Fresher Business Banking Assistant Jobs – Stanbic Bank

Job Title:        Business Banking Assistant
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: City Branch, Kampala, Uganda
Job ID: 20589
About US:
Stanbic
Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is
in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading
banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading
banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking
group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest
bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of
banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking
(PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The Business Banking Assistant will offer support
to the Business Banker in managing the Business Banking portfolio for the branch
including but not limited to new account processing and account maintenance.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Service:
  • Adhere to the service standards and provide
    excellent customer service
  • Attend to Business customer queries,
    complaints, referrals within set timelines and escalate those that cannot
    be resolved to relevant departments
  • Customer retention through a comprehensive
    on-boarding process, relationship management and portfolio management
  • Open business customer accounts on the system
    within agreed time lines and in accordance with set procedures
  • Carry out a needs analysis for business
    customers within the portfolio and match with an appropriate banking
    solution
  • Manage loan processing including but not
    limited to preparing loan applications, capturing loans on CRB and
    generating reports; scanning, uploading and monitoring loan applications
    on the DVU tracker
  • Educate customers regarding the parameters
    and routine procedures governing commercial products, solutions and
    service offerings
2. Sales:
  • Adhere to the Sales High 5 standards
  • Generate leads and provide them to the
    Business Banker and other sales staff as appropriate
  • Contribute to the achievement of sales and
    customer retention targets by constantly monitoring the status of existing
    accounts
  • Regularly analyze existing customer data to
    identify business opportunities for additional facilities and/or solutions
  • Cross-sell banking products to customers
    within the portfolio
3. Risk and Control:
  • Adhere to the KYC policies and guidelines for
    both account opening and loan origination documentation
  • Maintain account opening documents and all
    records in the portfolio in accordance to set procedure (i.e. locked away
    and properly filed)
  • Adhere to operational and credit risk
    management controls, policies and procedures.
  • Effect the opening and processing of account
    related documentation by following up the status of transactions/account
    applications/queries or requests with the relevant internal support areas
    through to conclusion
  • Regularly check for completeness and
    authenticity of loan documents for executive customers
  • Address audit/risk issues raised by auditors
    within the portfolio by agreed timelines and as per laid down procedures
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Stanbic Bank Business
    Banker job opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies
    or a related field from a recognized university
  • A minimum of two years sales experience in
    branch banking
  • Previous experience in credit origination
  • Previous experience running a small business
    an added advantage
  • Good knowledge of Business Banking value
    proposition
  • Understanding of financial statements
  • Sound knowledge of the bank’s practices,
    policies and procedures
  • Knowledge of the risk management and credit
    principles
  • Understand the inter-dependencies between
    Personal and Business Banking
  • Knowledge of Service standards
  • Working knowledge of the Core banking system
  • Good knowledge of commercial business banking
    products and prices
  • Knowledge of competitor products and services
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Excellent selling skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good negotiation skills
  • Good numerical aptitude
  • Good problem solving skills
  • Basic computer skills
How to Apply:
All
candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups,
Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by
visiting Link below.
Deadline: 24th January 2017
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