Recent Recruitment Opportunities at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

 United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa's leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria UBA has grown to become a pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Transfer Pricing Specialist

Location: Marina, Lagos (Head Office)
Job Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To ensure UBA Group complies with the Transfer Pricing Regulations in all the countries where it operates.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the Country-by-Country reporting and ensure they are filed in line with regulatory requirements.
• Review annual TP documentation reports, (i.e. the master file, and local file for each entity), annual TP returns prepared for each country, and the group’s annual country-by-country reports.
• Ensure compliance with reporting and other requirements of transfer pricing regulations in all jurisdictions across the Group.
• Ensure transfer pricing documentation is up to date and meets relevant regulatory requirements in all the entities within the Group.
• Management and update of group-wide TP policies as required in line with the Group strategy and relevant legislation in all jurisdictions across the Group.
• Develop procedures for the effective implementation of the Group TP policy and monitor compliance (by group entities) with laid down TP policies.
• Develop pricing templates relevant to the application of transfer pricing policies for intragroup transactions.
• Ensure that transfer prices between the parties within the Group reflect the arm’s length rules as specified in the various tax legislations and coordinate the acceptance of those rules by the subsidiaries on the basis of equity and fairness to all stakeholders.
• Develop TP compliance processes, procedures and checklists as required for ongoing monitoring and execution of the group’s TP policies and discharge the group’s TP compliance obligations.
• Periodically assess the transfer pricing risks for entities across the Group and articulate recommendations to address those risks.
• Review the transfer pricing mechanism for any tax leakages and provide possible recommendations.
• Review transfer pricing regulations across the jurisdictions where the group operates and identify issues as they relate to the group.
• Develop and maintain relationships with tax authorities across the jurisdictions where the group operates.
• Work closely with entities under TP audit and coordinate responses and submissions to tax authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Prepare monthly accrual for transfer pricing charges to the subsidiaries.
• Review operating cost relating to transfer pricing services and allocate to the subsidiaries using the pricing template and appropriate allocation keys.
• Review and prepare quarterly invoice for head office charges to the subsidiaries.
• Liaise with CFO Africa and Head, Subsidiary Tax in respect of tax and TP issues and opportunities in each jurisdiction.
• Work with subsidiaries to resolve TP issues and seize tax opportunities.

Qualifications

• First Degree in Economics, Finance or other related fields
• Professional certifications in Transfer Pricing/Tax
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• OECD and UN Transfer Pricing Guidelines
• Nigerian Transfer Pricing Regulations, 2018
• Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital
• Analytical skills
• Business writing
• Statistical skills.

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have a good understanding of the OECD and UN Transfer Pricing Guideline Nigerian Transfer Pricing Regulations, 2018, Model Tax Convention on Income and on capital, excellent analytical skills etc.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
Sunday; 28th August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Team Lead, Unix Server and Backup Storage Administration

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To oversee the management and administration of the bank’s Unix servers, storage and backup servers and ensure 24 X 7 availability and 100% uptime.

Responsibilities

• Active team activity coordination, planning and incident resolutions.
• Review of daily backup report across all the backup domains and fix missed/failed backup scenarios.
• Administration of the backup and Restore activities across all the enterprise.
• Review and resolution of system alert from the storage and backup infrastructure.
• Co-ordinate data recovery and business continuity activities.
• Engage with OEM and business partners for technical support and maintenance.
• Executing assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Attend IT strategic meetings to deliberate and proffer recommendations to the business for operational efficiencies and strategy development considerations.
• Follow up with OEMs on issue resolutions.
• Review system activities/performance reports with OEMs.
• Carry out periodic firmware updates with the OEMs and business partners.
• Manage the file system monitoring process.
• Ensure that the daily hardware infrastructure checks and reports are carried out.
• Ensure proper inventory of all the UNIX related servers are properly done.
• Carry out performance appraisal for the UNIX administration team members.
• Health Checks and Monitoring & Administration of the VPLEX virtualized infrastructure.
• Manage Business data replication across production and DR site and review replication activities/logs.
• Provide guidance and performance/infrastructure recommendations.
• Manage system updates, patch applications and upgrades in accordance with change control approval.
• Unix (AIX) System Administration of IBM Servers and Enterprise Storage Server.
• Design, install and configure the UNIX servers to the specific need and requirements of the applications.
• Periodically tune and optimize UNIX systems servers and related components to achieve high availability and performance of the various business applications supported.
• Disk space and File System Management on IBM Servers.
• Perform all periodic maintenance activities on IBM AIX servers, including system software configuration, user account maintenance, file systems and volume groups management, patches updates etc.
• Manage and coordinate data recovery requests upon adequate approval.
• Ensure that backup tape media are properly documented and taken to offsite.
• Researching and Implementing new technologies for better data recovery.
• Administering Enterprise Storage Systems (DS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN) for IBM p-Series.
• Re-distribute/optimize storage utilisations on servers.
• Storage and backup infrastructure level-2 support, troubleshooting and reporting.
• Coordinate Day-to-day operations of the enterprise local and distributed storage.
• Monitor and manage data replication to the disaster recovery centre.
• Manage the entire user request for backup, restore, archival and storage needs and provide a suitable solution to meet their needs.
• On-board servers for backup requests line with SLA.
• Provide guidance and support for Archival request.
• Conduct administrative task on the storage and backup infrastructure.
• Carry out user creation and maintenance on infrastructure.
• Provide reports for management and audit compliance.
• Compile reports in respect of capacity utilization for management decision.
• Draft memo, MEPs for procurement and follow through with the approval, implementation, and payment.
• Carryout appraisal of team members in line with policy.
• Maintain filing systems both electronic and hard copy.

Qualifications

• A First Degree in IT related field
• A minimum of 7 years of related experience
• Related IT Certifications will be an added advantage

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have extensive and strong knowledge of maintaining IBM Servers and Enterprise Storage Server built on Unix and AIX environments. A talented and forward-thinking individual who is solution-driven should have extensive experience troubleshooting, monitoring, and administering servers and storage applications etc., as well as ensuring 100% uptime.
• The prospective candidate must be able to support and manage projects on Unix and IBM servers as well as related applications.
• The talented, forward-thinking, solution-driven individual should be comfortable with the day-to-day administration of Enterprise Storage Systems (DS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN) for IBM p-Series and management activities and thrive with tight deadlines and changing needs. Banking experience will be an added advantage.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Banking Operations, Policies and Procedures.
• Strong Unix skills, UNIX (AIX, LINUX, CENTOS) OS Platform.
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Effective Interpersonal and Communication skills
• Good Leadership skills and people management
• Windows Operating System Platform.
• Application Aware Backups.
• SharePoint, Oracle and SQL Database
• Exchange Mailbox
• VMWARE, HYPER-V, CITRIX, AZURE and AMAZON (AWS) platforms
• Converged Infrastructure.
• Storage Virtualization (IBM, VMAX, NETAPP, DellEMC Unity, VPLEX etc)
• Server Virtualization (VBLOCK, VxBlock, VxRail etc).
• Network Virtualization.
• Procedure Documentation.
• Project Management.
• Excellent interpretation of business needs into operational requirements.
• Good Understanding of Infrastructure Administration and Management.
• Nigerian Banking Industry.
• Knowledge of CBN’s policies and the business environment.
• SAN/NAS Administration and Management.
• STORAGE Administration and Management.
• Data Backup & Recovery Skills.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Skills.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets, so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Job Requirements:

• Proactive, Vmware, Disaster Recovery, Centos, Leadership Skill, Ability To Work Under Pressure, Azure, Vmax, Etap, Backups, Visio, Relationship Management, System Software, Sharepoint, Compliance, Virtualization, Perl, Citrix, Banking, Vault, Researching, Leadership, Linux, Excel, People Management, Communication Skill, Listening, Aix, Unix, Documentation, Supervision, Sql, Project Management, Technical Support, Oracle, Software Configuration, Work Independently

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Regional Control Officer

Locations: Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Port Harcourt - Rivers, Bayelsa, Maiduguri - Borno, Benue, Jos - Plateau, Kogi, Kano, Ebonyi, Bauchi and Sokoto
Employment Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To ensure the business office operations are in line with the Bank’s internal policies, and regulatory policies.

Responsibilities

• Assist business offices with compliance and regulatory issues, and provide counseling when required.
• Improve control and awareness culture in the business offices.
• Ensure that the ambience of the business office is maintained and kept customer-friendly at all times.
• Monitor and ensure that open items in the GL accounts are current and reflect the true nature of the products recorded in them.
• Ensure integrity of transactions in business offices, and report deviations/anomalies immediately.
• Identify control lapses/policy breaches through control activities for process improvement/policy amendments.
• Escalate cases of fraud, customer complaints, and staff disciplinary issues to the Area Control Manager, or responsible department.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and ACA or ACCA.
• Our ideal candidates must have knowledge of financial accounting and audit with at least 4 years experience from a bank, audit, or consulting firm.

Knowledge Required:

• Good knowledge of accounting and auditing.
• Basic financial knowledge.
• Knowledge of the banking sector, trends, and policies of financial regulators in Nigeria – CBN, NDIC.
• Knowledge of the UBA’s banking policies, processes, and procedures.
• Relationship management - should be able to maintain a customer-friendly disposition at all times.

Skills Required:

• Supervisory, and Investigation skills.
• Attention to detail.
• High level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Ability to maintain a high level of awareness at all times.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Problem solver.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity, and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
15th September, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Market Risk Analyst

Location: Nigeria

Job Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• Measurement, monitoring and controlling of the market risks to which the Group is exposed.
• Implement consistent Market Risk Management policies and procedures across the Group.
• Minimize Position and Trading Losses
• Achieve high levels of Customer Satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Scan financial markets for relevant data to positions held by the bank, both financial and regulatory.
• Collect internal data for the head office and subsidiaries through the Bank’s operating systems.
• Data collection from various market intelligence reports that impact the Bank’s position.
• Collect bank data to identify the Bank’s market positions.
• Collect market data with reference to the various positions in order to be able to make comparisons.
• Prepare daily reports which show the position of the Bank, highlighting areas of concern and areas requiring improvement.
• Monitor set limits for compliance for the bank.
• Circulate reports to concerned parties and escalation of issues where the need arises.
• Prepare other Market Risk Reports.
• Prepare revaluation report for both the Held for Trading and Available for Sale portfolio of the Bank.
• Prepare Value-at-Risk Reports for the bank.
• Prepare Sensitivity Analysis for Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange portfolios – bank.
• Monitor deals consummated by treasury.
• Prepare Derivatives Valuation Report for the bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of GALCO Reports – bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of Group Risk Management Report – bank.
• Provide support in the preparation of Market Risk Snapshots for the Chairman – bank.
• Provide support in the Preparation of Board Reports – bank.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in any field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge & Skill Required:

• Basic accounting
• Understand banking operations
• Good grasp of balance sheet mapping
• Above-average database management abilities
• Highly numerate

Job Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have knowledge of accounting, and banking operations functions and be highly numerate.
• Must be analytical with good oral and written communication, and have good database management skills.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Team Lead, MIS Data Analytics

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To provide timely and periodic MIS Reports on key performance indices for business segments across the Group and insights for MPR sessions for Executive Management.
• To support the development of suitable targets for the achievement of the bank’s corporate financial and non-financial goals and objectives.
• Provide KPI data and technical support for annual appraisals. Analysis or insights to support decision-making by Executive Management.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytics models and insights to understand patterns and behaviour of customers, segments, channels and products in order to drive efficiency and revenue.
• Automate reports and processes within Group Strategy & Performance Management to make for efficiency and improved customer experience.
• Execute MIS data cleansing and governance activities.
• Customer, segment, channels and product profitability reporting.
• Manage and maintain common performance language and definitions that are universal across the Group.
• Next-generation on business reporting and digital dashboards:
• My Customer Performance Dashboards.
• My Business Performance Dashboards.
• SBU portfolio sizing and analytics vis-à-vis PCM & RM manning requirements & configurations.
• Supervise, lead, and motivate team members to enable them to deliver on their KPIs and Key Success Factor (KSF).

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in any related field 
• Master's Degree in a relevant field or relevant professional certification (CFA, ACCA, ACA, ACIB etc.) will be an added advantage 
• Minimum of 4-8 years of experience in finance and performance management in the banking industry.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Business and Financial analysis 
• Performance Management 
• Excellent interpretation of the bank’s aspirations into measurable details 
• Good Understanding of the Nigerian Banking Industry. 
• Knowledge of CBN policies and the business environment 
• Excellent oral and communications skill
• Advanced interpersonal and conflict management skills.
• Excellent listening skill
• Leadership and motivation.

Candidate's Profile: 

• We are looking for a candidate who has excellent listening, oral & communication skills and an accounting background, who would participate in the bank’s drive to attract more investments from identified target groups. One who also has a good understanding of financial markets.

What we expect from you:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What you should expect from us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Credit Monitoring Officer

Location: 
Nigeria
Employment Type: Permanent

Job Objective(s)

• To emphasize and protect high Credit Quality while encouraging and increasing the Bank’s market share without compromising risk assets quality.

Responsibilities

• Review of approved credits for quality, performance and compliance with approved terms and conditions and credit policy.
• Monitoring of special conditions in credit facilities and escalation of exceptions / non-compliance.
• Identification of deteriorating accounts for Prudential Classification and transfer to Credit Remedial/Recovery.
• Ensure that limits are monitored, incomes, fees, and maturing repayments anniversary charges are captured.
• Detection and escalation of unauthorised credits.
• Implementation of policy-driven credit related sanctions.
• Preparation of exception reports & imminent maturity reports.
• Monthly performance review of the bank’s exposure to the power sector and energy sector.
• Review of the bank’s contingent liabilities.
• Identification of warning signals and flagging likely problems before they crystallize.
• Regular rendition of weekly, monthly and quarterly exceptions reports to Group Head Credit Monitoring Head Office.
• All other activities as delegated by the Directorate Head.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative subjects (Accounting, Economics, Bus. Admin, Banking & Finance etc.)
• Post Graduate Qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years of banking experience out of which 5 should be in Credit Risk Management.

Candidate's Profile:

• Our ideal candidate must have knowledge of Credit Risk management in banking. Possess analytical skills and interpersonal skills.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Computer literate
• Ability to demonstrate initiative
• Good analytical skills
• Good interpersonal skills

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with the ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain an excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
26th August, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Relationship Manager

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Permanent

Description

• We are looking to hire candidates who have knowledge of banking operations and excellent marketing and selling skills with a minimum of 5 years’ Relationship Manager experience in all our branches across in Nigeria.

Job Objective(s)

• To establish and maintain positive customer relationships towards the growth revenue for the bank.

Responsibilities

• Approach customers with the aim of winning new business,
• Meet with existing customers to strengthen business relationships with a view to increase financial growth of the bank.
• Aggressively market the bank’s products to ensure favorable market response and optimum build-up of revenue.
• Follow up customers with dormant accounts, convince to resume dealings with the bank.
• Implement marketing strategies / programs laid out by the bank to boost profit.
• Listen to customer requirements and present appropriately to make a sale.
• Achieve set deposit targets / contributions by acquiring business / investment deals from private, public, individuals and corporates.
• Prepare documentation on the creation of risk assets to increase business office profitability.
• Sell / cross-sell and upsell the banks products.
• Market the brand.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the business manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in any related field.
• 5-7 years relationship manager experience from a commercial bank.

Skills Required:

• Ability to evaluate needs of customers, and determine what products or services would best serve those needs.
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written.
• Must be strong, tenacious and persuasive.
• Strong selling / marketing skills.
• Must be self-driven, and have a passion for marketing.
• Good relationship management skills.
• Confident and possess excellent networking skills.

Knowledge Required:

• Good knowledge of the products and services of the bank.
• Basic knowledge of finance, accounting and economics.
• Business development and acquisition.
• Banking operations, policies, and procedures.
• Excellent knowledge of selling / marketing.
• Knowledge of current business trends and CBN regulatory laws.

What We Expect From You:

• High degree of professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Highly organised, proactive, ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks assigned.
• Team player with ability to work under pressure and ability to work with a wide variety of people and maintain excellent business relationship.
• High sense of confidentiality and discreteness.

What You Should Expect From Us:

• Our corporate culture is defined by our core values. We do not just train our people to be the best in the job, we also offer encouragement, recognition, and rewards.
• Whatever level you are at in your career, we offer plenty of opportunities and support to build a rewarding career at UBA.
• Here in UBA, our employees are our greatest assets and so we built a recognition and reward system that boosts productivity and enhances staff retention, instituting a culture of meritocracy.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online