Job Purpose Statement

The Head of Credit Risk Advisory Group is primarily responsible for:

• Leading a team of Credit Risk Advisory Mangers in delivery of Turn Around, Restructure & Managed Exit strategies to a portfolio of corporate watch accounts experiencing financial distress.
• Determining objectives, strategies and actions that need to be adopted to address business risk issues. Reduce Bank’s risk and achieve turn around, restructure and managed exit solutions so that the bank realises maximum return in the shortest time possible.
• Acting as a point of contact for the Deputy Director, CRAG & Corporate Recoveries to discuss specific problems and acting as a ‘’sounding board’’ recommending appropriate solutions and strategies to achieve the bank’s objectives.
• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure early detection, referral and adoption of problem accounts to Credit Advisory.
• Provide secondary support to the relationship team on a n problem accounts managed under the Normal category.
• Representing to relevant stakeholders ongoing status of the portfolio being managed

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business management discipline in either of Finance, Business, and Economics, Mathematics / Statistics or related field from a reputable institution.

Professional:

• Comprehensive banking background and extensive experience in credit appraisal and loan portfolio management.
• Experience in engaging C-level management and senior executives in facilitating decisionmaking and reporting.
• Extensive understanding of business and financial fundamentals, with mathematical aptitude & advanced accounting skills.
• Ability to coach, mentor, train and transfer skills to others.

Desired work experience:

• At least ten years’ experience with at least five years at senior management level in an active corporate environment or credit risk management.
• Ability to coach, mentor, train and transfer skills to others.

Job Purpose Statement

This is an ICT specialist role whose purpose is to provide effective and efficient support,development and system administration to the bank’s integration and middleware landscape including Channel Manager, ICON and their suite of products and other integration and middleware services deployed within the bank.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

Application Development 30%

• Provide Second and third Level technical & application
• Support for the banks integrations and middleware including Channel Manager and related integration systems and supporting environments
• Facilitate integrations and middleware performance tuning, application upgrades, documentation of procedures and overall system optimization to ensure
• excellent user experience and customer service

Incident / Problem Management 40%

• Resolve any incidents causing interruption of service in the quickest and most effective way possible according to defined SLA's.
• Ensure availability of 24 hour on-call support on the integrations and middleware and provide remedial actions so as to observe service level agreements with business

Change Management 10%

• Execute System integration testing and subsequent
• implementation of system upgrades, hotfixes, patch releases and CR deployments
• Participate in running integrations and middleware projects as the Technical Resource

IT Governance and Security 10%

• Key systems configurations to ensure generation and maintenance of audit trails for any changes occurring in sensitive databases are captured and secured

Business Continuity Management 10%

• Flag areas having inadequate DR, work with IT Infrastructure and Manager Core Systems towards mitigating actions where applicable to enable business operations if BAU fails (specific to Digital Channel Systems). Test and
• Document Disaster Recovery Procedures

Ideal Job Specifications

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant IT degree from a University with a reputable curriculum.
• Training and applied knowledge in Digital Channels Support, Unix and Oracle
• Training and hands on experience with Systems Integrations, Middleware, Banking EChannels and Card systems
• Three year’s practical proven experience in installing, setup, support and troubleshooting of 3 tiered application architecture, including web technology support e.g. Jboss, WebLogic and IIS.
• Proven experience in supporting banking channels (mobile, internet, ATMs etc)
• Proven experience in systems analysis, design, implementation and support.
• Proven experience in SQL Scripting

Ideal Job Specifications

• Proven knowledge of banking operations, operations in business units and business impact analysis.
• Thorough knowledge of the Bank’s core banking system.
• Proven knowledge of banking operations, operations in business units and business impact analysis
• A good understanding of Operating systems; particularly Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Operating systems.