Barclays Bank Jobs – Rigour Manager, Card Operations

Organisation: Barclays
Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Risk
& Governance

 

About Barclays
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).

 

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.

 

Job Summary: The Rigour
Manager will be responsible for;

  • Provide training on AML and KYC to all Staff
    (FTEs and out sourced)
  • Deliver KYC  account opening processes and
    updating of customers information within the business
  • Process change mandates in line with KYC
    guidelines
  • Co-ordinate account sampling process
  • Provide daily MI on non-compliant accounts
  • Manage workflow within the units
  • Undertake full responsibility on corresponding
    to Central Bank of UAE on Court orders as well as Financing for Commercial
    building inquiries
  • Conduct KYC account sampling for all new
    (retail as well as corporate) accounts opened and ensure remediation of
    non-compliant accounts.
  • Carry out ad hoc KYC account reviewing as and
    when required to do so

 

Key Duties &
Responsibilities:

1. KYC and AML
Training (30%)

  • Developing and
    maintaining all relevant training materials
  • Providing AML and
    KYC training to the staff
  • Ensuring achieving
    of minimum target of training the staff
  • Liaising with
    Compliance to update the training materials and adopt the best required
    approach
  • Liaising with
    Training Coordinator to ensure smooth and effective training schedules and
    granular MI is achieved

2. KYC Account
Sampling (50%)

  • Compilation and
    submission of periodic returns
  • Implement plans to
    rectify shortfalls in operational service in liaise with the Team Manager
  • Ensure effective
    escalation and resolution of operational issues
  • Compile and review
    on an ongoing basis performance figures/statistics and monitor against
    targets
  • Provide critical
    information for maintaining ongoing relationships with internal customers
  • Adhere to service
    levels within teams, internal customers.
  • Implement processes
    to ensure achievement of service levels
  • Initiate actions to
    overcome problems identified in meeting the service levels
  • Act as Key points
    person in policy and guidance cascading and escalation of issues
  • Implement the
    control and monitoring of performance within the unit   
  • Embed and
    control  performance measurement within the business
  • Oversee quality
    controls and checks within the units in order to maintain high standards
  • Adhere to procedural
    compliance which may include sorting Audit Exceptions and rigour issues.

3. Others (20%)

  • Support the Team in
    interpreting and communicating local and group policy covering operations
    within the team.
  • Ensure adherence to
    statutory legal and group requirements within the business
  • Ensure timely
    returns on regulatory and court requirements.
  • Ensure effective
    utilization of resources and maintaining appropriate staffing levels for
    KYC related duties.
  • Establish and
    maintain effective working relationship with internal customers.
  • Ensure that the
    integrity of the quality and service within the units is achieved

 

Qualifications, Skills
& Experience:

  • The
    applicant should possess previous experience to back office operations in
    a centralized environment.

  •  Previous
    experience of training and managing staff in a centralized environment.
  • Detailed knowledge
    of the Bank’s Policies and procedures covering back Office
  • Detailed knowledge
    of the Bank’s bookkeeping procedures, business rules and systems
  • General knowledge of
    services and regulatory requirements of Group reputational risk aspects
  • Good understanding
    of productivity/ performance  management techniques
  • Good understanding
    of risk controls and its applications
  • Risk management
    skills
  • Effective people
    management and delivery of complex challenges in rapid timescales
  • Multi disciplinary
    team facilitation and influence up to senior management levels in order to
    promote ideas and concepts as required
  • Communication / Influence
  • Good Planning /
    Organization skills
  • Performance
    Management skills
  • Problem Solving /
    Decision Making
  • 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:

 

 

Barclays
is an equal opportunity employer that 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

 

Deadline:  16th December,
2013

 

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