Recruitment at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa's leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria UBA has grown to become a pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Treasury Sales Officer Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Increase sales of treasury products, ensuring profitability, while creating value and achieve market dominance in line with the bank’s strategic objectives.
• Track and analyze developments in the external environment and their implications on foreign currencies and securities to facilitate sales decisions.
• Ensure compliance with approved trader’s limit and daily open position limit.
• Seal and cover trades at competitive prices for customers.
• Source for key players in the industry in order to get share of wallet of their business.
• Reconcile transactions booked to ensure accuracy of information captured on the blotter.
• Capture all transactions processed bank-wide on FX blotter.

Preferred Competencies

• Broad knowledge of banking industry products and services.
• Good knowledge and understanding of foreign exchange market and operations
• Ability to interpret customer business needs, operational requirements with demonstrable ability to crunch numbers
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Projects and Power BI)
• Customer relationship management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong analytical skills.
• Risk awareness, passion for excellence and attention to detail
• Knowledge of CBN’s policies and the business environment
• Social Media and Tech Savvy.

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Job Title: Currency Trader Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Monitor global currency markets for price movements.
• Monitor and analyse developments in the external environment and their implications on third currencies to facilitate trading decisions.
• Evaluate technical analysis (charts) to identify trading opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with approved trade size and daily acceptable loss limits.
• Seal and cover trades at competitive prices for African subsidiaries, local banks and internal customers (Treasury Sales).
• Reconcile trades booked with platform blotter to ensure accuracy of information captured.
• Build and Maintain Relationships
• Build trust relationship with African subsidiaries, local banks and internal customers (Treasury Sales).
• Generate Daily Settlement for back-office (Treasury Ops FCY) by end of day for settlement
• Daily generation of trade blotter for submission to Market Risk/Internal Control/ Finance.

Preferred Competencies:

• Prepare EOM blotter and income statement for signoff by the Group Treasurer, Internal Control and Performance Management.
• Conduct market intelligence into third currencies activities and provide market commentary and views for the Treasury newsletter .
• Manage relationships in accordance with policies, procedures and legal requirements.
• Review Master Agreements with foreign and local banks for adequacy of content.
• Liaise with other market participants; and implement market development initiatives.

Report Generation:

• Generate reports for relevant stakeholders
• Generate Daily Settlement for Liquidity Management by end of day for funding

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Job Title: Head - Subsidiary Governance Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Monitor the activities of Company Secretaries in the various Anglophone Subsidiaries.
• Maintain appropriate enterprise-wide Subsidiary governance policies.
• Promote best practices of corporate governance in the Anglophone subsidiaries.
• Take custodianship of corporate governance portfolio for the various subsidiaries.
• Provide support to Directors of subsidiaries on governance issues.
• Prepare and administer the corporate calendar for the Anglophone subsidiaries.
• Standardize board packs and reporting formats for the Anglophone subsidiaries.
• Ensure the integration of subsidiaries added through acquisitions.
• Assist with implementation of structured changes & initiatives affecting the subsidiaries.
• Promote accountability of all Board Members and Management across the Group to Shareholders through improved transparency and disclosure
• Create a center of excellence for Subsidiary Governance.
• to Market Risk/Internal Control/ Finance.

Required Knowledge and skills

• Broad knowledge of banking industry products and services
• In-depth knowledge of organizational structure and corporate governance best practices.
• Knowledge of International law
• Project management knowledge,
• Strong interpersonal relationship and human capital management skills
• Excellent communication and interviewing skill
• Attention to details
• Bi-lingual i.e. speaks fluent English plus any other African official language.

Remuneration & Benefits Your pay is negotiable. We offer an attractive benefits package that is highly competitive.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply