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Barclays Bank Job Opportunities – Branch Operations Manager- Shauriyako
Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Barclays
Africa:
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).
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.
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 Barclays Branch Operations Manager will drive, grow and deliver
exceptional Retail branch operations performance as well as customer service,
through the provision of influential and consistent leadership; vibrate control
environment, efficient business management; team development and achievement of
operational/administrative excellence in the Branch. The job holder will
support the Branch Manager in daily operational activities in the branch.
exceptional Retail branch operations performance as well as customer service,
through the provision of influential and consistent leadership; vibrate control
environment, efficient business management; team development and achievement of
operational/administrative excellence in the Branch. The job holder will
support the Branch Manager in daily operational activities in the branch.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
1. Operational Rigour & Compliance: 40%
- Print and review daily
systems reports. Allocate report sections to the correct departments for
follow-up. - Reconcile internal and
P&L accounts and submit to branch manager for sign-off. - Monitor daily cashier
differences by reviewing the systems reports and raising any issues
identified with the Branch Manager. - Compile and submit
monthly summary of the cash differences for the Branch Manager. - Act as third checker for
cash entering or leaving the branch. Cash is primarily handled by Cash/ATM
Custodians – the Branch Coordinator only performs a support function. - Act as second key holder
to the vault as an alternate as required. - On a daily basis, check
stock reconciliations for all account items as completed by individual
Inquiries Advisors. Escalate any differences to the Branch Manager
immediately. - Allocate snapchecks to
branch staff. - Collate snapcheck results
and provide information to the Branch Manager including recommended
remediation. - Follow-up on the
implementation of remediation. - Hold keys for safe
custody boxes to act as second custodian when customers deposit or
retrieve items, together with the Retail Support person. Receive from or
release safe custody items to customers as required. - Receive all returned
mail, do a telephonic follow up with customer to get a new address or flag
the account to ensure that customer provides a new address when they next
contact the bank. - Interface with the Retail
Operational Support person from Head Office during their preparation for
bi-annual branch visits. Highlight any rigour training requirements and
provide documentation to assist with their control checks. - Occasionally present
formal training to branch staff on rigour topics. - Authorize cashier transactions
above the Retail Support limits. - Resolve customer queries
escalated from anywhere in the branch and those received directly – direct
enquiries are received primarily by telephone as the Branch Coordinator is
not in the frontline. - Resolve pay/no pay
decisions above the transaction limit of the Retail Support and coach them
on decisions which they are not yet comfortable to make. - Where applicable,
complete branch call over procedures.
2. Customer Service Championing: 30%
- Induct, develop and support
a high performing front line team through embedding performance
development and coaching to drive customer service. Ensure that team
members receive coaching and feedback in order to develop to achieve the
customer service agenda. - Review and analyze service
measurement scores and agree actions to improve with branch team. - Motivate colleagues and
ensure they are recognized through the Barclays Africa recognition schemes - Pursue your own
development to increase personal effectiveness and acknowledge strengths
and areas of development. - Organize Monthly meetings
with the branch team to provide holistic feedback on Service performance
and meet regularly with Line Manager/key stakeholders to discuss new
developments, issues arising and any relevant team matter. - Ensure that our people
and service they provide become and continue to be the winning
differentiator. - In a way, the Branch
Operations Manager will lead, be a role model for your colleagues, do
things whole heartedly; communicate with passion and embrace change as a
way of working. - Manage daily attendance
levels within the branch in accordance with HR policies. - Provide honest, direct
and constructive feedback to others. - Own and manage the
customer queries and complaints end to end process, resolving and responding
to customer issues in a timely manner as per policy guidelines to ensure
the provision of seamless world class customer service. - Continuously measure and
monitor agreed Service Standards by completing and maintaining a balanced
score card for the branch e.g. Account opening/Loan TAT, complaints
handling, mystery shopping, survey statistics, cheque book processing, ATM
processing, Queue time etc. - Analyze and review
performance MI to assist in evaluating the efficiency of the team an - Monitor the changing
needs of the customers, liaising with internal and external customers to
identify areas of improvement and make recommendations for service
improvements and implementing those improvements to the satisfaction both
internal and external customers. - Come up with and
effectively roll out initiatives to improve the customer’s experience,
create customer retention & loyalty and Teams’ business performance.
3. Business Management: 15%
- At least once a week,
walk through the branch (front and back office) to determine whether there
are any maintenance requirements to furniture, fixtures, premises or
equipment. - Work closely with third
party providers (including suppliers, security, cleaners) to ensure
adherence to SLAs and to obtain quotations for maintenance. Refer
quotations received to the Branch Manager for approval and signoff.
Interface with premises/procurement where guidance is required. - Receive invoices for
third party service provider payments for the branch. Check and collate
invoices for Branch Manager signoff before sending to Accounts Payable for
payment. - Obtain expense actuals
from financial control on a monthly basis, compare against budgets and
provide exception reports to the Branch Manager for action as well as
summary reports for the Branch Manager to include in their performance
dashboard reports. - Compile a monthly report
on cashier productivity by collating daily systems data and provide an
overall summary to branch manager. Highlight any exceptional under or
high-performance. - Act as one of two systems
administrators for password resets and user maintenance. - Report all branch systems
failures to local IT helpdesk conduct systems checks as directed by IT and
ensure any unresolved issues are taken up by IT. Escalate outstanding
issues to the Branch Manager when required. - Work with the team to
achieve set sales & service objectives through in-branch business
development activities, effective Banking Hall management; proactive
customer interaction and providing feedback to the team. - Ensure that merchandising
materials are displayed in accordance with TCF guidelines monitor stock
levels and feedback requirements to respective Merchandising Coordinator.
Brief Staff on promotional and product launches; provide regular feedback
on customer responses and reactions. - Make sure that the look
and feel of the branch is up to Barclays’ standards and engage respective
stakeholders for remedial actions where branch is not compliant. - Through effective banking
hall management ensuring that customers are directed to the most
appropriate service delivery channel to meet their needs; provide leads as
per targets agreed with Branch Manager to improve business performance.
4. Administration: 10%
- Provide cover for Branch
Manager when required. - Provide honest, direct and
constructive feedback to others to achieve exceptional service and
business performance. - Share knowledge,
experience and best practice with team members and colleagues within the
business. - Work cross functionally
with the key service providers/stakeholders to ensure seamless service to
customers.
5. Community:
5%
5%
- Be involved in local
community events and networking opportunities (e.g. clubs, meetings,
business associations) - Identify community
initiatives to become involved in and support as part of Barclays
community initiatives (such as Make a Difference Day, Local community
initiative, Financial Literacy) - Link community
initiatives to both business opportunities and colleague events - Promote community agenda
within the branch to build pride within colleagues and customers - Perform any other duties
as assigned from time to time.
Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must
have completed a High school diploma with Math and English passed at a
higher grade - At least two to three
years’ experience in a banking hall environment in multiple functions - The candidate should have
a high level of working knowledge of all the Bank’s retail products,
procedures and policies - Extensive understanding
of all Retail operational processes - Detailed knowledge of all
the bank’s branch systems - Some knowledge of audit
process is highly desirable - Prior Internal audit
experience in a retail banking environment - Excellent communication
skills both verbal and written - Good listening and
questioning skills - Keen eye for detail
- Excellent analytical
skills - Good PC skills
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:
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 00156014)
Here -> Job Number (Type 00156014)
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer that
recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and rewards outstanding
performance, regardless of background and gender.
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
barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline: 28th April, 2014
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