Barclays Bank Uganda Jobs – Scheme Postings and Disbursement Officer

Organisation: Barclays
Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Manager
Disbursements & Collections Postings.
About Barclays
Africa: 
Barclays
Africa encompasses Barclays Global Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, and
Barclaycard operations in 10 countries organised in four geographic areas:
North Africa (Egypt), East and West Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and
Kenya),  Southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and Indian Ocean
(Mauritius and Seychelles).
Barclays
Africa serves its 2.8m customers through a network of 573 branches and service
centres providing a variety of traditional financial products including retail
mortgages, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending,
credit cards, treasury and investments.
Job Summary: The Scheme
Postings and Disbursement Officer  will be responsible for credit
approved loans onto Customer loan accounts  to contribute to 
business growth in line with the Barclay’s policies and procedures and
post  collection payments received  to achieve impairment Targets.
Key Duties &
Responsibilities:
1. Crediting approved
loan applications(40%):
  • Confirm
    loan details or type loan i.e. secured, takeover or unsecured.
  • Create
    loan account for loans that are to be disbursed.
  • Disburse
    all loans applications that meet the required criteria and update the
    system and the CAM report with stamp signature.
  • Adhere to
    timelines for crediting secured loans after security perfection
    certificate and safe to lend documentation have been received.
  • For new
    loans check for salary credits to ensure that salaries are received
    through Barclays before loan account has been opened.
  • For
    government Loans, confirm affordability checks have been done and reserved
    amount still holds on the PSU system.
  • Confirm
    that the outgoing RTGs amount is in line with the outstanding amount on
    the loan statement for takeovers.
  • Confirm
    that the outgoing RTGs amount is in line with the balance on the top up
    for all existing borrowers.
  • Forward
    all applications that do not meet the requirements to the receipt desk for
    outbound courier after updating the system (including loan tracker).
  • Remit
    insurance premium and stamp duty for the month to the insurer and URA
    respectively.
  • Conduct
    post disbursement call over to ensure accuracy of all information captured
    during the loan processing chain (standing order amount, insurance fees,
    interest rates, loan duration, amount borrowed,etc) using the Loans
    disbursed and the insurance premium.
  • File loan
    applications that have been disbursed for future reference.
 
2. Data Capture (35%):   
  • Create
    loan account for loans that are to be disbursed.
  • Disburse
    all loans applications that meet the required criteria and update the
    system and the CAM report with stamp signature.
  • Scan
    Reconciled RTGS on a daily and have these sent through by 3.00p.m for on
    ward processing by your authorizer.
  • Receive
    payment schedules and instructions from the collections team whenever
    posting.
  • Confirm
    that totals on the payment instructions and schedules attached tally
    before posting.
  • Ensure
    that the signatures have been verified on all authorized
    instructions/cheques before proceeding to post.
  • Return all
    Payment instructions that don’t meet requirements to your Supervisor for
    correction.
  • Receive
    duly signed collection payments instructions from the Team leader for
    Posting.
  • Ensure
    accurate and timely posting of daily and month end collections to achieve
    the RCT Impairment target.
  • Ensure all
    scheme loan cheques received by 3.00 p.m are posted same day.
  • Ensure
    that clearance cheques, drafts are put on schedule and delivered to Sybrin
    same day by 4.00 p.m.
  • Ensure
    proper filling of every documents; loan files /sheets processed by self
    for purposes of records management and a clean audit report.
  • Identify
    any schedules with items not posted due to closed, invalid and missing
    accounts whenever they arise to your supervisor.
  • Ensure
    loans to re-align and write-off are posted off with in 48 hours.
  • Ensure
    loans to delink, place holds and lifting are posted same day received.
  • Ensure all
    over draft applications are processed on time and comply with OD
    processing checklist.
  • Achieve a
    satisfactory Audit Rating.
3.
Control (10%)
  • Ensure
    reconciliation of the General Ledgers if any is assigned to you.
  • Confirm
    that the amount credited to the customers loan account is the same as that
    on the loan schedule from the companies.
  • Ensure
    that all necessary debits off the scheme loan GL have been effected into
    the individual loan accounts
  • Forward
    all suspicious transactions to the fraud team for investigation.
  • Conduct
    snap checks as assigned by line manager.
  • Ensure
    safe custody of documents, tools and pass words to all systems at all
    times.
  • Ensure
    accuracy of information entered in the system and standard templates at
    all stages of the process.
  • Ensure
    reconciliation of the General Ledgers if any is assigned to you.
4.
Call over (5%)
  • Review
    transactions on Scheme Suspense GL To confirm any RTGS To be sent through
    for Processing on a daily.
  • Print out
    the general ledger statement (scheme loan suspense account) and perform a
    call over against payment schedules when assigned to do this.
  • Identify
    anomalies (missing account numbers, invalid or closed accounts) and advise
    your Team leader for prompt rectification by the originators.
  • Rectify
    errors related to wrong postings of payments and loan disbursement
     within the system promptly.
5.
Customer service (5%)
  • Respond to
    queries relating to  the scheme posting and loan crediting process
    from various stake holders with the set timelines.
  • Adhere to
    timelines within the service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure efficiency
    and quick turn around time (TAT) in loan processing.
6.
Contribution to the team (5%)
  • Share best
    practice and any red flags that are a result of the scheme and
    disbursement process.
  • Support
    other members of Credit Operations Unit when required to ensure business
    continuity and achievement of business targets.
Qualifications, Skills
& Experience:
  • The applicant
    should possess General banking Knowledge.
  • Know your
    customer (KYC) standards.
  • Good Customer
    service, TCF and complaints handling.
  • Good understanding
    the Barclays end to end retail lending process.
  • Knowledge
    of Barclays Retail lending policies.
  • Knowledge
    of finance or accounting.
  • Sanctions
    and Anti money laundering.
  • Information
    security awareness,
  • Records
    management.
  • Knowledge
    on Data privacy.
  • Fraud
    awareness.
  • Performance
    development.
  • Barclays
    retail lending policies and end to end processes.
  • Product
    knowledge (Retail Asset products)
  • Flexcube
    system.
  • PSU
    payment solutions.
  • Credit
    analysis.
  • Transact
    SM
  • Scheme
    Posting and Disbursement Process
How to Apply:
If
you feel challenged by any of the above positions, and believe you can deliver
on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your application letter, current
curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic certificate to our recruitment
website detail below:
Barclays
is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on
merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and
gender.
For
queries contact us on 0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline:  16th December,
2013

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