Career Opportunities at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

Requisition ID: 18000009
Code: No: STR/RCAM/0251
Schedule: Regular

Job Description

• The position of Recovery Officer is vacant within the Remedial and Classified Assets Management department and we are seeking to engage a suitably qualified and self-motivated individual to fill the role.
• Reporting to the Recovery Team Lead, the successful candidate will be responsible for the aggressive recovery of delinquent accounts and reduction of bad debt portfolio through the accurate appraisal of the Bank’s debtors and the adoption of proactive strategies that will ensure that the Bank’s interests are adequately protected.

Specific responsibilities and manning requirements are as follows:

• Implement aggressive recovery strategies to recover the Bank’s assets from recalcitrant and unwilling debtors within designated locations and SBU.
• Assist in the foreclosure of assets to secure all unpaid debts and facilitate the prompt disposal of debtor’s assets by the Bank
• Implement aggressive recovery strategies to recover the Bank’s assets from recalcitrant and unwilling debtors within designated locations and SBU.
• Appraise repayment proposals from the Bank’s debtors and adopt proactive actions that will ensure that the Bank’s interests are protected at all times.
• Follow up on all recovery cases in Court to ensure timely conclusion and adequate representation of the bank.
• Appraise the achievements of the Bank’s Recovery Agents & make performance recommendations to Management

Qualifications
Eligible candidates must possess:

• A good first degree in Law, Accounting, Computer Science or any other Social Science discipline
• Excellent relationship management and negotiations skills
• Sound knowledge of Banking operations, policies and procedures
• Intuitiveness with an ability to envisage potential challenges that may be posed by Customers

Eligibility:

• The opportunity is open to staff across the country as vacancies exist in Lagos, North, South West and South East.

 Note: This vacancy is open to staff on ABO to SBO grade for Recovery Officer and SBO-DM grade for Senior Recovery Officer’

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Requisition ID: 1800000Y
Schedule: Regular

Job Description

• Reporting to the Team Lead, Product Monitoring, the successful candidate will review the development, deployment and design of products to ensure they are in compliance with statutory & regulatory guidelines.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Identifying and improving on areas of compliance weaknesses, reviewing the integrity of compliance procedures by ensuring that controls designed to protect the Bank against non-compliance are effective.
• Strengthening the Bank’s regulatory space by developing strategies that will ensure new products or services offerings that are in line with the bank’s viewpoint and business direction
• Conducting regulatory compliance testing on all products within the bank to ensure they are still in compliance with relevant regulatory directives.

Qualifications

• Candidates vying for the Product Monitoring Officer role must possess a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in compliance or any related financial services area, 4 of which must be in a supervisory role and candidates must also have experience in the implementation and advisory of compliance programs and in AML and CFT Transaction Monitoring
• Product Monitoring Officer candidates possessing specialist knowledge in Anti-Money Laundering, Data Protection, Financial Markets and Fraud and Ethics would be highly desirable.
• In addition to the above, all candidates vying for any of the positions must possess the following:
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Excellent Communications skills
  • High ethical standards and integrity
  • Self-solution driven attributes, proactivity and an acceptable knowledge of the business environment

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Requisition ID: 1800000Z
Schedule: Regular

Job Description

• Reporting to the Team Lead, Techniques and Standards, the ideal candidate will provide an independent assessment of compliance quality with assurances that internal and regulatory processes are complied with.
• In addition, he/she will assist in categorizing, examining and presenting information that will aid the accuracy, efficiency and effectiveness of management decisions and monitoring requirements that are completed to measure compliance with banking regulations. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Identifying issues requiring improvement and potential themes, and identifying relevant corrective actions required and tracking through to completion.
• Conducting periodic reviews and updates of Compliance QAR policies and procedures
• Monitoring and reporting  on the progress of actions plans  of respective units in compliance functions and assessing their adequacy for effectively managing compliance risk.
• Acting as a catalyst for change and improvement in performance / quality
• Analyzing, classifying and presenting management with information to aid decision making purposes.

Qualifications

• Candidates vying for the Compliance Techniques and Standards Officer role  must possess a  minimum of 2 years’ experience working in compliance or related areas in financial services
• In addition to the above, all candidates vying for any of the positions must possess the following:
• Interpersonal skills
• Excellent Communications skills
• High ethical standards and integrity
• self-solution driven attributes, proactivity and an acceptable knowledge of the business environment
• Compliance Techniques and Standards Officer candidates must possess a first degree (or equivalent ) in either  Law, Banking & Finance or any related discipline