Job Description
Job Summary
- Responsible for executing the bank's treasury function. To efficiently oversee the Bank’s treasury sales, drive business growth, mobilise deposits, and manage liquidity. Manage a team that performs a wide range of job duties and responsibilities.
- The position is located in Lagos, Nigeria, plus other locations as required
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Finance:
- Monitoring and managing the bank’s liquidity.
- Analysing and reporting various scenarios and risks
- Forecasting of medium and long-term funding and hedging requirements.
- Daily cash management.
- Debt facilities management.
- Drive the profitability of the unit, monitoring income generation
- Oversee the management of the bank’s Investment Funds.
- Maintaining a low weighted average cost of funds.
Sales/Business Development:
- Generate, lead, and mobilise significant deposits across the liquidity matrix.
- Mobilisation of high-volume deposits
- Develop strategies for the growth of the Bank and the achievement of sales targets
- Submit proposals to the Management to launch new Investment Funds and treasury Products & Services.
- Evaluating and reviewing opportunities in the equity market and recommending appropriate opportunities to the management
- Review and support branches and units in identifying deposit opportunities and cross-selling of services across the bank.
Relationship/ Stakeholder Management:
- Supporting the Bank’s month-end process where necessary.
- Liaising with senior management across the organisation.
- Maintain relationships with the bank’s corporate customers.
- Authorise other groups, units and branches on acceptable deposit rates
Process Management:
- Interest rate risk management and development of risk mitigation strategies.
- Develop a policy & procedure manual for treasury & investment operations with adequate controls incorporated.
- Implement measures for enhancing the processes relating to client profitability tracking, etc.
Reporting:
- Preparation of the Board and monthly ALCO report for management review.
- Preparation of weekly gap analysis for planning and decision-making.
- Review and prepare MIS reports related to treasury and investments required by the management.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of a First Degree in a relevant discipline, preferably in Finance/ Investments/Banking.
- A Master’s Degree would be an added advantage.
- Relevant professional certifications and/or a second degree.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience managing a Treasury Function.
- Sound understanding of accounting principles.
Competencies:
- Knowledge of a mortgage bank’s structure, policies, processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of the banking industry.
- Asset and liability management.
- Cash management.
- Investment management and analysis
- Knowledge of derivatives trading.
- Knowledge of treasury, Sales and operations.
- Knowledge of financial markets.
- Money market trading.
Skills:
- Business environment analysis.
- Credit analysis.
- Deal structuring.
- Financial modelling.
- Financial statement analysis.
- Forecasting skills.
- Gap analysis and management.
- Liquidity management.
- Process improvement.
- Project management.
- Proposal writing.
- Risk management.
- Analytical skills, ability to use MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).