Job Description
Responsibilities:
Reporting:
- Oversee the development of accounting policies for the Bank’s subsidiaries in Africa and facilitate compliance, guided by policies from the Bank.
- Design and implement processes to ensure timely and accurate financial information to management for decision making.
- Oversee the monthly management reporting for the Bank’s African subsidiaries.
- Prepare annual and quarterly IFRS financial statements of the African businesses.
- Responsible for statutory financial reporting to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with respect to Bank’s African subsidiaries
- Oversee treasury products valuation and make input into tax computations for completeness and accuracy for the African subsidiaries.
- Coordinate statutory and regulatory audits for Bank’s African subsidiaries.
- Deliver the annual audited financial statements for Bank’s African businesses.
- Develop financial reports for group coordination and strategy purposes.
- Provision of financial input and formulation of the businesses’ operating plans/budgets
Capital Management:
- Embed capital management into the commercial banking groups’ strategic planning/ budgeting and forecasting processes, to support business growth and regulatory risk management.
- Drive the annual capital planning process across the Commercial Banking Group (CBG), including determining appropriate capital buffers and preparing dividend proposal.
- Set risk appetite limits for regulatory capital, economic capital and other risk metrics (with the various Heads of Risk) and monitoring the risk profile of the CBG.
- Conduct stress testing across all risk types, agreeing and monitoring action items cross the CBG.
- Oversee and document the annual ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process)
- Manage capital requirements across the CBG and arrange for capital injection where necessary.
- Responsibility for determining capital impact of significant transactions, new products and support new products across geographies.
- Optimize capital structure in order to maximize return on equity (ROE) of the CBG and its risk profile.
- Promote compliance with regulatory, Basel, etc requirements.
- Leading capital raise and structuring efforts as required to finance the capital needs of the Group in the most efficient manner.
Investments:
- Lead the sourcing of investments opportunities, working with other key stakeholders.
- Responsibility for regular investment portfolio performance management and risk analysis, and advise accordingly.
- Lead analytical efforts, that support capital investment decisions.
- Liaise with the various teams (structured finance team, legal, etc) on financing decisions.
- Lead efforts, working with internal stakeholders to make determinations in respect of countries to invest in, countries to exit, form of our capital investments (M&A, JV, etc)
- Track regulatory and macroeconomic actions across markets and proffer recommendations as required to support growth in presence countries and target markets.
Credit Rating:
- Key spokesperson in the engagement of credit rating agencies.
- Lead the Bank’s effort at achieving target credit ratings.
- Work with internal stakeholders to deliver the data/ information requests of credit rating institutions.
Others:
- Manage relationships with regulatory (central bank, securities and exchange commissions, etc), revenue mobilization and tax authorities, as relates to Bank’s African bank subsidiaries.
- Act as finance advisor to the executive in-charge of International Banking
Requirements: Qualification and Skill
- Minimum 12 – 17 Years experience.
- Bachelors Degree in Finance, Economics or any related field.
- CFA will be an added advantage.