First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. The Bank has been named "The Best Bank Brand in Nigeria” four times in a row - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - by the globally renowned "The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; and "Most Innovative Bank in Africa” in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2014. FirstBank’s brand purpose is to always put its customers, partners and all stakeholders at the heart of its business, even as it is poised to standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across Sub Saharan Africa, in consonance with its brand vision "To be the partner of first choice in building your future”. Our brand promise is to always deliver the ultimate "gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on FirstBank’s inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position our customers first in every respect.
Job Description
- Manage centralized reconciliation processes at the HUB
- Drive centralization of Reconciliation process across the bank network (Nigeria, and SSAs)
- Recons process design- Analyze and interpret process dynamics to design suitable processes of reconciliation or monitoring
- Interact with account owners and operations teams to have a good knowledge of their process and data for effective migration of their manual reconciliation to TLM Corona.
- Drive process improvement, optimization, and automation of reconciliation process.
- Change Management – drive and coordinate assigned GRU change management as relates reconciliation activities.
- Project Delivery- Drive timely delivery of GRU projects-automation and reconciliation projects
- Managing information and data risks as related to reconciliation data
- Foster a risk awareness culture into people, processes, and systems within G&C to mitigate risk exposure from Reconciliation breaks
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of reconciliation data.
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs.
- Identify and define new process improvement opportunities.
- Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Liaise with Vendor and ensure that all reconciliation tools are maintained as when due.
- The first point of contact in data mining and management on Recons.
- Manage and resolve stakeholder issues on reconciliation matters.
- Provide Reconciliation data/MIS periodically to management for decision making
- Provide reconciliation data to stakeholders on requests (internal and external parties)
- Ensure regulatory compliance in reconciliation processes and data exchange- PCI DSS, CBN
Job Requirements:
- Minimum Education: First degree in any discipline
- Certifications in Database languages and Advance Excel will be an advantage.
- Minimum of 5 years banking experience.
- Experience on Process management and I.T Knowledge
- Database languages skills.
- Proficient in the design and use of Excel Macros and various MS Office automation tools.
- Previous knowledge in banking operations and recons is key
Method of Application
Signup to view application details.
Signup Now