Vacancy title:
Security Officer

Jobs at:
Stanbic Bank

Deadline of this Job:
Open

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: 14th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

We offer all our clients a wide range of personal, business and corporate and investment banking products through 95 branches spread across Uganda and our online banking platforms.

JOB DETAILS:

Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).

Job Summary: The Officer Security is accountable for the Bank’s physical and other security operations. The role is aimed at ensuring tight security standards and disciplines are observed and entrenched across the Bank with the objective of influencing sustainable and efficient operations in line with Standard Bank Group security standards and regulatory guidelines.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Operational Performance

• Researches, develops and recommends strategic interventions for security operations with the aim of improving the bank’s security
• Monitors key security trends in the banking sector both locally and internationally and the external environment as a whole, and disseminates the same.
• Researches, develops and implements security interventions to continuously improve the bank’s security
• Aligns relevant security processes and procedures to ensure the achievement of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) signed with the various business units and customers
• Security Operations including
• Physical security (business, employees, customers, vendors)
• Electronic security channels
• Cash services
• Risk management
• Operations support management
• Processes and procedures review and updating
  Customer Service and Stakeholder Management
• Stakeholder Management - Maintain a close working relationship with the Bank’s Branch and Unit Heads management and Suppliers of goods and services so as to ensure that service/ support
• Involvement in security organisation meetings and briefing including the police and relevant security organisations
• Risk Management
• Identify risks affecting the security function within overall group security framework.
• Seek compliance based on risk matrix, staff awareness and education, security scoring and controls by ensuring that correct systems and procedures are implemented to reduce this risk.
• Ensure that routine checklists are actioned to ensure their adequacy and effectiveness.
• Action risk assurance and audit findings within agreed time frames.
• Drive for improved routine control and audit ratings through team member motivation and coaching.
• Participate in BCP programs to ensure adequacy of ergonomics.
  Security Asset Management
• Ensure asset movement is in line with bank policy by verification and final approval of such movements.
• Resource Utilisation
• Ensures effective, efficient and optimal utilisation of all resources (human and capital) to be responsive to competitive pressures, changing market conditions, client needs and business strategies
• Capacity management, identifying areas with excess or shortage in capacity and coming up with resourcing plans to address the gaps
• Operational Performance – Processes and Procedures
• Spearhead documentation, standardization, implementation and continuous improvement of country security operations processes and procedures.
• Continuous evaluation of operational security efficiencies and incorporation of best practice
  Control
• Identification and assessment of risks facing security thereby providing effective loss and risk management and so minimising the operational risks
•  Liaison with business stakeholders in ensuring that security regulatory, group policy standards and minimum operating procedures are observed to minimise the Bank’s exposure
  Occupational Safety and Security
• Ensure all business units are adequately and appropriately secured by means of alarms, guards where necessary, bullet proof glass, access restriction devices, CCTV, etc.
• Check that all security systems are functional and are regularly tested in line with Group Security Standards.
• Support the conducting of investigations for all incidents for reporting to Directorate of Occupational Health.
  Project Management
• Ensure the analysis, due process and implementation of security projects
• Post project analysis and feedback
  Self-Development
• Identifies appropriate formal and occupational (informal) training needs and courses (internal/external) to develop oneself
• Up-Skills oneself regarding new products and procedures through attendance of workshops/presentations and reading of internal and external communications

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the Stanbic Bank Officer Security job must be a University Graduate.
• Certification or experience from the disciplined forces in criminal investigations / forensics
• Three to four years of experience in security operations in a similar organisation
• Business Knowledge and Contribution
• Security Operations
• Risk Management
• Financial Management
• Banking Knowledge
• Experience in Security Operations
• Strategy Generation and Implementation