Senior Treasury Information Systems Officer at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

African Development Bank Group (AfDB) - Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries).

The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 - 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas (High 5s), all of which will accelerate our delivery for Africa, have been identified for scaling up, namely; energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration and improving the quality of life for the people of Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Treasury Information Systems Officer - FITR0

Reference: ADB/18/111
Location: Côte d’Ivoire
Grade: PL5
Position N°: 50066476

The Complex

• The Vice Presidency for Finance oversees the financial management of the Bank Group
• This encompasses the Bank Group’s treasury activities including borrowings from the capital markets and investment activities; controllership functions including financial reporting and loan administration; strategic resource mobilization and the strengthening of the non-statutory financial resources and instruments; the overall asset/liability management for the Bank Group.

The Hiring Department/Division

• The Treasury department is responsible for raising funds from capital markets, managing and investing the Bank Group's liquidity and shareholders' funds, processing and settlement of all financial transactions and managing the institution's banking relationships.

The Position
Under the supervision of the Director, the Senior Treasury Information Systems Officer has the responsibility to:

• Coordinate Treasury IT projects by identifying users' requirements and implementing technical solutions. Assist in design and/or coordinate all IT activities. Support teams to implement new projects, systems upgrade and integration interfaces to streamline treasury operations and minimize operational risks.
• Provide support to Treasury IT budget by preparing, implementing and reporting on administrative and capital budget.
• Prepare reports on all IT related activities on a weekly , monthly or quarterly basis and keep an appropriate dashboard

Duties and Responsibilities
The Senior Treasury Information Systems Officer will have the following specific deliverables:

Coordinate Treasury IT projects:

• Identify business requirements by engaging with the users and initiate new projects.
• Propose strategic directions by conducting researches and recommend appropriate IT infrastructures, products, tools and services that meet the business requirements and comply with financial market regulations and technology state-of-the-art and trends to support near and long term objectives.
• Propose the design of technical infrastructure architecture solutions and support teams to design, develop and implement new systems and off-the-shelf packages.
• Provide support to teams to migrate/upgrade systems and interfaces integrations to streamline treasury operations and minimize operational risks.
• Coordinate the IT procurement to acquire the packages and consultant services by elaborating terms of reference, expressions of Interest, RFP and coordinating the bid evaluations, contracts negotiations and systems/services delivery.
• Coordinate IT training by identifying the training requirements with users and engaging negotiations with providers to plan and organize training sessions.
• Establish relationships with third parties by engaging discussions and surveys with software vendors, IT professional associations and other multilateral development banks and investment banks to ensure benchmarking with the latest treasury technologies and cost efficiency.
• Maintain Treasury IT portfolio by monitoring the status and challenges of existing systems, on-going projects and future/prospective projects, and, hold presentations to management.

Maintain and Support of Treasury Systems:

• Coordinate teams for the installations and daily administration/assistance of Treasury packages such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Tradeweb, Euclid, Swift, Summit, GTMATCH, JP Morgan Morcom, CitiDirect, etc.
• Develop awareness capacity on the financial market regulations evolvement and related technology state-of-the-art and manage the acquisition of or migrations to new versions of Treasury systems to ensure full compliance. This includes and not limits to: electronic trading platforms (such as Bloomberg, FX Trading Platform, Tradeweb, etc), payment and settlements systems such as Swift and Euroclear Euclid, EasyWay, Triweb, Taxgenic, etc) and reconciliation packages such as GTMATCH, etc.
• Propose changes to improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of Treasury operations by monitoring the state-of-the-art technology and financial market regulations.
• Facilitate audit sessions, provide responses and implement solutions to audit recommendations.
• Coordinate the Treasury web site content management and provide assistance to the web coordinators.
• Coordinate for Treasury the business continuity plan (BCP) and systems
• Ensure the resiliency of treasury systems by proposing backup solutions or validating solutions proposed by IT department to prevent prolonged interruption in case a system becomes unavailable.
• Provide Support to the Treasury IT budget:
• Identify the treasury IT requirements by engaging discussions with the users and IT service providers. Prepare investment and administrative IT budget and participate in the arbitration process for approval.
• Provide technical support to Treasury management team for decision making regarding IT budget.
• Coordinate the implementation by monitoring the execution, control and readjustment of IT budget.
• Undertake end-year budget carry over and reporting.

Prepare Reports:

• Weekly, monthly and global reports on IT projects and all IT activities relating to Treasury department
• Write project feasibility studies, project management documents, implementation status reports, project closure reports and presentations to management and project teams.
• Terms of reference, request for proposal, bids evaluation reports and negotiations reports for acquisition of packages and the recruitment of technical consultants
• Technical documentations, Budget implementation reports, Responses to Audit reports, etc.
• Portfolio management reports, Report on users trainings, Minutes of technical meetings.

Perform any other duties as may be assigned.

Selection Criteria
Including desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Hold at least a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or in a related discipline.
• Have a minimum of five (5) years of Treasury IT specialist professional experience in a similar position particularly in applications development and support of trading room specific packages. Preferably, practical experience of IT management in multilateral development institutions, banking, treasury management, or comparable professional practice
• Having private sector experience will be an added advantage.
• Additional graduate degree in Finance or business administration.
• Excellent skills in project management and IT services delivery management
• Good understanding of financial market, investment and treasury operations management front to back.
• Good understanding of trading rooms and treasury operations and supporting IT technologies.
• Good knowledge of inter-actions between different systems used in the Bank and the treasury specific packages.
• Good knowledge of tools (Visual Studio, PL/SQL, JAVA, C++, .Net, PHP, etc.) and Relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as ORACLE and SQLSERVER.
• Knowledge of environment of the packages providing financial market data and treasury operations management.
• Capacity to work independently without direct supervision or assistance from software providers is a must.
• Ability to conduct new development projects, systems integration and build financial models using real time market data.
• Good sense of pro-activity to elaborate disaster recovery and backup solutions to ensure the business continuity of the treasury service.
• Competence in the use of Bank standards software (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint).
• Ability to communicate and write effectively in French or English, preferably with a working knowledge of the other language.

Application Closing Date
25th July, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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