Banking Jobs In Ghana January 2020

Reputable Banks in Ghana  like Standard Chartered Bank, First National Bank and others are searching for qualified candidates to fill their Banking jobs in Ghana in January 2020. 

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Credit Analyst - Standard Chartered Bank

The Role Responsibilities

• Interact with the client, gather deal requirements, financial statements and other inputs required to perform quality analysis and due diligence.
• Work with RM/product partners in structuring credit solutions for the clients and ensuring the appropriateness of the products.
• Work with the RM in
• Obtaining all pre-deal clearances like ER negativity, segmentation etc.
• Preparing and presenting work-shopping note
• Expediting approvals
• Responsible for end-to-end BCA process including preparing all the tools including scorecard, in depth analysis of various risks, quality presentation and ensuring fast credit approval.
• Ensure compliance of all internal and regulatory credit/other portfolio related policies e.g. Preparing country portfolio standards checklist, other special reporting requirements

• Liaise with GAM credit for limit approval and allocation
• Seek necessary approvals for excesses in an account.
• Call reporting after visits, discussions or interactions with client.
• Assessment of the Client’s competitive positioning within its industry;
• Discussion of management strength, experience and track record and corporate governance more broadly;
• Articulation of the Client’s strategy and an assessment of its clarity and associated execution risks;
• Assessment of balance sheet strength, alongside cashflow and profitability vulnerability, via ratio analysis and/or stress testing;
• Discussion of other pertinent risk aspects, including country risk, parental and/or governmental linkage/support, relative ranking of indebtedness;
• Evaluation of risks associated with particular proposed transactions, where required;
• Ensure use of appropriate calculator in alignment with Credit Policy for relevant approvals (e.g. Raptor, Group Aggregation Calculator);
• Complete ESRA (Environment and Social Risk Assessment) Checklist;
• For Cat 2 lines, complete Financial Markets Appropriateness and GWWR Attribute checklist;
• For Cat 2 lines, Credit Term Sheet updates based on RM/Risk/MDU feedback;

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Analyst, Accounts Payable - Standard Chartered Bank

The Role Responsibilities

Indexing and Processing:

• Index and process all payment requests received from spokes (Local Currency Payment, Foreign Currency Payments, Cross Border Recharges, Staff claims) timely. Urgent payments should be prioritized at all times.
• Complete processing of daily volumes as assigned within the team.
• Ensure that repairs and rejects are despatched within the assigned time.
• High level of processing accuracy. Operational losses to be nil.
• Ensure Customer Satisfaction and Complaints to be at the bare minimum level.
• Ensure invoices/documents are thoroughly verified with adequate approvals wherever applicable.
• Ensure staff account setups/amendments instructions are carried out timely.

Controls and Reconciliations:

• Be familiar with the Financial Control Policy and notes as well as all other policies applicable to Accounting Operations
• Responsibility for daily and monthly reconciliations of Trade Creditors, Receivables, Online Suspense, Payment System, Intersystem’s accounts to ensure integrity of the balances in the Transaction Processing systems.
• Integrity of data in the Bank’s General Ledger.
• Maintain accuracy and integrity of all processing and static data.

Functional Coordination:

• Resolve mailbox queries/phone queries from countries within the assigned time.
• Duplicate, Rejection, Non e-Procurement processed, Purchase Order Overridden, Outside Staff Claims Processed, Pending Credit Notes, SLA Misses, Pending Payments, Errors, Customer Complaint and Delegation of Authority breach should be highlight to the Manager promptly.
• All the appropriate trackers are being maintained on a consistent basis.
• In case of any Turnaround Time miss or and wrong payment, reports same to Manager immediately

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Principal Quantitative Risk Officer - African Development Bank

The overall purpose of Principal Quantitative Risk Officer at the African Development Bank is to identify and monitor credit and market risks, review and ensure the integrity of quantitative risk models, determine the Bank’s economic and capital adequacy, and the reasonableness of their assumptions. The selected candidate should ensure compliance with the Bank’s risk management guidelines, capital adequacy policy, International Financial Reporting Standards 9 requirements, and formulate, review and update credit and market risk policies, guidelines and procedures.

Duties and responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Division Manager, the responsibilities of the Principal Quantitative Risk Officer are:

• Lead the development, enhancement and maintenance of the quantitative risk analytics and models (market, counterparty, ALM and credit risks), methodologies and frameworks. Such projects may for example include the design and implementation of quantitative tools in areas such as ALM strategy, Market and Credit VaR, and Stress Testing;

• Responsible for the identification, measurement, analysis, monitoring and mitigation of the credit, counterparty, market and liquidity risks borne by the Bank’s treasury and lending activities;
• Provide analytical advice on the structuring, pricing and exposure measurement for the Bank’s banking and treasury portfolios, ALM and hedging;
• Conduct the implementation, validation and back testing of quantitative risk models;
• Review, report and ensure compliance of the Bank with its capital adequacy framework and accounting standards such as International Financial Reporting Standards;
• Assess and advise on the impact of proposed changes in Bank-wide policies on risk management methodologies, systems and practices;
• Represent risk management at internal committees, cross-departmental working groups, external rating agency presentations, internal and external auditors’ meetings, new  atransactions and legal documentation discussions with the counterparties;
• Oversee risk methodologies and documentation and obtain approval from internal and external auditors;

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Operations Assistant - African Development Bank

Duties and responsibilities

The Operations Assistant will carry out the following duties and responsibilities:

• Provide operational support to the Division Manager;
• Manage the electronic data archiving system of the Division
• Manage the division’s database and perform any task related to data entry and analysis as required;
• Coordinate the preparation and monitoring of the annual Work Programme;
• Coordinate the preparation and monitoring of the quarterly mission programme;
• Compile the portfolio database of the division / department (Non-Sovereign Operations, complex projects, trust funds, special initiatives, co-financing);
• Compiles and present data on projects (managed by the regional hubs) related to the sectors under the division / department;
• Report on accuracy and completeness of SAP, BPPS & SRAS data;
• Prepare and Monitor the implementation of the administrative budget and determine/recommend allocation of funds when necessary;
• Assist with recruitment of consultants, initiate SAP processing of their contracts, prepare service orders, process their payments and follow them up with the Accounting and Treasury units concerned

• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports on the management and performance of the division activities;
• Facilitate training on the use of the Bank-wide Project Processing Schedule (BPPS), SAP;
• Assist in preparing documents, briefing notes, spreadsheets and correspondence necessary to manage work programme and projects / programmes;
• Assist in the preparation and organization of activities such as seminars, workshops etc.

OTHER DUTIES 

• Coordinate matters with the Corporate IT Services Department (CHIS), if necessary, for all issues relating to the SAP / BPPS / ATRS / SRAS system and other information technologies; play the role of SAP resource person in the division and the department; provide technical assistance to the staff in the use of SAP;
• Take notes during meetings, draft correspondence and prepare minutes as requested;
• Perform any other tasks requested by the Division

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Transactional Sales Manager - First National Bank

The Transactional Sales Manager at First National Bank is to evaluate and define requirements for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation

responsibilities

• Understand the critical micro-environmental impacts and relationships i.e. client performance trends, client financial data,competitive positioning in the sector to identify relevant sales solution tactics
• Understand key competitors, new technologies, sector dynamics and key
• Macro environmental forces to analyse and identify sector-wide opportunities and challenges for transactional sales
• Contribute to the attainment of the Transactional banking budget by formulating annual tactics for the sector to enable enhanced revenue growth. This planning is in collaboration with Transactional banking Product teams,other Corporate Banking teams and Coverage
• Provide consistent, professional and superior delivery of sales and client management disciplines including pipeline ownership, RFP responses, proactive proposals, presentations, call reports, leadgeneration, and implementation oversight
• Manage deal pipeline processes, assemble the appropriate deal team and work with product management to package the best solution

• Price solutions appropriately withinthe context of broader relationship pricing to ensure profitability and competitive positioning (with support of Pricing and Product)
• Display an in- depth knowledge of relevant systems and interdependencies between these systems
• Work with data inputs eg. MIS, activity and pipeline reporting to build origination and growth projection models that are integrated and forward looking
• Manage projects to ensure successful deployment of origination and cross-sell initiatives
• Assess effectiveness of Sales tacticsby measuring revenue target achievements, qualified leads, reduced sales cycles, and value creation for the client

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Service Manager - First National Bank

The Service Manager at the First National Bank is responsible for activities associated with the identification prioritisation and resolution of reported problems.

responsibilities

• Drive significant growth and profitability in the context of cost management.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members.
• Achieve Retention by managing the service breakdown activities as listed in the Service Operations Plan.
• Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
• Prepare business communication that is of a professional standard.
• Perform Internal Root Cause Analysis to present the Internal Root Cause Analysis to the relevant stakeholders and facilitate process to design and implement appropriate solutions to remedy the situation.
• Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.

• Draft and implement frameworks, methodologies, guidelines and procedures to support Root cause analysis as a discipline in the business.
• Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analyzing trends and data.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies.
• Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies and increase competencies.

additional requirements

“Ghanaian applicants preferred”

experience and qualifications

• Appropriate technical qualification.
• 5-6 Years experience.

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