • Hands-on knowledge of how to input, access
    and utilize information to analyze forecast trends.
  • Working knowledge and principles of capacity
    management in terms of resource options, availability and costs.
  • Extensive knowledge of cost management
    principles and practices.
  • Knowledge of the applicable legislation.
How to Apply:
All
candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups,
Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by
visiting Link below.
Deadline: 18th April, 2016

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