Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.
The Transactional Products and Services division is the engine that works constantly within Standard Bank to evolve and extend our range of products and client services. Split across three specialised functions, our teams work with organisations ranging from corporate clients and pension fund administrators through to asset managers and individual global investors. Our team now needs an experienced and highly capable Field Officer to optimise our range of solutions.
Stanbic IBTC Bank is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Who State / Field Officer
Job ID: 12804
Location: Nigeria
Division: Transactional Products and Services
Employment Type: Full Time - Permanent
Job Purpose
To provide operational excellence on the payment field by coordinating the payment activities of the who adhoc staffs.
Key Responsibilities
- Would be responsible for Counting Cash at the branches and inserting into standard envelopes for onward presentment to the WHO beneficiaries / vaccinators.
- Providing Risk management function of Checking that cash bag is intact after evacuation of cash from branch location to WHO payment site. Where there are discrepancies, he / she would be required to escalate to the HSS.
- Required to Bundle count envelopes to confirm cash & sort envelopes according to payment pattern in the DDM guideline.
- Hand over cash to ad-hoc personnel in company of security personnel to begin disbursement (attach disbursement ticket).
- Confirm completeness of cash per envelope in the presence of the assigned officer from paying branch
- Coordinate the operations of the ad-hoc staffs on the field of payments
- Provide operational excellence by leading the ad-hoc staffs to provide service in a professional and timely manner.
- Interface with the WHO state Admin Assistant/ HSS where there are payment policy GAPs or where clarification is required.
- Hand to WHO Admin Assistant /authorized signatory to counter sign where there are discrepancies that have been cleared.
- Conducts spot check on each payment point periodically.
- Execute payment of all Operational Expenses as stipulated (OPEX includes Ad-hoc personnel allowance, Police, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses in conjunction with the HSS (Ticket, receipt or authorized beneficiaries’ sign off must be provided for all payments made)
- Prepare payment summary report comprising Beneficiary payments & Operational Expenses Payments to HSS.
- Sign Off and Obtain WHO Admin Assistant/ Local Government Official’s Sign Off when necessary on the field
- Collate and hand Payment report, unpaid cash envelopes and activity cards to branch HSS for reconciliation purpose
- Reconcile WHO Project Report and prepare final payment report for the state/payment location detailing payments made & balances
- Forward Final Payment Report to Command Centre and Reconciliation Unit
- Liaise with Command Centre
- To maintain proper checks and controls within the unit and ensure that the Unit’s operations are in strict compliance with all relevant control standards - both internal to STANBIC IBTC and imposed by external regulators.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Qualifications
Technical Competencies:
- Demonstrate ability in quantitative analysis
- Should be conversant with Microsoft packages like EXCEL and MS word etc
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Must be able to take decision with little or not much supervision
- Good sense basic banking operations
Required Competencies
Personal competencies
- Strong communication skills: ability to build clear and effective communications that drive action
- Good listening and questioning skills
- Motivated to achieve personal targets and management objectives
- Highly developed customer focus and understanding of service quality principles
- Good inter-personal skills, team orientation locally and the ability to work closely with internal colleagues across units.
Application Closing Date
26th March, 2015
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online