Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 19 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Finance Trust Bank was licensed as a Tier 1 Commercial Bank on 11th November, 2013, taking over the financial services business of Uganda Finance Trust Limited (MDI). Today Finance Trust Bank is a fully-fledged commercial bank serving a clientele of over 500,000 depositors and over 37,000 borrowers, through a network of 35 branches country wide. The bank offers a variety of Products and services including; Savings, Current accounts, Loans, Money transfer services and Bills payments to its target market which comprises of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, salary earners and youth.

In order to meet the needs of its growing customer base, the company is seeking to recruit dynamic, self-motivated, result oriented professionals to fill the following position;

Quality Assurance officer – Employee Banking
This position reports directly to the Head of Retail banking based at the Head Office.

Role of the job
To supervise and provide back office support to the Employee Banking team & Credit
Administration through conducting verification and quality checks on all Employee banking applications, accurately perform credit and fraud checks in accordance to laid down procedures to limit inaccurate documentation through authentication and mitigate the risk of fraud while ensuring adherence to high levels of customer service and turnaround time.

Key Result Areas:
Service Management:
1. Ensure all verification requests are acted upon and within agreed TAT in order for the applications to be sent to the next stage in the production line.
2. Pro-actively monitor workflows and queues to ensure that all vetted applications are processed until the final step of disbursement.
3. Ensure that verification emails or calls are done for all applications in a manner that conforms to the customer experience standards promoted by FTB.
4. Ensure that agreed service levels are adhered to or exceed and output is of required quality and control standards

Risk Management & Control:
1. Perform income, employment and identity verification accurately and within time to mitigate risk of fraud or falsification.
2. Contact Clients/Branches/Sales Staff with regards to outstanding information to ensure closure and onward processing of applications.
3. Identify discrepancies on the application documents as well as the supporting documents e.g. but not limited to pay slips, IDs, employment documents among others to ensure application quality.
4. Ensure compliance with all credit, fraud and compliance processes, policies and procedures.
5. Timely and proactively identify risks and opportunities and intimate the same to the line manager.
6. Maintain confidentiality and integrity of customers documents and information while performing your functions.
7. Proactively identify trends that may affect the quality of documents and ensure corrective action and escalation to the unit quality assurance supervisor timely.
8. Ensure target is maintained on a daily basis and hourly basis by following preplanned activities.

Reporting:
1. Ensure timely, appropriate, reliable and consistent reports are generated and made available to the line manager.
2. Assist where necessary with escalated documents queries that may relate to the verification and verdict process or escalate further where required.

Minimum educational and technical competence requirements:
• A Business degree in finance, Commerce, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, management or any relevant field.
• Possession of a Certified banking qualification or master’s degree in a relevant field would be an added advantage.
• At least 2 years in a supervisory role preferably in Credit or business
• Relevant Practical training in Employee banking product management.
• Understanding of banking principles, procedures, processes, services and products
• Understanding and appreciation of application documents
• Understanding of credit policies and procedures
• Computer literacy MS Outlook, Word, Excel.
• Ability to build functioning working relationships across organizational, corporate, and cultural boundaries.
• Ability to demonstrate positive image and role model FTB’s values and leadership behaviours.
• Must be a person of impeccable integrity.
• Solid and proven credit skills with relevant business experience and acumen.
• Must have critical thinking, analytical, attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Banking or similar environment of which 3 must be in a Sales, Schemes and People management function.
• Must have an in-depth understanding about Employee banking product features, pricing, benefits, positioning, design and promotions.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Suitably qualified candidates should address their application to Head, Human Resource, Finance Trust Bank, TWED PLAZA, Plot 22B, Lumumba avenue, Kampala, Uganda, and email it, as well as photocopies of academic testimonials, and a CV to Jobs@financetrust.co.ug. The CV should include telephone contacts and email addresses of three referees, one of who should be the most recent employer.

Closing date for submission of applications is 31st March, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted on Tel. Numbers 0312 222600 or 0414 341275 ONLY.


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