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• Role includes team leadership, staff
  motivation, development and support.
• This role is also responsible for the
  provision of excellent customer service, which includes ensuring that any
  technological developments are understood and used to best effect.
• Implement governance, risk, compliance and
  control within card Issuing.
• Management of P&L to achieve agreed
  targets
• Develop products to enhance the
  proposition and achieve operating stability

• Ensuring knowledge of developing
  technologies is kept up to date and implemented as appropriate.
• Determine, develop and implement strategies
  and tactics to achieve/exceed targets and combat competitive threats.
• Make value based recommendations on
  whether or not to enter new markets, or develop new products and services.

• Stakeholder
  management of key personnel within Barclays Bank of Uganda
• Stakeholder
  Manage Barclays Africa  key stakeholders and projects to ensure
  delivery to agreement obligations and business programmes are delivered to
  meet business goals in Uganda
• Establish
  and manage relationships with key external stakeholders including Card
  Schemes, local regulators, other banks, suppliers and local industry
  bodies.
• Obtain
  mutually acceptable business and strategic solutions to issues raised or
  escalated within the relationship

• Ensure effective and efficient deployment
  of staff with overall responsibility for motivation, direction, control,
  training and co-ordination of use.
• Ensure Succession Planning is in place and
  updated to reflect the growth and internal changes that the African Centre
  has and will go through

• Understand technical/regulatory matters
  affecting the business. Ultimate responsibility for the continuing
  compliance and use of such matters
• Assimilation of plans both strategic and
  annual covering the  Credit card business  with
  responsibility for turning plans into reality
• Ensure Governance, Compliance, Risk and
  Control are implemented and adhered to meet Group Standards by Centre.
  Staff at all levels to be clear on what is expected of them. Any new
  regulatory or Group requirements are implemented and reviewed throughout
  Barclaycard in a timely fashion.

• The candidate should
  possess several years  experience within similar roles
• Excellent numeric
  skills will be required to obtain, prepare, assess and assimilate very
  complex and detailed information
• Excellent People
  Management Skills
• Strong Negotiation
  Skills
• Excellent
  interpersonal Skills
• PC Skills
• Essential to be innovative
  and pro-active
• Experience of working
  in a multi-cultural environment
• Employee
  representative bodies
• The applicant should have
  a  good understanding of Barclaycard
  products/policies/plans/objectives in order to pro-actively embrace
  systems/procedure changes within the function
• Will require extensive
  knowledge of the impact of short, medium and long-term plans of the
  business and the effects of them on other functions, in order to implement
  the plans in the most effective and holistic manner.
• Will be required to
  have an understanding of local, as well as, European statutes that relate
  to role holders function. The most important of these will be Visa and
  MasterCard regulations.
• Is likely to be
  personally responsible for compliance within function. Other statutes may
  include: Law relating to employment of People, Health and Safety at work, Money
  Laundering regulations, Data Protection Act, KYC and  FSA  
• Good working knowledge
  of IT and telephony systems
•  An understanding of the
  credit card industry
•  Satisfies the
  FSA criteria For An approved person, both initially And ongoing
• A proven successful
  track record of management experience at Junior, Middle and senior Level,
  with proven examples of the successful Management of resources such as
  budgets, people and premises in an operational area.
• Management experience
  in a multi-cultural environment
• Experience of remote
  site management within a matrix management model
• Experience of working
  in with other areas of the business in order to obtain an understanding of
  Commercial, Optimisation, Front-end Lending practices and the operational
  requirements of the business.

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